[MCN-L] SFMOMA seeking firm to help produce EPUB
Hi All, I'm posting for a colleague: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is seeking a firm to help us produce a 100 page fixed layout EPUB with enhanced features such as embedded video and sound for our annual report. We are looking for a firm that is an expert on the technical side, but also enjoys creatively challenging the rules. We wish to complete the project by the end of January 2012. Can anyone suggest a firm? Please contact: Jennifer Sonderby Head of Graphic Design SFMOMA jsonderby at sfmoma.orgmailto:jsonderby at sfmoma.org Thanks, Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org 415.357.2871 The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you.
[MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums
Hi everyone, At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we are looking into licensing an online video platform such as Brightcove to serve all of our video and audio content, and are wondering what other institutions are doing. Is your institution using an online video delivery network? Which one? What do you like and dislike about it? Currently, all of our video and audio content is Flash and is delivered from our site. The primary reason we are looking into moving all of our media to a hosted delivery network such as Brightcove is so that we can upload all our existing media to one place and let the network deliver the appropriate format to any mobile device or platform. We have considered just using YouTube, but because of rights issues with much of our content, some of our content can only appear on our own site. Would love to hear what others are doing in this space! Thanks, Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you.
[MCN-L] MCN pre-conference workshop: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Website Development
Hi All, If you're attending MCN 2010 in Austin this year and are interested in learning about Agile games and Agile development for museums, be sure to sign-up for the preconference workshop titled, Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Website Development. We led a shorter, modified version of this workshop at Museums and the Web 2010 and got great feedback, so I hope you can join us in Austin. And consider combining it with Ari Davidow's morning workshop, Project Management for the Resource-challenged (http://www.mcn.edu/project-management-resource-challenged)! Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Website Development http://www.mcn.edu/play-work-applying-agile-methods-museum-website-devel opment Get together with other conference attendees and play games in this hands-on, interactive workshop facilitated by Carbon Five, a technology development and consulting firm, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). A special emphasis will be placed on experiential learning through Agile games and exercises, such as Planning Poker and Story Mapping, in this unique half-day workshop. Instructors will demonstrate how a successful partnership between SFMOMA and Carbon Five has created a lasting procedural legacy, and how the Agile process continues to provide a tactical toolkit and streamline ongoing development work. Participants will learn first-hand how games and other Agile tools and techniques can be successfully adapted and applied to museum website development, resulting in rapid delivery, reduced expenses, and improve teamwork. Participants will be strongly encouraged to share their own experiences and learn from each other in this session. Through games and other facilitated interactions, participants will learn how to: * Break down, prioritize, and classify projects to make decisions on what's important * Apply these tools and practical applications to any project * Establish a sustainable cycle of planning, development, and delivery * Avoid spending money and resources on things you don't really need * Solve complex problems with simple solutions This workshop can be taken independently, or can be complemented by the half-day morning workshop, Project Management for the Resource-challenged (http://www.mcn.edu/project-management-resource-challenged ). While the morning workshop will include a high-level introduction to some of the latest trends in Agile development as they apply to project management, this afternoon workshop focuses exclusively on hands-on Agile activities and games. If taken together with the morning workshop, participants will gain a broad view of project management practices and techniques coupled with a deep view of specific Agile activities. However, the morning workshop is not a prerequisite and this workshop can be taken on its own. Instructors: Alon Salant Principal Carbon Five 171 2nd Street 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 http://www.carbonfive.com Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103 http://www.sfmoma.org Hope to see everyone at MCN! Dana The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
[MCN-L] SFMOMA seeking freelance WordPress developer
Hi All, SFMOMA is looking for a freelance, on-call WordPress developer for our blog, Open Space (http://blog.sfmoma.org). We need an individual that can provide ongoing support, maintenance, and occasional troubleshooting. This person should be intimate with HTML and CSS, and be comfortable managing, supporting, and troubleshooting on the server side as well. Our blog is hosted with Media Temple. Our current WordPress contractor has taken on a new full-time job, but he will be available to train the next contractor. Ideally we'd like to find someone with whom we can establish a long-term working relationship as our blog continues to grow. The work is intermittent, working out to something like 1-2 hours a week, with some weeks nothing at all and other times needing a little bit more attention. The main task is to keep an eye out for WordPress software updates, security and plug-in updates, and bug fixes, and keep the blog up to date generally; to be available to answer questions or solve problems as they come up; to occasionally research new plug-ins or features, and to set them up on the staging server, and then implement them if we agree they're working; to make occasional small design tweaks or changes; and other smallish sorts of projects of this nature, on an ongoing basis. If you are interested, please contact: Suzanne Stein Community Producer San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sstein at sfmoma.org Thanks! Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
[MCN-L] does your institution have a social media manager?
I know this question has been asked in the past on MCN-l in various forms and permutations, but I'm asking again to get the latest, greatest answers from my peers, as things are changing so rapidly in the arena of social media and museums! Does your institution have a dedicated, full-time social media manager? If so, in which department does that position live? Or do you divide up social media responsibilities between more than one person or department? If so, what criteria do you use to make those distinctions? Many thanks for your input! Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
[MCN-L] Embark and Gallery Systems
Yes, it is possible. At SFMOMA, we're exporting XML from EmbARK and importing it into our web CMS. We worked with Gallery Systems on defining which metadata fields we wanted in the XML and then worked with our CMS consultants on setting up a process for importing the XML. The process has its quirks (it's not automated, for one) but it works and it allows us to serve our collection through our web CMS instead of a separate system over which we'd have less control (Embark Web Kiosk, for example). I'd be happy to share one of our XML files or more details. Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Alexander Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:06 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Embark and Gallery Systems I'm wondering if Embark or Gallery Systems has any way to export data as an XML feed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks in advance. Chris Alexander | Manager of Interactive Technology San Jose Museum of Art 110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 408-271-6875 ph. 408-294-2977 fx. calexander at sjmusart.org mailto:calexander at sjmusart.org __ Go to www.sjmusart.org/podcast http://www.sjmusart.org/podcast to listen to our MUSE Award winning podcast or search for SJMA on iTunes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=200789 487 . Is video more your thing? Check out our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/sanjosemuseumofart http://www.youtube.com/sanjosemuseumofart ___ 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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
[MCN-L] Share bookmarklets on online collections
We just incorporated AddThis on the SFMOMA site. It's highly customizable and we're happy with it so far. We felt we didn't need to reinvent something that already existed and was available via a free tool. You can see it on this collection page: http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/213 The Walker, being way cooler than us, built their own. http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2008/12/22/enabling-users-to-share-c ontent-to-social-media-sites/ Dana .. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitroff at sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:55 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Share bookmarklets on online collections Hi everyone: Has anyone implemented the use of sharing tools on individual item pages within their museum's online collections? I want to request a bunch of share links to del.icio.us, Zotero, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and Reddit and I think there are some tools to help do this (code easily embedded into the page), but I don't recall the names of them right now. Has anyone had any experience with doing this and can provide some advice? Any other sites I should be able to share on? Thanks in advance! ~Perian Perian Sully Collections Information Manager Web Programs Strategist The Magnes 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 Fax: 510-849-3673 http://www.magnes.org http://www.musematic.org http://www.mediaandtechnology.org ___ 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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you
