Steve asked: I'm curious, I had assumed the term "Digital Signage" pretty much precluded interactivity, but the company you mention has "interactive" right in their name, so I skimmed their website - but I didn't notice much that seemed interactive.
The "interactive" portion of what they do out of the box is pretty much limited to wayfinding solutions. They actually have a pretty slick interactive setup with facilities maps to do basic wayfinding and routing to areas of interest. We haven't implemented this yet, but will be looking into it in the coming year. Thinking of how this solution can be used for managing interactive content - they do support Flash and pretty much anything that can be run in a browser, and the digital 'signage' endpoints are just PCs, so you could setup an interactive endpoint within the system and control it centrally, but I think one would have to look at the ROI of doing so - perhaps justifiable if you have an interactive endpoint that you want to change content on fairly regularly. Marc E. Check Director of Information and Interactive Technology Museum of Science Science Park Boston, MA 02114 617-589-4279 (office) 585-755-8622 (mobile) -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of mcn-l-requ...@mcn.edu Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:00 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: mcn-l Digest, Vol 72, Issue 8 Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to mcn-l at mcn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mcn-l-request at mcn.edu You can reach the person managing the list at mcn-l-owner at mcn.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of mcn-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: TMS on a Mac (lenore) 2. Re: Digital Signage Solutions (Marc Check) 3. Re: Digital Signage Solutions (Rothman, Steve) 4. Re: TMS on a Mac (Rothman, Steve) 5. Congratulations to MCN 2011 Scholarship Recipients (Portway, Victoria) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:16:26 -0600 From: lenore <knect...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] TMS on a Mac To: Museum Computer Network Listserv <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <CA+tEFCBF9QBG+8uD9Ok8dMmO4dxNZKUoz9zOW1w3Q9ySuGE5ew at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIMSY has always worked on both PCs and Macs. On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Stanley Smith <ssmith at getty.edu> wrote: > > At the Getty we have a pretty big contingent of Mac users (imaging > folks, designers, Publications), and they all need to access our > collection management system, TMS. Currently they do this by using a > shared PC that lives in a jump seat within their departments, but is > away from their > desks-- making things as simple as cut-and-paste impossible. Our IT > department has so far been reluctant to allow virtualization of > Windows on our Macs (using either VMware or Parallels). I'd be > interested to find out if other museums are able to access Windows > programs on their Macs, and if so have there been any problems related > to this configuration (security, update, of performance issues). Thanks in > advance for your feedback! > > Stanley Smith > Head of Collection Information and Access J. Paul Getty Museum > 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1000 > Los Angeles, CA 90049-1687 > (310) 440-7286 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:57:37 -0700 From: Marc Check <mch...@mos.org> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage Solutions To: "mcn-l at mcn.edu" <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <FC96AC90534BEE4487033A0DC307B76925B0BFCD at VA3DIAXVS0A1.RED001.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Adrienne - At the Museum of Science we recently went through a pretty deep search for digital signage solutions. By far the best solution we found, and one we recently implemented, was Four Winds Interactive Digital Signage: http://www.fourwindsinteractive.com/ The cost was extremely competitive compared to other solutions (and ultimately negotiable), the feature set is rich, and the project management from their end was great. We had some very unique needs for delivering content via our own XML feeds as well as a list of other oddball requirements, and they helped us meet all of these in short time. Feel free to contact me directly if I can answer any specific questions about our implementation or our experience working with them. Marc E. Check Director of Information and Interactive Technology Museum of Science Science Park Boston, MA 02114 617-589-4279 (office) 585-755-8622 (mobile) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:31:25 -0400 From: "Rothman, Steve" <sroth...@fas.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage Solutions To: "'mcn-l at mcn.edu'" <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <28B613525E068146BFFCB39121BAD0ECD27C6302 at FASXCH01.fasmail.priv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I'm curious, I had assumed the term "Digital Signage" pretty much precluded interactivity, but the company you mention has "interactive" right in their name, so I skimmed their website - but I didn't notice much that seemed interactive. Does anyone do anything interesting with a centrally managed system that can handle both signage and interactive applications? __ Steve Rothman, Systems Administrator Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 617-517-4855 -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Marc Check Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7:58 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digital Signage Solutions Adrienne - At the Museum of Science we recently went through a pretty deep search for digital signage solutions. By far the best solution we found, and one we recently implemented, was Four Winds Interactive Digital Signage: http://www.fourwindsinteractive.com/ The cost was extremely competitive compared to other solutions (and ultimately negotiable), the feature set is rich, and the project management from their end was great. We had some very unique needs for delivering content via our own XML feeds as well as a list of other oddball requirements, and they helped us meet all of these in short time. Feel free to contact me directly if I can answer any specific questions about our implementation or our experience working with them. Marc E. Check Director of Information and Interactive Technology Museum of Science Science Park Boston, MA 02114 617-589-4279 (office) 585-755-8622 (mobile) _______________________________________________ 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/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:21:11 -0400 From: "Rothman, Steve" <sroth...@fas.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] TMS on a Mac To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <28B613525E068146BFFCB39121BAD0ECD27C62F3 at FASXCH01.fasmail.priv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We've been using the free VM Virtual Box on a handful of Macs, seems to work nicely. http://www.virtualbox.org/ I imagine the paid equivalents (VMWare Fusion, Parallels, etc.) have some advantages, but Virtual Box works well enough for us. -Steve __ Steve Rothman, Systems Administrator Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 617-517-4855 > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:49:57 -0400 From: "Portway, Victoria" <portw...@si.edu> Subject: [MCN-L] Congratulations to MCN 2011 Scholarship Recipients To: "'mcn-l at mcn.edu'" <mcn-l at mcn.edu> Message-ID: <797ADF1D9300604586610F3FE24593BC051E604F60 at SI-MSEV04.US.SINET.SI.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The 2011 MCN Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of fifteen MCN Annual Conference Scholarships and four THATcamp MCN Awards funded by the Kress Foundation. Over seventy qualified professionals from the museum, library, and archives communities applied for these competitive scholarships to attend the MCN conference and THATcamp "unconference" this November in Atlanta. Congratulations to all of the recipients! We look forward to seeing you at MCN 2011. MCN 2011 Conference info: http://mcn.edu/mcn-2011-atlanta MCN Scholarship Recipients Lisa Adang, Digital Imaging Specialist, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Matthew Andress, Collections Specialist, Art in Public Spaces, Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida Susan Cairns, Doctoral Student/ Website Coordinator, University of Newcastle/Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Adamstown, Australia Sarah Chu, Graduate Student/Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, Wisconsin Adam Fix, Archives Technician, National Park Service, Vancouver, Washington Amy Fulkerson, Curator of Collections, Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas Lucy Jones, Assistant Archivist, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Maureen Lane, Collections Manager & Digital Media Manager, Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Jonathan Lill, Project Archivist, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Owen Melenka, Photographer, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada Mia Ridge, Doctoral Student, Open University, Oxford, England Alice Rubin, Senior Project Manager, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, New York Gary Schneider, Director of Education, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey Margaret Tamulonis, Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, Robert Hull Fleming Museum at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont Elycia Wallis, Manager of Online Collections, Museum Victoria, Victoria, Australia THATcamp MCN Awards Funded by Kress Katie Filbert, President, Wiki Society of Washington D.C., Washington, D.C. Adriene Katz, Museum Intern, Rufus Porter Museum, Bridgton, Maine Abby Van Ness, Program Communication Manager, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, Missouri Vicky Walsh, Database Administrator, Science Museum of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mcn-l mailing list mcn-l at mcn.edu http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l End of mcn-l Digest, Vol 72, Issue 8 ************************************
