[MCN-L] mcn-l Digest, Vol 86, Issue 19
This is very good advice about looking at the percentages of referral traffic, also if you are getting complaints about readability on mobile devices - then time to do something. Several nonprofit tech consultants were discussing the when and how to go mobile for nonprofits and the advice is summarized in this post: http://www.bethkanter.org/mobile-invest/ On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Andrew Lewis a.lewis at vam.ac.uk wrote: Hi I would start by looking at the mobile traffic to your own website breaks down, not the market in general. For us, Apple wipe the floor with everyone. Here's a typical month for mobile. Note this can include tablets and ipods. iPad is highest, iPhone second 1. iOS 152,456 80.99% 2. Android 29,410 15.62% 3. BlackBerry 4,606 2.45% 4. Windows Phone 1,019 0.54% 5. SymbianOS 471 0.25% 6. Nokia 164 0.09% 7. Samsung 53 0.03% 8. Sony17 0.01% 9. Windows 17 0.01% 10. Macintosh 12 0.01% BUT yours may well be totally different. The mobile usage is rising too, so check back from time to time Andrew Lewis Digital Content Delivery Manager Digital Media Team Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington London SW7 2RL 020 7942 2373 a.lewis at vam.ac.uk www.vam.ac.uk linkd.in/andrewlewis @rosemarybeetle ( https://twitter.com/rosemarybeetle ) mcn-l-request at mcn.edu 24/10/2012 13:00 Send mcn-l mailing list submissions to mcn-l at mcn.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mcn.edu/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: App stats (Frank E. Thomson) 2. Re: App stats (TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:44:24 -0400 From: Frank E. Thomson FThomson at ashevilleart.org To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] App stats Message-ID: 6905D9194DC5B6489FA18E7E0763D974AA0A887CD1 at server4.ashart.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii According to a study by ComScore more than 110 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones as of June 2012. Google's Android operating system remained the top mobile platform, accounting for 51.6% of smartphone subscribers, while Apple's iOS captured 32.4% of the market and Research in Motion's (RIMM) share fell to 10.7%. Rounding out the group was Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system and Symbian with 3.8% and 0.9%, respectively. Frank Thomson, Curator Asheville Art Museum PO Box 1717 Asheville, NC 28802 2 South Pack Square 828.253.3227 tel 828.257.4503 fax www.ashevilleart.org fthomson at ashevilleart.org Engaging, enlightening and inspiring individuals and enriching community through dynamic experiences in American Art of the 20th and 21st centuries since 1948. -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Holzer, Morgan Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 5:08 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] App stats Heather Marie- I just ran a quick search for July 1 - September 30, 2012, and these are the figures for the top 10 reported devices to www.metmuseum.org. In short: Apple Products: 841,858 Android Products: 64,174 1. Apple iPad: 481,215 2. Apple iPhone: 334,287 3. (not set): 48,198 4. SonyEricsson LT15i Xperia Arc: 40,090 5. Apple iPod Touch: 26,356 6. Samsung GT-I9100 Galaxy S II: 6,228 7. Samsung Galaxy Nexus: 4,894 8. Google Nexus S Samsung Nexus S: 4,605 9. Samsung SGH-T989: 4,302 10. HTC ADR6350 Droid Incredible 2: 4,055 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Heather Marie Wells Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 4:56 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] App stats Hello, We are looking at which platforms we offer our mobile app on and we are considering expanding into Android devices. I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share stats that they have for how many Android users they are severing and which Android devices you are seeing the most use from. Thanks, Heather Marie Heather Marie Wells Education Technology Coordinator 600 Museum Way Bentonville, AR 72712 479-418-5700 (main) CrystalBridges.org Find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/crystalbridgesmuseum ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer
[MCN-L] Announcing My New Book: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit
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[MCN-L] RIP Delicious
really sad and irritated .. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN TAMSEN_SCHWARTZMAN at exchange.fitnyc.edu wrote: Devastated!!! -- Tamsen Schwartzman Museum Media Manager The Museum at FIT, Room E116 Seventh Avenue at 27th Street New York, NY 10001 212~217~4547 ** 212~217~4561 fax http://www.fitnyc.edu/museum Visit our collections online at fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheMuseumAtFIT Follow us on Twitter @Museumatfit Opens March 8: Vivienne Westwood 1980-89 Closes April 2: Japan Fashion Now Closes May 20: His and Hers -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 4:37 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] RIP Delicious This makes me very sad indeed: http://gizmodo.com/5714292/rest-in-peace-delicious I spent a lot of time adding cultural heritage content and links and tutorials to Delicious. Maybe I should just migrate them to Zotero instead? Anyone else have any suggestions for a comparable service? The article linked to above offers some options for migrating your bookmarks. ___ 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/ ___ 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/ -- Beth's Blog Social Media and Nonprofits http://www.bethkanter.org The Networked Nonprofit is available on Amazon Now! http://bit.ly/networkednp Connect with me on Twitter @kanter!
[MCN-L] RIP Delicious
Just queried my twitter network and everyone is saying diigo ..B On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Perian Sully perian at emphatic.org wrote: This makes me very sad indeed: http://gizmodo.com/5714292/rest-in-peace-delicious I spent a lot of time adding cultural heritage content and links and tutorials to Delicious. Maybe I should just migrate them to Zotero instead? Anyone else have any suggestions for a comparable service? The article linked to above offers some options for migrating your bookmarks. ___ 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/ -- Beth's Blog Social Media and Nonprofits http://www.bethkanter.org The Networked Nonprofit is available on Amazon Now! http://bit.ly/networkednp Connect with me on Twitter @kanter!
[MCN-L] RIP Delicious
okay, just had write a post - http://www.bethkanter.org/rip-delicious/ also found out about pinboard.in - it's delicious! On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Chuck Patch chuck.patch at gmail.com wrote: I didn't. Glad I complained! On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Kaia Landon kaia at mesahistoricalmuseum.org wrote: So you didn't hear? Xmarks has since been taken over by LastPass: http://mashable.com/2010/12/02/xmarks-lastpass/ On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Chuck Patch chuck.patch at gmail.com wrote: The one that I'm crying over is more personally oriented - the death of Xmarks, which synchronizes bookmarks, passwords and open tabs on all your computers. This one program has saved me, conservatively, a billion hours. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Perian Sully perian at emphatic.org wrote: This makes me very sad indeed: http://gizmodo.com/5714292/rest-in-peace-delicious I spent a lot of time adding cultural heritage content and links and tutorials to Delicious. Maybe I should just migrate them to Zotero instead? Anyone else have any suggestions for a comparable service? The article linked to above offers some options for migrating your bookmarks. ___ 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/ -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-366-3613 ___ 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/ ___ 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/ -- Chuck Patch Museum Information Management Consulting 403 Edgevale Rd Baltimore MD 21210 410-366-3613 ___ 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/ -- Beth's Blog Social Media and Nonprofits http://www.bethkanter.org The Networked Nonprofit is available on Amazon Now! http://bit.ly/networkednp Connect with me on Twitter @kanter!
[MCN-L] Social Networking Guidelines
Hi Stephanie: The PowerHouse Museum one of the first museums to have a blogging policy http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2007/04/23/powerhouse-museums-official-blog-policy-april-2007/ and here is a post about updating it: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/04/14/updating-your-social-media-and-staff-blog-policies/ Also I've written about this topic and how it applies to nonprofits: Social Media and The Workplace: What Should Go In Your Social Media Policy http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/04/social-media-in-the-nonprofit-workplace-does-your-organization-need-a-policy.html Includes pointers to other nonprofit policies Social Media Usage Guidelines: Don't Moon Anyone With A Camera or At Least Hide Your Face While You Do It http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/06/more-on-social-media-policies-and-nonprofits-whats-your-best-advice-for-policy.html Policies are not enough, usage guidelines are important Red Cross Social Media Policy/Operational Handbook http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/07/red-cross-social-media-strategypolicy-handbook-an-excellent-model.html Example of policy and usage guidelines A Twitter Like Twitter Policy http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/06/a-twitterlike-twitter-policy.html My Posts on Social Media Policy Covers other issues http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/policy/ Beth Kanter Beth's Blog On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Stephanie Fisher SFisher at minnetrista.net wrote: I am putting together social networking guidelines for employees at our museum. ?Does your institution have a policy? Please share links and key ideas, if you can. Thanks! Stephanie Fisher ITS Coordinator Minnetrista 1200 North Minnetrista Pkwy Muncie, Indiana 47303 765-287-3509 www.minnetrista.net Minnetrista Cultural Center ?1200 MInnetrista Parkway ?Muncie, Indiana ?United States ___ 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/ -- Beth's Blog: http://beth.typepad.com Nonprofits and Social Media
[MCN-L] Use of Ning and similar Community of Practice tools
Here's a post I wrote about Ning and Nonprofit Use Best Practices http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/10/nonprofits-usin.html A guide from Masters for New MEdia http://www.masternewmedia.org/social_networking/social-media/create-your-social-network-with-Ning-20070306.htm Ning is not a wiki - if your goal is to aggregate resources or collaboratively write a document - ning is not the right tool Also, there are some other white label social network tools that are free - CollectiveX is more geared towards work teams - has calendar and other options http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/wlsn_comparison_chart.html It all depends on what you want to accomplish Beth On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Ari Davidow aridavidow at gmail.com wrote: I should clarify--I wasn't looking for a Museum or Cultural Heritage site CoP, per se--I love archimuse and several of the others that have been mentioned here. I was asking specifically about use of Ning (or related services such as grou.ps) for various networking and CoP purposes. For those who have used Ning, and the like, what problems were you trying to solve, and did/does Ning solve that problem? ari On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:38 PM, j trant jtrant at archimuse.com wrote: hi Ari, there are now more than 1400 users registered at http://conference.archimuse.com -- the online site we've created with drupal for the museums and the web conference community. while contributions are cyclical, related to the rhythms of the meeting, the traffic on the site, particularly the bibliography of past papers, is constant. ... At 12:20 PM -0500 11/10/08, Ari Davidow wrote: Is anyone using Ning or grou.ps to help pull together intranet activity or Community of Practice (or general community)? I keep hearing about these tools, but have no sense how they are being used or which, of the many issues I am grappling with, they address (if any). ___ 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 -- Beth's Blog: http://beth.typepad.com Nonprofits and Social Media
[MCN-L] Twitter?
If anyone is using Twitter for listening, I have a tip sheet here http://socialmedia-listening.wikispaces.com/Project+1 B On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Beck Tench beck.tench at ncmls.org wrote: We're using Twitter at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC. I'm trying to make it a what it's like to be at the museum everyday snack bite of information. We've got about 70 followers in a little over two months. I've tweeted with a visitor while he was here and we ran a #hanna tweet experiment, asking folks to tweet their weather conditions using the Beaufort scale (which is something we have an exhibit on). We've also had a retweet of a particularly funny animal dept. blog post and I have tracked traffic on our site relative to tweet days/times and we're seeing small spikes. http://twitter.com/lifeandscience Small successes, but they've all been feel good ones. Beck Tench Director of Web Experience Museum of Life + Science http://lifeandscience.org (919) 475-3421 On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Chuck Patch chuck.patch at gmail.com wrote: Hi Perian, One potential use of Twitter that may only be relevant to folks living in disaster-prone areas is for post -disaster communications. I wish we had this following Katrina a few years ago when the cell network was on its knees for weeks. Here's a video that describes its use for that purpose: http://tinyurl.com/yq93w2 https://204.213.35.27/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://tinyurl.com/yq93w2 Chuck Patch On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Smith, Koven Koven.Smith at metmuseum.org wrote: The Brooklyn Museum (@brooklynmuseum) and Columbus Museum of Art (@columbusmuseum) are both using Twitter to communicate with their audiences. Brooklyn Museum's stream has pointed me to some really interesting stuff over the past year. Incidentally, I've been playing with Twitter Stream Graphs of late, which is actually how I discovered the Columbus Museum of Art's stream: http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php Twitter Stream Graphs parses out the relevant concepts from tweets, aggregates them, and graphs them over time, so you can see what people are posting about and when. I graphed Metropolitan Museum of Art just to see what was interesting about us to the Twitter community, and found a relative paucity of postings until the opening of the Poiret show in late August, then a settling down again, followed by a huge explosion in postings when our new director was named. I guess it's a little geeky, but still really fascinating. Koven J. Smith Associate Manager of Interpretive Technology The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028-0198 (212) 396-5063 koven.smith at metmuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Anna Holloway Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:19 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Twitter? We've experimented with Twitter, Pounce, Tumblr and Plurk - but only as a means for communicating with staff and interns to this point. We're hoping to launch a Mariners' tweet later in the fall - but so far we've only used it internally. That said, there's definite potential there to keep visitors/members engaged! Anna Holloway, Vice President, Collections Programs The Mariners' Museum 757-591-7740 757-591-7312 (fax) The USS Monitor Center - Now Open!!! An Ironclad Promise of Adventure visit us at www.marinersmuseum.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:12 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter? Alright, alright, I'm slow to the game, but are any of your institutions using Twitter to communicate with your audience? I haven't used it myself, and only just set up an account to try and check it out. How is it working for you? Is it one-way communication between you and your followers, or are they able to interact with you in some way? How have you found this to be effective? Thanks in advance for any help or insight! Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum 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
[MCN-L] Creative Commons
Amalyah: Here's two: http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/6061 http://za.creativecommons.org/blog/archives/2004/10/18/aids-museum-project-thinks-about-copyright/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/johncollierjr/ - note photos use cc licenses http://americanimage.unm.edu/collection.html not sure how far along these are: http://www.mda.org.uk/pr060224.htm http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Deborah I've been doing some training about open content/cc licenses for nonprofits and I'm also a contributor over at icommons.org on nonprofits and cc. I have some resources and examples (not museums) here: http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/penguinday2007 Beth On 7/8/07, Amalyah Keshet akeshet at imj.org.il wrote: Is anyone out there using Creative Commons licenses for museum or archive images? If so, which version(s) of the licenses are you using? And are you finding it to be useful? Many thanks for anything you might be willing to share on this subject. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net ___ 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 -- Beth Kanter Social Media and Nonprofits: Trainer, Coach, and Consultant Beth's Blog: http://beth.typepad.com Beth's Wiki: http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com
[MCN-L] Museums on Facebook? Examples?
Hi there, Wondering if there any museums with a Facebook profile/group? Anyone doing anything interesting on Facebook? Beth Kanter
[MCN-L] I stepped into a Van Gogh Painting in Second Life
This isn't from a museum, but a virtual worlds developer. They created an interactive exhibit where you explore and wander around inside of Van Gogh's paintings. What do you think? http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/05/step_into_a_van.html
[MCN-L] Google Analytics for Museum Web Sites
Hi Folks, I'm working on a screencast about using Google Analytics for nonprofit web sites and seeking some examples and stories of how you may have used Web analytics data to make changes in your web site or marketing. Specifically, I'm looking for some real life examples of these reports: Key Report #1: Referring Search Terms From Search Engines The report that tells you which search phrases people are using to find your site tells you a lot about your users. Key Report #2: Referring URLs Look at the report that tells you which Web sites are sending you traffic. Does this correspond to your expectations? Key Report #3: Content Popularity It's essential to view the list of Top 10 (or 15) most popular pages on your site. Knowing what content is being consumed can lead you to so many insights, Kaushik says. What are people coming to my Web site for? Are the things that I want to promote actually the things that people are looking at? Key Report #4: Percent of Visitors Who Visit the Home Page This metric often shocks site owners. They think that everyone sees the homepage, so they put their maximum energies and promotion there. But since search engines display a site's internal pages, most users enter a site far from the home page. Key Report #5: Site Overlay Wouldn't you love it if you could open your site and see exactly where people are clicking? With the Site Overlay report you can. It displays your actual pages - just as they look to users - with a click level indicator next to each link. It shows the number of people who click on each link. Key Report #6: Site Bounce Rate The Bounce Rate report reveals the number of visitors who stayed just a few seconds. These are the people who came to your site but didn't engage. In short, your bounce rate is your failure rate. Here's the full background - if you want to learn more/. Screencast Script: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/04/screencast_trea.html How to Measure Your Blog's Success: Part 1: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/05/measuring_your_.html Part 2: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/05/i_disagree_with.html About Search Key Word Refferrals: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/05/what_does_googl.html
[MCN-L] Yahoo's flickr
Hi there, I love flickr! Many nonprofits are using it to share photos internally as well as externally for promotion, outreach, and marketing, parpticularly user-generated content contests. I'm the moderator of an NTEN affinity group on nonprofits and flickr - it's a listserv if you'd like join. Anyway, at the NTC Conference, we're having a meet up and I put together a comprehensive list of resources about how flickr is being used as well as some how to tips. You'll find it here: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/03/flickr_affinity.html Beth -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of T. Patrick Brennan Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:51 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Yahoo's flickr Once you have a website it is really easy to do a ftp. We have one working and post all our site plans and file photos. Volunteers and guides are given the login information to use as training. Patrick T.Patrick Brennan Sr. Director of Properties The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation 1516 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Ga 30309-2916 direct 404.885.7814 fax 404.875.2205 TPBrennan at GeorgiaTrust.org -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Jansonius, Remko (Vizcaya) Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:01 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Yahoo's flickr Dear Colleagues, I am looking into ways to share images with colleagues within my institution, as well as deliver images in various resolution / formats with scholars, publishers, etc. elsewhere in the world. I realize that ultimately we need to set up something via our website, or some type of ftp. In the meantime I am looking at Yahoo's flickr. Do you have experience with it, or can you think of any particular reason why not to use this? In a way it looks to me like a very good temporary solution, but it might be too good to be true. Any ideas? Thank you! Remko Jansonius Vizcaya Museum and Gardens ___ 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 ___ 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] Fwd: folksonomy article
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/beneath_the_metadata_a_reply.html -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Leming Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 1:02 PM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article Along those lines... I have always found that filtering the log of a website for search transactions is an invaluable and interesting tool for assessing the content the site is delivering. Particularly useful are reasonable searches that returned no results for they are an indicator of content gaps. I think that folksonomies can be useful to formal classification structures in a similar way. For example, asking the residents of Philadelphia to pitch in on building the set of micro-neighborhoods (The Brickyard, The Valley, etc) within the standard (and beloved!) set (Germantown, Old City, Northern Liberties, ...) might add a vibrant layer to the structure of an oral history site. I think we all agree that we are grateful for the formal structures and the intellectual heavy lifting they represent. I expect we also all agree that they reflect their time and their architects and that they need to evolve. My suggestion - let the Classifiers and the Folksonomers sit down at a Tavern twice a year and work it out. Bob Leming Rock River Star -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 11:28 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article Well said. As Mal Booth replied, folksonomy can scare some people. I think that kind of gets to the crux of the matter, seeing as the library and archives people (and a lot of museums, too!) have done such a fantastic job of classifying everything, and now here's this upstart way of thinking about naming stuff which threatens to undermine that tidy order! Given the shifting nature of language, it would seem to me that folksonomy would assist classification systems - identifying terminologies which are outmoded and outdated. After all, isn't the whole point to help people find and identify stuff? How can they do that if they don't know the words something is classified under? Thus, getting to that hybrid model Nick was suggesting, folksonomy is certainly an aid and not a hindrance. Perian Sully Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum Berkeley, CA Nick Poole nick at mda.org.uk 20/11/2006 4:39 am Jeanette et al, I was really interested in the post around the 'Beneath the Metadata' article. I actually think the article has some pretty deep flaws. First of all, it is not entirely clear why you would apply these philosophical constructs to Folksonomy in the first place and secondly I don't think it helps to further the understanding of what Folksonomy and 'traditional' cataloguing are and how they might work together. The article essentially says that classification is about absolutes - this horse is white, that box is empty - whereas Folksonomy is about subjectivity and relativism. It goes on to compare classification with propositional logic and states that Folksonomy by its nature gives rise to logical contradiction. It strikes me that this misses a significant part of the real value of the approach. In her article, Elaine Peterson says that when we catalogue, we are asking the question 'What is it?'. I couldn't disagree more. What we are really asking is 'What are we going to call this thing (and things relevantly similar to it)?'. In this sense, 'traditional' classification is an act of collective relativism, and is equally subject to the flaws of subjectivity as Folksonomy. I have no doubt that the wave around Folksonomy will eventually pass, and I very much hope that what will be left is an enriched approach to professional classification. There is considerable strength in a hybrid approach which retains the intellectual rigour of ontological standardisation but which equally recognises the additional potential value of large-scale subjective term-attribution. For example, would it not validate our professional beliefs if the subjective interpretations of tens of thousands of people translated up into patterns of meaning which confirmed them? And similarly, if they don't, wouldn't there be considerable value in asking why not? Finally, whatever the linguistic consistency or validity of folksonomic thesauri, we must never underestimate the importance of letting people in. The act of tagging is only partly to do with classification. It is an affirmative act which says 'I want to be involved' and for that alone, it is of tremendous value. Nick Poole Director Museum Documentation Association Nick Poole Director MDA The Spectrum Building, The Michael Young Centre, Purbeck Road, Cambridge, CB2
[MCN-L] TechSoup Second Life Event and Intro for Newbies
Hi Everyone: I've been working with a group of nonprofit technology folks and TechSoup to research the possibilities of nonprofit participation in Second Life. There will be a mixed reality event next Tuesday, July 18th at 6:00 p.m PST. See: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/07/announcing_the_.html Curious about Second Life, but totally new to virtual worlds? That's why we're hosting a very informal newbie introduction on Friday, July 14th at 2:00 EST. Several educational technology folks who have mentored newcomers will be there as well as a few nonprofit representatives. Before you attend, sign up for a second life account at http://www.secondlife.com and build your avatar. Then join us in-world at the TechSoup Office by clicking this link: http://tinyurl.com/ogbpd For more newbie and How-To information, check out the Second Life wiki: http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=How-Tos Beth Kanter Beth Kavka in Second Life P.S. I just did an interview with Jeska Linden, Community Manager for Second Life. She has some interesting comments re: museums in second life http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/07/an_interview_wi.html
[MCN-L] Are there any real-life museums on Second Life?
Hi Folks, I've been researching the possibilities for nonprofits on Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), the virtual world. I'm participating in some in-world projects that TechSoup is organizing around nonprofits in SL. There will be an event later this month and we're starting to compile a directory of nonprofits using it. You can see the directory here (http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=aptcrhmkxkv_bcjvrhrc2vgbq) So far, I've seen some museums in second life - created by residents, but not any real life museums there - there may be, but haven't run across it. The San Jose Art Museum is building a virtual Island for display of virtual art works being sought from SL http://www.ludica.org.uk/NewWest/ The event will coincide with ZeroOne Festival http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/Grabbed from comments in blog post here: I'm wondering if any of you are investigating the possibilities or doing any projects. There a huge community of educators (320) from universities, some teen education projects, a library project, and embryonic nonprofit presence. I've written up what I learn on my blog here: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/npsl/index.html Beth
[MCN-L] Are there any real-life museums on Second Life?
to see you in the audience in Pasadena! Richard Urban Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rjurban at uiuc.edu http://www.inherentvice.net -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Swiader, Larry Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:31 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Are there any real-life museums on Second Life? Hi Beth, We've been doing some thinking here at the Holocaust Museum on what a presence on Second Life might be like (and mean). My colleague, David Klevan (dklevan at ushmm.org), our Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning, is at the forefront of that thinking. It'd be nice to put our heads together. Regards, Larry Lawrence Swiader Deputy Chief Information Officer United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Beth Kanter Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:48 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Are there any real-life museums on Second Life? Hi Folks, I've been researching the possibilities for nonprofits on Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com), the virtual world. I'm participating in some in-world projects that TechSoup is organizing around nonprofits in SL. There will be an event later this month and we're starting to compile a directory of nonprofits using it. You can see the directory here (http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=aptcrhmkxkv_bcjvrhrc2vgbq) So far, I've seen some museums in second life - created by residents, but not any real life museums there - there may be, but haven't run across it. The San Jose Art Museum is building a virtual Island for display of virtual art works being sought from SL http://www.ludica.org.uk/NewWest/ The event will coincide with ZeroOne Festival http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/Grabbed from comments in blog post here: I'm wondering if any of you are investigating the possibilities or doing any projects. There a huge community of educators (320) from universities, some teen education projects, a library project, and embryonic nonprofit presence. I've written up what I learn on my blog here: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/npsl/index.html Beth ___ 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
Re: Podcasting - Recreating the Museum Tour
There has been a lot of activity in podcasting field trips to museums in schools -- I found a few interesting links and blogged them. http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/05/remix_moma_part.html Also, David Gilbert has bookmarked all the articles related to this project and you might find a few other examples http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/05/thats_art_mobs_.html And, if you are in NYC, there is a NYC podcasting group where a few folks had done this ... I'd be interested in learning about other examples as well as blogging, wikis, and mobs ... Beth -Original Message- From: Matt Morgan [mailto:matt.mor...@brooklynmuseum.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:40 AM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Re: Podcasting - Recreating the Museum Tour On 05/28/2005 04:23 PM, amalyah keshet wrote: ...The exchange sounded a lot more like MTV than Modern Art 101, but ...it had a few things to recommend it. It was free. It didn't involve the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a nightstick. And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA, downloaded onto her own iPod... ...Specifically, these museum guides are an outgrowth of a recent podcasting trend called sound seeing, in which people record narrations of their travels - walking on the beach, wandering through the French Quarter - and upload them onto the Internet for others to enjoy. In that spirit, the creators of the unauthorized guides to the Modern have also invited anyone interested to submit his or her own tour for inclusion on the project's Web site, mod.blogs.com/art_mobs http://mod.blogs.com/art_mobs... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/arts/design/28podc.html How long before we see the new business model: a community web site for user-supplied tour uploads and free redistribution (ad-supported of course) of audio tours for museums, tourist destinations, etc.? It would be nice to see a museum web site offer this service for its visitors. Was it on Gail Durbin's list of 50 ways for a museum site to be two-way? We had a little system crash last week and I haven't had a chance to read it yet. Or is anyone already doing this? I have always hoped that our PocketMuseum project would be used not just on the handhelds we supply, but also on visitors' own web-enabled handhelds. But there are a lot more mp3 players out there than web-enabled handhelds (for now). This would be a much quicker path to getting visitors to take advantage of their own devices. --Matt --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: b...@bethkanter.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Blogging in Museums?
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has been blogging or using blogs or the other mobile, social software in a museum context? I did find an interesting project called Art Mobs -- users create their ipod audio guides for the MOMA and they are available via podcasting. If you know of other examples of use of blogs and this technology in museums, please leave a comment on my blog. Thanks http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2005/05/thats_art_mobs_.html --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
Kiosk Software
Hi folks, A colleague of mind is working with a museum on a technology plan and looking for advice about Kiosk Software. Any thoughts? Thanks - Does anyone have any recommendations for setting up informational kiosks? I'm working with an arts organization that wants to set up interactive kiosks in their lounge that will allow guests to look at information, listen to music, view interactive art exhibits, leave feedback and signup for newsletters etc. My gut suggestion is that the easiest thing to do will be to buy some workstations and set it up on a Web platform. It seems that it would be the easiest way to have the flexibility they're looking for. My main concern is the security of this setup, and I'm wondering if there are simplified kiosk operating systems available that limit functionality and access. By default these would be iMacs, because they're a mac based organization and I think the new iMacs would give a nice look and feel. My main concern is how to secure them from an OS/software perspective, not so much a physical perspective. We're certainly not tied to the Mac platform, and if anyone has any good suggestions for other kiosk setups I'm open to hearing about them, perhaps a stripped down Web/based OS? Everything I've looked at so far was both expensive and not particularly likely to meet all their needs. Any recommendations appreciated. --- -Original Message- From: quigley [mailto:squi...@panix.com] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:59 PM To: mcn-l@mcn.edu Subject: Re: Photo services? Richard, Check with Mikki Carpenter at MoMA NYC. She has recently begin using a service to manage requests. Suzanne Quigley Head Registrar, Collections Exhibitions Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021 v: 212 570 7795 f: 212 570 7784 E: suzanne_quig...@whitney.org On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 09:53 PM, Richard Urban wrote: Hello, The Colorado Digitization Program is interested in hearing from cultural heritage institutions who are using a photo service to handle reproduction requests. We are particularly interested in projects who are sharing the service among several institutions and who are providing prints from digital surrogates (rather than film). Thanks, Richard Urban Operations Coordinator Colorado Digitization Program rur...@du.edu http://www.cdpheritage.org --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: b...@bethkanter.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
[MCN-L] Net Neutrality
There's an open source documentary going around about Net Neutrality The first cut was created with clips found on YouTube, Blip.TV, etc. Folks are downloading it, remixing it, and spreading it as a sort of exquisite corpse advocacy effort. I have the first and second versions plus some links to good materials for nonprofits: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2006/11/net_neutrality_.html -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:14 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Net Neutrality fortunately this article was written in April. The new Democratic congress will try again when it convenes Perian Sully Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum Berkeley, CA Mike Rippy wrote: Republicans defeat Net neutrality proposal http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6058223.html Explains Net Neutrality a bit more. ___ 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 -- Perian Sully Collection Database and Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-6950 x 335 ___ 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
