[MCN-L] Admissions Ticketing

2010-07-16 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
functions for online and internal tools are designed and maintained by the IT staff Doron Ben Avraham - IT Manager New Museum Of Contemporary Art TEL : 212.219.1222 x 233 FAX: 212.432.6822 newmuseum.org Today's Topics: 1. Admissions Ticketing Solutions (Sweeting III, Floyd) 2. Chair

[MCN-L] question on gallery simulation software

2009-02-27 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Hi We are using Google Sketchup PRO with great success in the new museum. http://sketchup.google.com/ Regards Doron

[MCN-L] Gladwell New Yorker Article Priced to Sell

2009-11-02 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
controlled and administered thus operating in a way that requires a recovery of costs that simply cannot be obtained directly from the content it serves Doron Ben Avraham - IT Manager New Museum Of Contemporary Art newmuseum.org Free is just another price, and prices are set by individual actors

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 15 -Scheduling software

2008-08-15 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We are using TicketMaster Vista platform for scheduling operations in the new museum. I am however considering alternatives due to severe problems with 3rd Party software employed by the package. Doron Ben-Avraham IT Manager New Museum of Contemporary Art 235 Bowery St. New York, NY 10002 Tel

[MCN-L] Ticketing systems and POS

2008-08-19 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We are currently using TicketMaster Vista system for Ticketing in the museum, it performs fairly well however, the credit card transaction platform (icverify)and overall reliability is a major concern Any recommendation for alternatives? Thanks Doron Ben-Avraham IT Manager New Museum

[MCN-L] New Museum Of Contemporary Art NY, Archivist Position

2011-05-04 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
The New Museum seeks an experienced Digital Archivist to lead the second phase of the museum's digital archive project. The Digital Archivist will provide leadership and strategic planning for the project, manage the museum's physical and digital assets, train staff on best practices, research

[MCN-L] BlackBaud NetCommunity

2011-04-05 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
and experience on the implementation and benefits you perceive from your environment, would be great. Thank you Doron Ben Avraham - IT Manager New Museum Of Contemporary Art TEL : 212.219.1222 x 233 FAX: 212.432.6822 newmuseum.orghttp://www.newmuseum.org/

[MCN-L] Backup/Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity the Cloud

2011-04-14 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
bandwidth according to requirements. Doron Ben Avraham - IT Manager New Museum Of Contemporary Art TEL : 212.219.1222 x 233 FAX: 212.432.6822 newmuseum.org Greetings to all, SFMOMA is planning a $500m building and endowment expansion during the next four to five years. This expansion

[MCN-L] The New Museum Of Contemporary Art is seeking a MSSQL DBA/ANALYST

2011-04-21 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
The New Museum Of Contemporary Art seeks an experienced DBA to maintain and develop the museum database systems. The DBA will provide leadership and strategic planning for current and future database systems, manage the membership database, ticketing database, maintain the integrity and

[MCN-L] IT SIG - MCN conference 2011 (Janice)

2010-11-04 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Three issues that came to my mind, and seem to plague everybody I talked to in the conference. 1. DAM and DMS integrated solutions, with emphasis on practice rather than theory, what solutions are being used, how are they integrated with users desktop experience, and institution culture. 2.

[MCN-L] google apps

2010-03-17 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
The tech notwithstanding.what is google to do with the stored information is a question. the buzz fiasco is troubling in many levels. mcn-l-request at mcn.edu mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote: Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to mcn-l at mcn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the

[MCN-L] Virtualization Link

2010-03-24 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Thanks for the link I find this blog on the subject very useful as well - http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ Doron Ben Avraham - IT Manager New Museum Of Contemporary Art TEL : 212.219.1222 x 233 FAX: 212.432.6822 newmuseum.org

[MCN-L] Open Source CMS for collection

2009-09-30 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Hello Nicole We are in the process of modification of the following platform http://www.collectiveaccess.org/ you can modify and replicate the database so as to create a tiered access for internal and external use. It's a great platform to build on Doron Ben Avraham - IT Manager New Museum

[MCN-L] Share bookmarklets on online collections

2009-03-04 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Disclosure: I am involved in the development process of this project. ShiftSpace is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web. You can create notes, highlights etc... on any web page collections included, the code is free and opensource, so you

[MCN-L] MAC vs PC

2009-06-26 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
In the New museum facilities we had our systems running on mac osx desktops almost exclusively for almost a year.At the time I thought that it would be a boon to run the whole place on this state of the art- Artist friendly platform, it looked very nice, but over a period of a year I came to

[MCN-L] access for a mid-size institution

2009-07-28 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
works for us, and so far we had very little reliability problems. Doron Ben Avraham IT manager - New Museum Of Contemorary Arts Today's Topics: 1. Re: Internet access for a mid-size institution (Peter_Guss at whitney.org) 2. Records and Information Management in Transition, ISKO UK

[MCN-L] converter program CD-Rom to Web Based

2013-01-17 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We Process CD-ROM into ISO images and mount them as an information store on our vmware ESX platform. It can then be available at any fashion you wish to use the data. Doron Ben-Avraham Director of Technology NEW MUSEUM TEL : 212.219.1222 x 233 FAX: 212.432.6822 newmuseum.org I am not aware

[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 98, Issue 13

2013-10-20 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
The preference on our system is for deduplication to reside in the file system level. Netapp storage systems as well as the new windows 2012 have dedupe capabilities builtin On Oct 20, 2013, at 8:00, mcn-l-request at mcn.edu mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote: Send mcn-l mailing list

[MCN-L] What is it like to connect to museum Wi-Fi on a mobile

2014-05-11 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We don't have portal capture page/ splash at new museum. Content filtering policy prevents bandwidth chokers like P2P etc... Also note that portal Capture mechanisms interfere with a range of devices, google glass among them. On May 11, 2014, at 8:00 AM, mcn-l-request at mcn.edu

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-23 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We employ several cloud services as a backup systems and redundancy measures. We do not, and will not, employ cloud services as a primary repository of our data, for several reasons which I will briefly discuss here. 1. Technical: Bandwidth in the US is still very expensive. To get real

[MCN-L] What Ticketing system does your museum use or plan to deploy?

2014-12-11 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Hello MCNers Now that the infamous TMvista platform is going out of business, many organizations are scrambling to get a new ticketing system. If any of you can share your current evaluations or alternative systems that you implemented I will be very grateful. Many Thanks D DORON BEN-AVRAHAM

[MCN-L] IT annual budget commitments across the sector

2015-09-04 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Hello fellow MCNers I am a trying to find out what is the annual budget commitment of museums to IT on an annual basis. The nonprofit sector dedicates an average of 3.5% to IT Annually, I am curious to know if museums are different. Can anyone direct me to research on this subject or give

Re: [MCN-L] Digital signage recommendations

2016-08-20 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
We use dboard at the new museum (http://www.d-board.net) It's Wordpress based and self hosted. We run the players as chrome based kiosks with ajax scheduling. It's simple and easy. Doron > On Aug 20, 2016, at 08:00, "mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu" > wrote: > > Re: Digital

[MCN-L] Job Opening at the Guggenheim NYC - DBA, Manager, IT Applications

2016-12-30 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
of TMS, Raiser’s Edge and other platforms. A full description is available at https://www.guggenheim.org/careers/manager-information-technology-applications and of course you can contact me directly for any questions Doron Ben-Avraham Chief Information Officer Email: dbavra...@guggenheim.org

[MCN-L] Facility management platforms

2017-08-28 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
control that can be assigned. tracking of assets and spaces are critical. What platforms or controls do you use in your institutions? Are they tied to your Building management systems? Fixed asset financial tracking? Thank you for your valuable input Doron Ben-Avraham Chief Information Officer

[MCN-L] Exhibition Design Workflow Survey

2017-11-28 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Hello esteemed colleagues. This September the NEW INC museum art tech incubator inaugurated its first Museum Technology track, a specialized program supported by Knight Foundation to help innovators who are harnessing technology toward the survival and future of art museums and their