Smithsonian 2.0 Conference, January 02009

At an invited conference on January 23 and 24, 02009, the Smithsonian Institution engaged nearly three dozen digitalari to help it image a better museum experience: Smithsonian 2.0: A Gathering to Re-Imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age. According to the site's About page, "Smithsonian 2.0 will bring more than 30 creative leaders from the Web, digital and new media worlds (chosen for their engagement of large audiences, including youth) to meet with a core group of Smithsonian staff to look at our vision, our challenges, and our current level of achievement in Web and new media. This group will try to identify how to move the Smithsonian forward toward a 'Smithsonian 2.0.'"