Online Volunteers Programs

Jim Thank you for your reply The project you describe seems a very exciting and innovative use of a Web site beneficial for both volunteers and the museum and the collaborating schools. It's a first rate means for volunteers to gain experience as members of a meaningful project. I look forward to seeing what the students come up with.

I wonder if any other members of the list know or can suggest of other ways that volunteers can participate in on-line programs. Suggestions I have heard about that might translate into a volunteer program include enabling Web visitors to curate their own exhibitions (by using on-line collections)and submit them for publishing on the Web site. This is possibly a good way for museums to gain fresh perspectives and a valuable experience for participants. It could take the form of a mentoring program whereby feedback is provided by the museum trish

Can we encourage volunteers, and others for that matter, to contribute on-line exhibtion reviews, both informational and opinioned? I would love to have 'foreign correspondents' reporting on what actually is to see 'out there' in museums. Is this a good idea, on a strictly volunteers basis (pun not intended, I suppose I mean 'ad hoc'? It is a beautiful spring day in Washington, DC