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"Its short history is this: I worked on it for several years, acquired a high-powered agent, had some brushes with major publishers, then, crickets. Way back when, say, a dozen years ago, a single editor could acquire a book, but today a whole board is usually required to sign off on a project, especially when a big advance is involved. Worse yet, the traditional book-publishing business has fallen on hard times, with layoffs and news that vaunted old publishers such as Houghton Mifflin have literally put the freeze on acquisitions. In short, it's ugly out there, particularly for new fiction writers. "

People & Participation is based on Involve's successful book by the same name which was launched in 2005. The book provides a useful summary of participatory methods and practice but given the number of methods and speed of the development of new methods it is impossible for a printed publication to stay accurate for long

This new book brings together papers given at a recent major conference jointly organised by the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University (the world's first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication) and Liberty Science Center (the New Jersey-New York City region's largest education resource).

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"A recently launched service in Germany called PaperC (Twitter: @Paper_c) looks like it might become a pretty handy resource for students and researchers. It is an online library of commonly used textbooks for studying. You can read all of them online for free, but you can also download PDFs, make notes and bookmarks, and copy and paste quotes. The latter functions cost something, but not much. A PDF of 10 pages costs 1 Euro. The idea is not that it replaces books, as such, but replaces the photocopier. So far they have 2,799 books in their library."

the social_network Librarything is an easy quality catalogue.  "librarything connects you to people who read what you do"

Managing Growinng: A Cultural Heritage Web Presencea: practical guide to how to run a cultural heritage web presence - is now available to order from Amazon

Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration.

SmarthistoryTravel apps are for curious, thoughtful travelers who want expert art analysis delivered in a casual, engaging style. Smarthistory brings the artists, patrons, and their worlds to life. Join us as we reveal the meaning and beauty of Rome in a way that the standard guide-books can't.

Socialnomics09 - May 05, 2010 - Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics that are hard to ignore. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman.

o one can have a "museum experience" without stepping foot in a museum. Let's just get that out of the way. It doesn't matter how digitally precise your online version of "The Forge of Vulcan" is, tilting your head to draw the light across the raised ridges of paint is not an electronically duplicable experience. That doesn't mean digital art collections don't have great value. After all, art books do. So here are half a dozen great digital art collections you can visit to inspire your own trip, or your own thinking about art, or to remind yourself or to learn a bit for no other reason than digital art is better by far than no art at all. In order to keep from wandering off the path never to be seen again, let's focus on Western painting.

SPEAKERS Josephine Bosma (nl): Acceptable Loss. Tales of Life and Death in the Digital RealmThis paper is based on an essay from my book. It is a case study and comparison of two projects in the digital domain that deal with memory and conservation. Anne Laforet (fr) Net Art and Preservation. For Museums and ArtistsArtists have appropriated the Internet as soon as it became public to experiment new artistic, social and technical practices.

Trying to fix an organization's content problems by installing a content management system (CMS) is like trying to save a marriage by booking a holiday. We know that a successful web project needs a content strategy-but when it comes to the CMS, we stop thinking strategically. Despite all the talk about user-centered design, we rarely consider the user experience of the editorial team-the people who implement the content strategy. We don't design a CMS, we install it.

Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook's Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media addresses how curators and art audiences behave in light of digital/new media art, as well as how we can begin to conceptualise and work with these emergent behaviours.

Von der Projektidee bis zum bleibenden Ausstellungserlebnis: Das Buch Wegweiser Evaluation führt den Leser in die Welt der besucherorientierten Ausstellungsentwicklung. Als Handbuch und Leitfaden gibt es zahlreiche praktische Hinweise und Tipps zur Qualitätsentwicklung und -verbesserung von Ausstellungen. Dabei greift es unter anderem auf modellhafte Förderbeispiele der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt zurück. Neben einem umfassenden Überblick erprobter Evaluationsformen werden im ersten Teil des Buches konkrete Einsatzfelder und Anwendungsformen vorgestellt. Das Spektrum reicht dabei von der Basis-Evaluation über die Vorab-Evaluation, die formative und summative Evaluation bis zur Weiterentwicklungs-Evaluation. Der zweite Teil bietet Checklisten und Übersichten für den Einsatz der Evaluationsformen, Kriterien zur Auswahl eines geeigneten Evaluators sowie Hinweise zum Briefing. Weiterführende Literatur und Empfehlungen zu ausgewählten Themen rund um Evaluation und Ausstellung erg änzen die Informationen.

"My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: "Daddy's book." She was holding my Kindle electronic reader." Dazu auf ReadWrite: "Virtual worlds like ToonTown and Club Penguin are particularly popular with kids right now. In a recent New York Times article, University of California cultural anthropologist Mizuko Ito claimed that "children who play these games would see less of a distinction between their online friends and real friends." He also said that these types of online virtual worlds make kids "more likely to participate actively in their own entertainment" - in comparison to us oldies who grew up watching TV from the couch." (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kids_on_the_web_virtual_worlds.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&)utm_content=Google+Reader

A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid-perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero's journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that's what a story used to be, and that's how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.

(Hinweis von Henner-Fehr) jim Richardson schreibt ein Social Media Handbook für Museen: Museuem Marketing: "Social Media Handbook for Museums" ...what problems do you have with developing social media for your institution? What questions should a book like this answer?