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Registration Opens for Maximizing the Returns of Social Networks for Your Museum

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The New Media Consortium and the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation are pleased to announce that registration for Maximizing the Returns of Social Networks for Your Museum, a special day-long event to be held June 29-30, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, is now open.

For full details, see http://www.nmc.org/2010-midea-socialnetworks
To register now, see http://www.nmc.org/2010-midea-socialnetworks/register

Social Networking and Museums
With the emergence of new technologies and platforms many museums have rushed to create Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and Flickr pages. Rather than wait for visitors to create content about their collections, museums need to be present and proactive on social media platforms -- but how best to do this?

Connect@NMC: Jordan Schwartz on Pathable- Social Network for Conferences and Events

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COnnect at NMC Nov 12, 2009

 

There's a sea change underway in how conferences and events are held, driven by on-line social networking services, the democratizing power of the Internet, and a shifting economic landscape. Jordan Schwartz, president of Pathable, an online social networking services designed specifically for events, will talk with Alan Levine about how this is changing the event experience and the industry as a whole, looking at specific examples of events that are using new and innovative tools to provide new services to attendees.

Pathable joined the NMC in 2009 as a Corporate Partner and their social netwworking platform was successfuly used at the 2009 NMC Summer Conference in Monterey.

Social Networking Sites and their use in Education

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Question about using Myspace and Facebook for Academic Work


"We are currently teaching an instructional technology and pedagogy seminar for a group of Biology Post-Docs and the question came up regarding "why not use MySpace for course web pages?"
-- Wayne Morse Jr. - Emory University

 

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NMC Releases White Paper on the Evolution of Communication

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The New Media Consortium announced today the release of Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication, a white paper that discusses the premise that technology not only mediates interactions, but is actually changing the nature of communication itself.

This release marks the first in a series of topical papers associated with the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (formerly the Series of Online Conferences), which are designed to explore emerging topics in education and technology using social computing technologies to bring people together online in a way that offers many of the same affordances of a face-to-face conference.

Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication

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Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication

cover of publicationThis white paper is being released in a variety of forms as part of the NMC's New Scholarship Initiative.

Download the white paper in PDF (78k) -- but please also contribute to the paper and add to the conversation around it by commenting on it here. The paper is presented below in sections so that context-specific comments can be added or try the new CommentPress version that allows comments to be added to each paragraph. Please add your thoughts!

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One Year or Less: Social Networking

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Social Networking

Time-to-adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

The expectation that a website will remember the user is well established. Social networking takes this several steps further; the website knows who the user’s friends are, and may also know people that the user would like to meet or things the user would like to do. Even beyond that, social networking sites facilitate introduction and communication by providing a space for people to connect around a topic of common interest. These sites are fundamentally about community—communities of practice as well as social communities.

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Sparking innovation, learning and creativity.
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Identifying the impact of emerging technologies.
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The Edward and Betty Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA) provides timely, succinct and practical knowledge about emerging technologies that museums can use to advance their missions.
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The largest educational presence in any virtual world, involving more than 150 colleges and universities and a very active community of educators that numbers nearly 12,000.
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