[MCN-L] Online vs physical visits
Morgan, You just beat me to the send key on this one. ROI is measured by both highly tangible and more intangible results, such as fulfilling the mission irrespective of whether feet pass through the door. I noted this in reviewing a number of museum missions in advance of an MCN conference discussion related to the topic a while back. It is interesting how marketing and business units may still tend to constrict the bounds of ROI, as they still consider a successful financial and human resource investment return in terms of conversions (the term for-profit businesses use) which could mean admissions, retail, etc. Yet, I wonder how a Board might respond at hearing that hundreds or thousands of school children were using the web site as a surrogate for class visits they can no longer afford, yet still integrating the museum content into their curriculum, and developing long term bonds with those kids (and maybe their parents). Would they say this doesnt count. There are many examples one could give. This issue has come up at least as far back as the inception of broadcast radio networks, when they were not permitted for years to play recorded music, lest they preempt record purchases. Today, even orchestras are putting samples of their performances online *to generate audiences* and the Met's theatrical broadcasts of operas has not caused the Opera House to play to empty seats. And by the way, art museum exhibits have just started to come to theaters near you, too. http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_22984422/museum-exhibitions-come-movie-theaters I remember working with a Chief Financial Officer who asked me as I submitted the web development budget for the subsequent year, Isnt this website stuff finished yet? Somehow I dont think she asked the Director a similar question about acquisitions for the collection. Some day perhaps she will find the former question similarly moot. As the definition of museum evolves.. I hope to live long enough to see ICOM and AAM recognize museums which are only online and meet particular criteria as bona fide and accreditable ... maybe AAM and AAMD has to get out the word, or make it part of the ethic as much as they have both promoted education and civic engagement, that getting museum content online and out there, in oh so many forms, is a valid and good thing and part of being of museum of today. Period. Len Steinbach On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Morgan Holzer morganholzer at nypl.orgwrote: Bernard, For me, (someone whose job relies heavily on statistics and user research), this question actually simply comes down to your mission statement. I looked your's up ( http://www.otagomuseum.govt.nz/about-us/corporate-information/) and in part, it says: Mission: To inspire and enrich our communities, and enhance understanding of the world through our collection, our people and the stories we share... Expanding joy: Reaching out to our communities and enabling access for all. I'd wager that the vast majority of museum mission statements include something about education/outreach/access in regards to collections, and do not actually contain any mention of getting people in the door. Not putting up online collections/exhibitions is actually contrary to your stated goals of enabling access for all, and specifically targeting access for those who can attend. Of course, metrics and research help bolster the argument, but I think mission-driven arguments are always a good place to start. ~Morgan On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Proctor, Nancy ProctorN at si.edu wrote: I really appreciated Bruce Wyman and Nick Poole's responses to the question about online cannibalizing in-person museum visits. Sadly this is still a question museum technologists face, but more importantly I agree we need to do better at measuring ROI - though I would add, on all platforms museums use, not just digital ones! Easier said than done, of course. Is anyone aggregating the links and thoughts provided in these important emails to the listserv in a blog post or other? If not, I'd be happy to start a post on the Musematic blog (or other recommended site) as I'm sure many others have useful references and past posts to add as well. Nancy -- We all get a lot of email; here's how I try to help: http://emailcharter.org -- Nancy Proctor, PhD Head of Mobile Strategy Initiatives Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education and Access Smithsonian Institution http://SI.edu/Mobile proctorn at si.edu @nancyproctor t: +1-202-633-8439 c: +1-301-642-6257 Want to mobilize? * Sign up for the SI Mobile mailing list here: http://si-listserv.si.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SIMOBILE * Visit our blog: http://Smithsonian20.si.edu and wiki: http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Mobile * Follow the museum mobile community: #SImobile #mtogo and at http://wiki.MuseumMobile.info To unsubscribe
[MCN-L] VALA2014 – Thought Leaders - Introducing 6 outstanding Keynote Speakers for VALA2014.
Dear Colleague, VALA* is pleased to announce an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers at VALA2014 (Melbourne, Australia - 3-6 February 2014):- ? Johan Bollen (Indiana University) ? Professor Christine Borgman (UCLA) ? Dr Kimberley Christen (Washington State University) ? Joe Murphy (libraryfuture) ? Mia Ridge (Open University, London) ? Gene Tan (National Library of Singapore) Breaking all the stereotypes and challenging our preconceptions, don?t miss a moment of VALA2014 in plenary. Registrations for VALA2014 will open on 2 September 2013 (early bird registrations available until 30 November). For more details of each of our keynote speakers, visit www.vala.org.au/keynote-speakers2014. Please feel free to share this email with interested colleagues. Lesley Ryall Executive Officer VALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. Reg No A0011933K ABN 75 344 574 577 P.O. Box 443 Warrandyte VIC 3113 Phone: (03) 9844 2933 Fax: (03) 9844 3191 Email: vala at vala.org.au *VALA - Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. was formerly known as the Victorian Association for Library Automation.
[MCN-L] Music for video productions
I'm wondering of anyone has suggestions as to where we can easily obtain high quality (but also royalty free) music tracks for use in our museum video productions. Many thanks for any advice you might have! Lisa Candage New Media Specialist The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
[MCN-L] Music for video productions
My crew uses the Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org/ Caveat: they say that the genre tags are a bit unreliable, and that you need to be patient and determined to search for the music you'll really like. Hint: they tell me that this page is the most useful for adding instrumental music for video: http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Video/ Best of luck, Douglas -- Douglas Hegley Director of Technology Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 870-3072 | dhegley at artsmia.org | www.artsmia.org On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Candage, Lisa Candage at frick.org wrote: I'm wondering of anyone has suggestions as to where we can easily obtain high quality (but also royalty free) music tracks for use in our museum video productions. Many thanks for any advice you might have! Lisa Candage New Media Specialist The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Music for video productions
The Free Music Archive has some great tunes that work great in video. You've got to dig, but you can find some neat stuff that avoids lots of tired background music tropes: http://freemusicarchive.org/ bk bryan kennedy director, exhibit media science museum of minnesota bkennedy at smm.org 651.221.2522 On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Candage, Lisa Candage at frick.org wrote: I'm wondering of anyone has suggestions as to where we can easily obtain high quality (but also royalty free) music tracks for use in our museum video productions. Many thanks for any advice you might have! Lisa Candage New Media Specialist The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Music for video productions
Dear Lisa, You could have a look at Jamendo or the Free Music Archive. To name a few. Best, Maarten Sent from my mobile phone Op 2 aug. 2013 om 16:46 heeft Candage, Lisa Candage at frick.org het volgende geschreven: I'm wondering of anyone has suggestions as to where we can easily obtain high quality (but also royalty free) music tracks for use in our museum video productions. Many thanks for any advice you might have! Lisa Candage New Media Specialist The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Music for video productions
If you run out of options on the free music sites, you could also turn to production library music. The costs generally aren't too much for web and museum delivery. We contract with a local vendor, Aaron Stokes Music and Sound to access music from four of the major production libraries: Firstcom, Killer Tracks, Warner Chappell and DeWolfe. We do a lot of video production, so we negotiated an annual blanket license amount with them based on an estimated number of cues. You can also just purchase cues on a per-use basis. Aaron Stokes hosts the music on q.aaronstokes.com to browse the music and sound effects libraries. I'm sure many other audio post houses have similar systems. --Jesse Jesse Heinzen Multimedia Director Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd West St. Paul, MN 55102 Ph: 651-259-3056 Fx: 651-297-8224 On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Maarten Brinkerink mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Dear Lisa, You could have a look at Jamendo or the Free Music Archive. To name a few. Best, Maarten Sent from my mobile phone Op 2 aug. 2013 om 16:46 heeft Candage, Lisa Candage at frick.org het volgende geschreven: I'm wondering of anyone has suggestions as to where we can easily obtain high quality (but also royalty free) music tracks for use in our museum video productions. Many thanks for any advice you might have! Lisa Candage New Media Specialist The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Music for video productions
Hi, Yes we do the same at Getty Images (http://www.gettyimages.ca/music). You can also purchase royalty-free music which has the great advantage of being reused how many times you wishes while paying once and cheap. Aude Aude Mathey Getty Images aude.mathey at gettyimages.com 514-577-9073 De?: Jesse Heinzen jesse.heinzen at mnhs.org ??: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Envoy? le : Vendredi 2 ao?t 2013 11h50 Objet?: Re: [MCN-L] Music for video productions If you run out of options on the free music sites, you could also turn to production library music.? The costs generally aren't too much for web and museum delivery.? We contract with a local vendor, Aaron Stokes Music and Sound to access music from four of the major production libraries: Firstcom, Killer Tracks, Warner Chappell and DeWolfe.? We do a lot of video production, so we negotiated an annual blanket license amount with them based on an estimated number of cues.? You can also just purchase cues on a per-use basis.? Aaron Stokes hosts the music on q.aaronstokes.com to browse the music and sound effects libraries.? I'm sure many other audio post houses have similar systems. --Jesse Jesse Heinzen Multimedia Director Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd West St. Paul, MN 55102 Ph: 651-259-3056 Fx: 651-297-8224 On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Maarten Brinkerink mbrinkerink at beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Dear Lisa, You could have a look at Jamendo or the Free Music Archive. To name a few. Best, Maarten Sent from my mobile phone Op 2 aug. 2013 om 16:46 heeft Candage, Lisa Candage at frick.org het volgende geschreven: I'm wondering of anyone has suggestions as to where we can easily obtain high quality (but also royalty free) music tracks for use in our museum video productions.? Many thanks for any advice you might have! Lisa Candage New Media Specialist The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ 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://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://mcn.edu/pipermail/mcn-l/
