[MCN-L] Engaging community in exhibitions
Emma, For something simple, what about "curated voicemail?" Give out a number (you could even promote it at the event, and people could call from their mobile) and people could call with their story. If the voice mail is digital, you have instant audio files. Since you have (I believe) free in-bound calling in Australia, how about letting people register their (mobile) number and a curator will call them (recording the call). People could send a text message from a mobile, asking for a "call back." Obviously you could put up a web site, have skype voice mail, and many other techniques. Once you have the recordings, you can edit them down, place them in context, do all the good things that curators do. And, the "prompt" on the voice mail can have guidelines, can request a number to call so you can verify that they are who they say they are and give consent, etc, and the format of the voicemail system will automatically limit them to 1 minute (or whatever). ...r On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Emma Jones wrote: > At the Australian War Memorial, we have been dabbling in blogs, facebook, > Flickr etc but we have an exhibition coming up where we would like to engage > the community beyond the historians, experts on 16 pound shells and military > history enthusiasts. As the working title is "Love and War", this exhibition > will be moving beyond some of our more traditional themes and we are looking > for ways to allow people to tell us their stories, related to war or > overseas service. Has anyone else done this and if so, what did you find > worked well (or not). Let me know. > Emma Jones > > > * > > AWM DISCLAIMER: > > This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for > its recipient(s). If you have received this email by error, please delete > this e-mail from your system and notify the sender immediately. E-mail > transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure. E-mail information could be > intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, be incomplete, or > contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any > errors or omissions in the contents of this message. > > > * > ___ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > -- Richard Smith, Professor, School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith
[MCN-L] MCN on Twitter and Flickr
Oh yes! Also forgot to mention that you may also add your Flickr photos to the Museum Computer Network Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/mcn/ -Original Message- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Perian Sully Sent: Wed 11/12/2008 3:11 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] MCN on Twitter and Flickr Hi everyone! As Richard mentioned earlier, we will be tweeting from MCN2008 in glorious Washington DC (at least when we can get out of the hotel basement to where there is actual internet connectivity...). Please follow us at http://twitter.com/mcn2008 Also, a reminder that there is an MCN2008 Flickr group. I apologize to anyone I annoyed by taking a bajillion photos during the Luce Foundation Center tour today, but I had a good excuse - to add beautiful photos from the tour to the Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/mcn2008/ (and also to make Richard terribly jealous that he's not with us this year). You can also tag your photos with mcn2008 and everyone will be able to find them by searching http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mcn2008/ Looking forward to seeing you all again and meeting new folks! ~Perian ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
[MCN-L] MCN on Twitter and Flickr
Hi everyone! As Richard mentioned earlier, we will be tweeting from MCN2008 in glorious Washington DC (at least when we can get out of the hotel basement to where there is actual internet connectivity...). Please follow us at http://twitter.com/mcn2008 Also, a reminder that there is an MCN2008 Flickr group. I apologize to anyone I annoyed by taking a bajillion photos during the Luce Foundation Center tour today, but I had a good excuse - to add beautiful photos from the tour to the Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/mcn2008/ (and also to make Richard terribly jealous that he's not with us this year). You can also tag your photos with mcn2008 and everyone will be able to find them by searching http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mcn2008/ Looking forward to seeing you all again and meeting new folks! ~Perian
[MCN-L] Armchair Delegates Unite!
Richard, I don't suppose it is possible for this year, but, I'd like to see MCN sessions made available in Second Life. Jo Miles-Seely Richard Urban wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm sorry I won't be able to join some of you in Washington, D.C. this > year. Since I'll be an armchair delegate this year, I've posted some > thoughts on Musematic (http://musematic.net/?p=533). > > I'm guessing that I'm not the only one who wasn't able to make it to > D.C. this year & Ari has already started a conversation about > mobilizing via social networks. As Rob suggested in his message, > the activity of SIGS and other mechanisms is partly up to members > making their voices heard (and putting their shoulders to the wheel). > > For those of us not attending the conference - how could we experiment > with organizing our own ad-hoc virtual confab this year? > > Richard Urban > rjurban at illinois.edu > > > > > ___ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > -- Jo Miles-Seely, Business Systems Analyst Information Systems Office Mississippi Department of Archives & History PO Box 571 Jackson, MS 39205-0571 Telephone: 601-576-6979 Facsimile: 601-576-6975 Email: jomiles at mdah.state.ms.us
[MCN-L] Use of Ning and similar Community of Practice tools
I've found ning sites particularly useful for creating ad hoc social networks with a specific audience, content or goal. Wikis are better for collaboratively creating content, but lack the social elements of a ning. You can set customised profile questions on a ning that help your members learn useful and relevant information about each others, without all the extra personal detail they'd get on a site like Facebook. The problem I've found is that they lack lightweight tools for notifying members of new content or activity - the RSS feeds supplied are very useful if your audience already knows how RSS works, but otherwise you have to send 'broadcast' messages to members. Done well it could be a useful digest of news, but it feels a little spammy. cheers, Mia http://openobjects.blogspot.com
