The Web2.0 stream began with Jeff Gates from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s EyeLevel blog. Discussing EyeLevel, Gates explained their cautious but highly successful approach to getting blogging activated within a large and venerable organisation like the Smithsonian. Before gong public EyeLevel was used internally for two months with sample posts and comments within SAAM [...]
Entries Tagged as 'MW2007'
M&W07 – Day two: Web2.0, EyeLevel, Brooklyn Museum, Science Museum UK
April 13th, 2007 2 Comments
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M&W07 – Day two: Brewster Kahle
April 13th, 2007 4 Comments
Museums & the Web is very big this year. There must be nearly 1000 people here and there is a good buzz in between sessions. Today opened with an entertaining and motivational opening plenary from Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. Kahle talked about the Internet Archive disucssing the various types of media it [...]
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M&W07 – Other workshops: mashups and blogging
April 12th, 2007 Comments Off
M&W07 is already causing timetable clashes! Running simultaneously with my workshop were many other excellent workshops. Two colleagues have posted their workshop slides and notes online as well. The team at Walker Art Center ran their Beyond blogging: is it a community yet?. They have posted some rather extensive and excellent notes for their session [...]
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M&W07 – Planning for Social Media in Museums workshop
April 12th, 2007 1 Comment
Angelina Russo, Jerry Watkins and I have just finished presenting our Planning for Social Media in Museums workshop. The slides for those who came are packaged as a PDF for download. The workshop was designed to get people thinking about ways of planning for and overcoming the hurdles that inevitably need to be negotiated when [...]
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Schaller & Allison-Bunnell on learning styles and interactive design
April 1st, 2007 Comments Off
David Schaller and Steven Allison-Bunnell’s day long workshop on designing educational interactive media was one of the highlights of Museums & the Web in 2005 for me. It was a fantastic workshop and one that gets run each year (and always books out well in advance!). If you managed to book a place this year [...]
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Museum blogs survey results online / San Francisco blogger meet-up
March 31st, 2007 Comments Off
Museums & The Web has published the survey conducted by Jim Spadaccini and myself earlier this year titled Radical Trust: the State of the Museum blogosphere. As 2006 began, there were less than thirty known museum blogs; since then, that number has more than doubled. Today there are well over 100 blogs exploring museum issues, [...]
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Does your audience want Web 2.0? Lessons from SFMOMA
March 28th, 2007 5 Comments
When ploughing through the M&W2007 papers (more are still going up), pay particular attention to Do You Know Who Your Users Are? The Role Of Research In Redesigning sfmoma.org by Dana Mitroff and Katrina Alcorn from SFMOMA looking at the evaluation and redesign process behind their forthcoming new SFMOMA website. Of particular pertinence to discussions [...]
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Museums & the Web 2007 papers online / Fantoni on museum ‘bookmarking’
March 26th, 2007 Comments Off
The first batch of papers for Museums & the Web have gone online. Picking the first one to read at random, I chose Silvia Fillipini Fantoni’s paper on “Bookmarking in museums”. I am interested in this area as we developed a prototype mobile phone object bookmarking application just over two years ago but never rolled [...]
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