[MCN-L] cross-platform apps?

Hi John, I think you will find more and more tools will come out that support cross platform apps. There are several reasons why there are not a huge number of them to date: - Market penetration: Although other smart phones (apart from the iPhone) have significant market share people do not

[MCN-L] ecommerce (Nate Solas)

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[MCN-L] Forwarding e-blasts (Ari Davidow)

Hi Ari, What mailing list software are you using? If you use something like Mail Chimp you can add forward tags to the mailing: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-add-a-forward-to-a-friend-link/ If you have a few big donors you can also get the list of friends off them and customise

[MCN-L] Forwarding e-blasts

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[MCN-L] Suggestions for Web Analytics software besides Google Analytics

but basically on page load you have a default piece of javascript that adds the correct Javascript to each anchor tag. Here[3] is a script that does it using the old method of generating 'fake' page views (the new way of using event tracking is the recommended way). Hope this helps. Thanks Glen Barnes

[MCN-L] App stats

People just don't use their Android devices anywhere near as much as iOS users so even though the installed base is bigger the usage is a lot lower. I would hazard a guess that a lot of Android users don't even really know they have a 'smartphone' and have no idea how to use most of the

[MCN-L] Different Copyrights / Different Image Resolutions

Hi Kate, Speaking from an NZ perspective here. I've found that in NZ institutions tend to limit access to higher quality images and have separate licensing on these (rather than copyright). You are free to use the web published version but if you want anything extra then you need to jump through

[MCN-L] Requirements for Museum Gift Shop/Cafe POS system

I don't have a list of requirements as such but you should have Vend on your list of options - http://www.vendhq.com. Thanks, -- Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: glen at mytoursapp.com p: +64 (9) 3600 617 m: +64 (21) 0429 471 --- Sign up to our

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing (Cindy Mackey)

you should be thinking about how you can harness some cloud services for things like backup and caching. If you publish your collections online you will be amazed out how much better performance you get if you cache the images using Amazon CloudFront. Cheers from down under! -- Glen Barnes

[MCN-L] A working list of free/low-cost alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud products

then I install this. http://alternativeto.net also has lots of recommendations (Although their website seems to be a bit broken right now). Cheers Glen -- Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: glen at mytoursapp.com p: +64 (9) 3600 617 m: +64 (21) 0429 471

[MCN-L] Gift Shop Point of Sales Solutions (Blackwell, Katherine)

I would have to put a plug in for fellow kiwi company VendHQ who are making waves worldwide with their cloud based POS system - http://www.vendhq.com. The main thing I have seen feedback on is that whatever you choose you need to make sure you set it up properly to start with - Make sure the

Re: [MCN-L] KWI Cloud POS

I haven't had any experience with KWI POS but you may want to check out VendHQ (http://www.vendhq.com) if you haven't already. They are doing some great things with cloud based POS Glen Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:20:12 + From: Blackwell, Katherine k-blackw...@nga.gov To:

Re: [MCN-L] High efficiency scanners

I'm not sure what you have to scan but have you looked at what the Internet Archive offers? 10 cents a page. https://archive.org/scanning Brewster Kahle gave a talk at NDF last year and I was very impressed with their setup. They will be bringing out a DIY $10K scanner this year which looks like

Re: [MCN-L] handheld GPS devices for recording object locations

I'm thinking you should just use an app on a smartphone? There are tons around but it sounds like you need something basic - An app that allows you to go to a location and record a POI with some form of data and then export the list. iOS or Android should be fine. Just check how good the GPS unit

Re: [MCN-L] handheld GPS devices for recording object locations

=com.flashlight.lite.gps.logger And try this search on the Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/search?q=ultra%20gps%20loggerc=appshl=en Plenty of options ;-) Glen On 12 June 2015 at 09:42, Glen Barnes g...@mytoursapp.com wrote: I'm thinking you should just use an app on a smartphone

Re: [MCN-L] Data-driven museum maps?

Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com p: +64 (9) 3600 617 m: +64 (21) 0429 471 -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:37:04 -0500 From: Douglas Hegley dheg...@artsmia.org To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l

Re: [MCN-L] CZur book/document scanner Indiegogo

of storing images locally and coming up with your own workflow but for $200 it is worth a punt. I will post something when we finally get a hold of it. Thanks Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com p: +64 (9) 3600 617 m: +64 (21) 0429 471 -- > > Mess

[MCN-L] Cases for Android devices

be for any reasonably modern phone/tablet. Also charging solutions that would work for multiple Android devices would be good. And recommendations appreciated! Thanks Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com p: +64 (9) 3600 617 m: +64 (21) 0429 471

Re: [MCN-L] Online Collections Tagging

We’ve just done some initial testing with Clarifai for auto-tagging images. The tags are not 100% but I think there is an opportunity there to tag using something Clarifai and present these tags to users - “Do any of these tags describe the work? painting, barn,

Re: [MCN-L] Online Collections Tagging

< > caff-f5pcahhctmmyuqr-xacxqvto6p0bo7nnx2+ns46kkht...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Have you looked at Alchemy API? Recently acquired by IBM's Watson unit, > they do decent image recognition. > Nate > On Nov 16, 2015 6:05 P

Re: [MCN-L] data archiving (Matt Wheeler)

The base _costs_ for online storage through Amazon s3 is ~$370/year. Plus there are costs for pushing data into and out of the archive, another copying in Amazon Glacier, plus developing the archival software so $1200-$2000/year isn’t too bad but can be expensive for smaller organisations. You

[MCN-L] Metadata description language

ow Box approached the problem and we’re looking for something similar that is open source. Has anybody had any experience with this in the sector or know of any good implementations? Cheers Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com m: +64 (21) 04

[MCN-L] Class Booking Systems

rdable, SaaS based class/group booking system for smaller organisations? My Google-foo eludes me ;-) Cheers Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com m: +64 (21) 0429 471 ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer N

Re: [MCN-L] Translation Services

We use iTours Australia/China Digital for our translations - http://www.itoursaustralia.com.au. They are specialists in interpretative content and do a great job. For our app work (menu’s, etc.) and any small one off work (say a single page with quick turnaround) we use Gengo - https://gengo.com.

[MCN-L] Android Rental Devices

Following on from the iPod rental discussion… Has anybody used Android devices as rentals? If so what device, cover and charging solution did you choose? Cheers Glen Barnes ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer

Re: [MCN-L] Platform for accessing text, images and videos in gallery spaces

-Android-tablet.html?site=glo_id=SB_20170402135023=Android+tablet=200216621=y Cheers Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com m: +64 (21) 0429 471 > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:06:19 +000

Re: [MCN-L] Managing and storing video content for website

you drop the source file into S3 the ElasticTranscoder does its thing so not a lot of set up required. Cheers Glen Barnes Founder/CEO e: g...@mytoursapp.com m: +64 (21) 0429 471 > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 7 Ju

Re: [MCN-L] Examples of augmented reality in museums

I don’t know what others on this list think but this post seems like blatant advertising? As a vendor myself I am very careful to only post response to questions where we can add value to a discussion. I would hate to see this discussion list to turn into a LinkedIn group ;-) Regards Glen Barnes

Re: [MCN-L] Preparing for quickly approaching GDPR deadline

lcome to the club! Cheers Glen Barnes CEO/Founder Authentic - Home of My Tours, Curtis, STQRY and 7scenes p: +64 (21) 0429 471 e: g...@getauthentic.io w: www.getauthentic.io > > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 11:33:45 -0800 > From: Nik Honeysett <nhoneys...@bpoc.org> &g

[MCN-L] Bulk charging stations

Apart from the Parat Solutions charging bays/cases has anybody had any experiences with other vendors? Who else is out there that supplies this type of equipment? Looking for something iPod Touch and also something Android (for outdoor stuff that needs GPS). Thanks Glen Barnes CEO/Founder

Re: [MCN-L] Multilingual websites (Amalyah Keshet)

> > Less so for exhibition texts, articles, and deep content, but its > certainly better than nothing. Just a word of caution here for interpretative text. IMHO nothing is better than machine translation if dealing with culturally significant text. Do you really want to trust a machine to