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"6 reasons to encourage enterprise conversations with collaborative platforms": Try to tell a manager, who's been fighting againtst chattings that are synonymous with wasted time and bad productivity for years, that his staff now need to have conversations, and, even worse, that his role is to stimulate these conversations….and look at the manager's face

Amplified is a not-for-profit organization that uses social media to enable and encourage community participation around events, conferences and public conversations. The Amplified team facilitates and documents the sharing of ideas, opinions and resources, and aggregates this content online to enable the conversations from all parties to continue and spread.

Kristen defined six possible roles for museums on the Internet: 1) Filter - find and share relevant, accurate, trustworthy information 2) Curator - become a one stop shop for primary and secondary source material on specific topics 3) Node in a network - package information to live beyond your walls, monitor conversations around your content 4) Community builder - create your own network, be involved in online conversations 5) Lifesaver - provide portable information when and where people need it most 6) Tour Guide - connect your content to the real world

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act, about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Authors Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak-Leonard pack a lot into 40 pages--an argument for the rise of active arts engagement, a framework for thinking about ways to actively involve audiences, and lots of case studies. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation.

Our exciting plan is to transform the Ask a Curator website into a platform where engagement between curators and members of the public can expand and continue.The Ask a Curator website will be a platform for conversation between museums and the public. Anyone can log into Ask a Curator and ask participating museums a question.

Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors-especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered. We welcome comments, feedback and corrections.

The Conversation Prism: Darstellung von social media Anwendungen

"Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web."

"One of the best things that came out of this year's Museums and the Web conference in Philly was an "unconference" session I organized around re-thinking and re-imagining what museum websites could/should be. It was a great conversation, with lots of interesting viewpoints. I hope to do a longer post about this in the next few days, but for now, here's the video of a talk I gave at Ignite Smithsonian a few days ago that tries to get at the root of the problem I'm trying to identify."

MuseumMobile is a forum for conversations about mobile interpretation - media & technology - for museums and cultural sites.

RS combines research tools with social networking applications such as forums, wikis and blogs. The research tools are launched from a custom toolbar embedded into the collaboration application itself and therefore they are easily incorporated into a project's workflow . Essentially these research tool 'plug-ins' provide an additional layer of functionality so that data and digital assets can be searched and edited while engaging in more informal collaboration and communication activity. Conversely, it is the collaboration activity that creates opportunities for more formal data recording.

Online community and social media are hot areas for business these days, as companies recognize the Internet's potential to deepen customer relationships, share knowledge and strengthen teams. In the nonprofit sector, relationships have always been the key currency:

The Resurrection of the Amateur Expert Of all the conversations instigated by CFM so far, the one arousing the greatest passion is about the changing role of authority.