FIR Interview: Michael Edson, Director, Web & New Media Strategy, Smithsonian Institution

Michael Edson put the development of a strategy for social media at the Smithsonian Institution on a public-facing wiki where anyone could monitor progress. In this interview, Shel Holtz chats with Michael about the reactions and results produced by the effort, along with the Smithsonian’s approaches to new media.

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Michael EdsonMichael Edson is the Smithsonian Institution’s Director of Web and New Media Strategy. Michael has worked on numerous award-winning projects and has been involved in practically every aspect of technology and New Media for museums, including content development, digitization, blogging, gaming, public access to collections, information architecture, networking, place-of-business applications, programming, project management, graphic design, animation, audio and video production, mobile platforms, and citizen-created content.  In addition to developing the Smithsonian’s first Web and New Media Strategy, Michael helped create the Smithsonian’s first blog, Eye Level, and the first Alternate Reality Game to take place in a museum, Ghost of a Chance. Michael has a BA from Wesleyan University.

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