Writing this from the Museums and the Web conference in Albuquerque this year. For those of us who've been in the business for more than a few years, every couple years or so the thought pops up: "I need to retool, or I'll become obsolete."
I had a sense last year at the conference that there is a fundamentally new use of Web technologies for Museums that is focusing less on grand production of media and more on text message button pressing sentence fragments contributed by users. The buzzwords this year: social computing, folksonomy (tags created by visitors), blogging, Web 2.0.
I'll write more about this on the flight back from Albuquerque. It may seem disorienting at first, but I think it's all a good thing. It's about encouraging social interaction and participation in ways that we hadn't anticipated before the ready availability of blogging tools.


