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I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

Get inspired by the talk of Jonathan Harris at the 2007 Pop! Tech event - educative and entertaining, amusing and touching at the same time. Jonathan is the creator of inspiring and playful applications like "We Feel Fine" or "I Want You To Want Me".

Director of audiences and media at London's Tate galleries talks about communicating with public in digital era The audience is completely changing, said Marc Sands, director of Audiences and Media at Britain's Tate, just as it was when Tate Modern opened in 2000.

This afternoon I am going to try and answer this question, What can social media do for oral history. I am going to look at a few examples which caught my attention and talk about what we can learn from these projects.

Museums are increasingly using technology to reach an audience outside their walls. And I, of course, am a complete evangelist for new media and for institutions adapting as fast as possible to changes new technologies are bringing to our world. But when the time came to talk to the museum heads about using social media tools to expand their audiences and enrich the museum-going experience, I found myself oddly reticent.

"Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. We invite you to capture the stories and images of the country today. Go out, look around, talk to people, and contribute to this re-mapping of the United States."

"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."

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.

Seit 2007 betreiben wir KybernEthik 1 in Second Life. Viel haben wir gelernt in den letzten Jahren, zum Beispiel über sinnvolle und weniger sinnvolle Architektur in Second Life, Usability usw. usf. Im Laufe der Zeit wandelte sich unsere Insel immer wieder. Nun haben wir, u.a. in Vorbereitung auf die stART09 ein Redesign vorgenommen. Und Michael hatte mir von dem folgenden Video gar nichts gesagt (Tz!). Hier das aktuelle Video:

[...] ... her audio guide featured something a little more lively. "Now, let's talk about this painting sexually," a man's deep voice said. "What do you see in this painting?"

Vortag von Helge David zum Thema Museen und Web 2.0