[MCN-L] Recommend us sign at the museum?
Hello, We consider putting a Recommend us! sign at the exit of the museum in order to remind visitors to do so in social networks. Do you have such a sign or another method for reminding visitors to recommend your museum? If you do, can you please send a link to an image? If you have considered doing so and decided against it, can you please specify why? Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen - Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem __ Information from ESET Endpoint Antivirus, version of virus signature database (20131007) __ The message was checked by ESET Endpoint Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
[MCN-L] Visitors survey kiosks - looking for good examples
Hello, We are re-designing our visitors survey kiosk and we are looking for good examples. The physical station is already built. We are thinking about the callouts: - What language and graphics will get us more responses? - What passerby visitors should see when the kiosk is sleeping? If you have a good example at your museum, we would love to see a photo. BTW - we want to develop a short laser light show that will run when the visitor completes the survey. We want kids to ask their parents to fill the survey so they also will get their lightshow. Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen - Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem | mada.org.ilhttp://www.mada.org.il/ - Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitterhttp://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem __ Information from ESET Endpoint Antivirus, version of virus signature database 8460 (20130617) __ The message was checked by ESET Endpoint Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
[MCN-L] Uploading by the public using Bluetooth
Hi, Here's a crazy idea that I would like to get some feedback on. A kiosk in the museum that invites the public to share their experiences at the museum. The computer has an open Bluetooth connection accepting uploads. The computer is not connected to anything for security's sake. Once in a while, the files are checked and uploaded to the museums' Facebook page or some other website. This method has some benefits and solves some problems. Benefits: - No need for internet connection - No need to log into anything Problems: - Not everybody know how to use Bluetooth - Security Any thoughts on this? Do you know if it was tried anywhere and what were the results? Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen | Webmaster | Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem | mada.org.il
[MCN-L] Google grants for museums?
Hi, Did your museum receive a Google Grant for advertising on Google? What kind of ads were approved? Are visit the museum ads acceptable by Google or do they require something more soft like participate in our educational program for teachers? Was your application for receiving a Google Grant rejected? If it was rejected, for what reasons? If you don't know what I am talking about, read about Google Grants here - http://www.google.com/grants/ Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen | Webmaster | Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem | mada.org.ilhttp://www.mada.org.il/ - Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitterhttp://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Instant image uploading to Facebook?
Hi, We are about to run an event here and we want to *instantly* upload photos from the event to an album on our Facebook page. We will hire a professional photographer to take pictures in a certain spot at the museum. The photographer will take a few shots of the person. His camera will be connected to a computer via a USB cable. He will choose the best shot of a person and save the image to the computer. This is as far as I have reached. Now I need a piece of software that will listen to a folder and when it finds a new file will *instantly* upload it to a specific album in our FB page. Do you know of a solution for this? Have you done something similar in your museum? I have read a bit and found that even though there are apps that upload images to FB, each image is waiting in a queue for a manual approval. Do you know anything about this? Can it be overridden in a way? Maybe there is a way to upload the images to a page in our website where people can find theirs and share it on their profile? Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen | Webmaster | Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem | mada.org.ilhttp://www.mada.org.il/ - Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitterhttp://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Touchpads anyone?
Thanks, We have installed the Ergonomic Touchpad on one of our computerized exhibits. We have found out that whoever used a touch interface (laptops and smartphones) felt comfortable with it. Young kids and older people didn't know how to use it. http://www.ergonomictouchpad.com/xl_touchpad.php Regarding durability, the maker wrote me his products are also used in public places and that he had no complaints or returns. We will use this touchpad in two exhibitions that are in development now and see how it goes. We have found heavy duty touchpads but they are quite expensive and we are not sure we need them. http://www.indukey.com/shop/shop/CURSORSTEUERUNG/MZFP/MZGTOUCH.html?star t=0sel=KH02007 I hope to remember and report on the results here. --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Elton Prater Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:06 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Touchpads anyone? We have six keosks currently running with touch pads as well as 4 trackballs. Most of the time they are great, but they do have a quite a bit higher failure rate than a good trackball. I suspect they are getting static zapped. Of course it may make a difference that we are using consumer grade pads (Cirque Easy Cat). You need to make sure to disable the right click on them either in software or mechanically, unless there is a reason to leave it accessible. Another advantage to the touch pad, at least over the standard Hap trackball is they don't mind being mounted on an angled surface. I tried a 45 degree panel with a trackball, and it wouldn't work at all. Elton Prater Exhibits/IT Mgr. Science Spectrum Lubbock, TX On 8/11/2010 11:38 AM, Hanan Cohen wrote: Hello, We are considering the use of a touchpad instead of a trackball in a computerized exhibit in development. Does anyone here have any good/bad experience with touchpads used by the public? What model/s do/did you use? Thanks, Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem ___ 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/
[MCN-L] Touchpads anyone?
Hello, We are considering the use of a touchpad instead of a trackball in a computerized exhibit in development. Does anyone here have any good/bad experience with touchpads used by the public? What model/s do/did you use? Thanks, Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
[MCN-L] off topic : U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype
Hi, Watch this video. It's a sit down Segway by Honda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ At the end of the video, you can see it used in a museum. An old school with an old school printed catalogue. Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il http://www.mada.org.il/en/ - Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitter http://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Facebook is just sloppy
Hi, I wrote about my experience/frustration while working with Facebook and my conclusion about the past and future of the company. http://info.org.il/english/facebook_is_just_sloppy.html Would love to get your comments. --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il http://www.mada.org.il/en/ - Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitter http://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Vatican Chooses Open FITS Image Format
The Vatican Library http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/04/20/news/biblioteca_vaticana -3489668/ plans to digtize 80,000 manuscripts http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/archives.html and store them in the open data format FITS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS , originally developed for astronomy and maintained under the IAU http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/iaufwg/ . The result is expected to be 40 million pages and 45 petabytes http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2010/03/8-vatican-m ss-to-be-digitized.html . FITS was chosen because it 'has been used for more than 40 years for the conservation of data concerning spatial missions and, in the past decade, in astrophysics and nuclear medicine. It permits the conservation of images with neither technical nor financial problems in the future, since it is systematically updated by the international scientific community.' via slashdot http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/28/1814221/Vatican-Chooses-Open -FITS-Image-Format --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il http://www.mada.org.il/en/ - Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitter http://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Downloading from Youtube
Hi, We have a Youtube channel with educational videos intended to be used by teachers in class. http://www.youtube.com/madajerusalem Since not all classes are online, I would like to publish a page that helps teachers with downloading our videos. There are two approaches to this that I know of. Both of them I don't like. They are unstable and can be intimidating to non-techies. 1. Websites that help you download videos - they move all the time and Google sometimes block them. I don't want to check them constantly and update our site. 2. Browsers addons - I feel teachers will find downloading and installing software too hard. Also, from what I have seen so far, I don't really trust them. (I use http://www.downloadhelper.net/ for Firefox but I have seen some questionable software for IE) Do you know of any other option I can offer? Thanks, Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
[MCN-L] Evaluation of computerized exhibitions
Hello, Our museum takes part in a European project called My Ideal City http://www.myidealcity.eu/project/ http://www.myidealcity.eu/project/ In each of the museums taking part in the project there will be computers that show a virtual reality realization of a city. The visitors will stroll in this virtual reality environment and interact with digital objects or other visitors. We are responsible for evaluating in the project. Since we haven't evaluated a networked/computerized exhibition until now, we are looking for prior experience. We will probably get statistical information from the system and this is not the problem. The problem is trying to figure out before we start - WHAT SHOULD WE ASK OURSELVES? What are the criteria that we would want to test? If you have any experience or know of museums that did such evaluation, I would love to get a link or a reference to people we should contact. Even if you don't have prior experience, any thoughts from the top of your heads are most welcome. Thanks, --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il http://www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
[MCN-L] Project management systems for inter-organizational cooperation
Hello, We at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem are taking part in a number of international projects. Managing and participating in these projects using Email is becoming hard. We are considering two solutions - Google Groups (with other Google tools) and http://huddle.net Both have pros and cons. If any of you is using those tools for this purpose or use other tools, we would love to hear your opinions. Thanks, Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
[MCN-L] EnterMedia Digital Asset Management
Hello, This just passed through my browser so I thought I would share it with you. I have no personal experience with this system. OpenEdit's EnterMedia Digital Asset Management * 100% Web Based - Open Source - FREE to Download * Archive, Manage, Share and Track your Digital Files * No Client Licenses - Unlimited Users * Handles Thousands of Users and Millions of Assets http://entermediasoftware.com/ --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il http://www.mada.org.il/en/ - Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/-/127569645760 - Twitter http://twitter.com/madajerusalem - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/madajerusalem
[MCN-L] Personalized exhibits
Hello We are at the planning phase of an exhibition about testing and measurement. We are contemplating the relationships between activities on the web and the exhibition. It can go two ways (or both): 1. Identify yourself and interact with the exhibits. When you return home, identify yourself at a website and continue the interaction based on what you gained at the exhibition. 2. Begin an identified interaction on the web. When you come to the exhibition, identify yourself and continue the interaction based on what you gained on the web. What we would like to know is whether this kind of relationships of web-exhibition had been done and what insights were gained. Any information will be most appreciated. --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem www.mada.org.il - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube
[MCN-L] Twitter Analytics
Use http://bit.ly to shorten the URLs in your tweets and get click statistics for each URL. If you post links to your site, add a meaningless parameter to the URL in order to track incoming click from Twitter. Somthing like http://example.com/page.html?source=twitter And while we are at it - I highly recommend http://cotweet.com . Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem http://mada.org.il/en/ ???: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu ??? John Bedard : ? 07/08/2009 16:21 ??: mcn LISTSERV : [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics We are looking for a way to get Twitter analytics like we can get for Flicker. It tells us which specific posts are the most successful and what time of day people pay the most attention to us etc. Any Suggestions? Thanks John John R. Bedard | Director of Information Systems Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2400 Third Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404 612-870-3268 | JBedard at artsmia.org | www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ ) ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu 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/
[MCN-L] Who manages your social media presence?
Shalom, I am the Webmaster, Photographer, Videographer, Youtuber, Facebooker and Twitterer. In a short while I will also be the Museum Blogger. The head of PR sits a few tabels away from mine. The museum director sits a few tables away from her. I overhear what's happening in the office (open space!) and update everything accordingly. --- Hanan Cohen Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem http://mada.org.il/en -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Melissa Kinkley Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:40 PM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Who manages your social media presence? Dear all, In your museum, does your PR/Marketing staff manage your presence on flickr, youtube, facebook, your blogs, etc. or someone else? If you have one, how does your New Media team interface with PR/Marketing? Thanks, Melissa Melissa H. Kinkley Manager of New Media Family Interpretation Smart Museum of Art University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 ph. 773.702.2362 fax 773.702.3121 http://smartmuseum.uchicago.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 The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Production value of online content
Shalom, Following some helpful feedback from this list and others in the museum, I have tried to make the video better. After some struggling with several video editors, I have found a rare example of good, fast cheap. The Corel Video Studio X2 is a 90$ video editor that can do basic editing + not so basic on a not-the-top-of-the-line PC. And the quality of the result is much much better than the basic Microsoft Movie Maker. Uploaded the new file to Youtube which looks much better and can also be viewed in High Quality. http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=18r2a35r4GU Hanan Cohen - Webmaster The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem http://www.mada.org.il
[MCN-L] Production value of online content
Shalom, First, please take a look at a short new video I have just uploaded to YouTube showing an exhibit at the Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem. http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=x7yDZd8oug0 http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=x7yDZd8oug0 It has very low production value. I shot it once, in sub-optimal lighting conditions, added some simple video effects, slapped opening and closing titles and added a soundtrack I have downloaded from http://ccmixter.org/ http://ccmixter.org/ This is one way of doing it. (The curator of the exhibition was very pleased with it.) Another way would have been to hire a video production company, write a script, have multiple back-and-forth discussions with them and then show it with fanfare. What I wonder is if online content, that just does the job but has low production value, is the right path to take. Does it undermine the public image of the museum? Is accessible, fast and cheap, social media presence good for our outreach efforts? I am not sure where we should draw the line and invest in production of online content. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks, Hanan Cohen - Webmaster The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem http://www.mada.org.il
[MCN-L] Go to page number
Shalom, Since this is my first post to this list I will introduce myself. My name is Hanan Cohen and I am the new Webmaster of the Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem, Israel. http://www.mada.org.il/en/ . I am new in the sense that I have been a short time on this job and also in the sense that I am new to museums as a professional. One of the issues I have been thinking about since starting here is how to connect the physical world to the web. We know there is a problem of directing people from paper to web and also from speech to web. At the most, we direct people to a top directory and they somehow manage from there. The Bloomfield Science Museum strives to be an educational resource for its visitors - the general public and the formal education system. Writing long URL's on paper in order to propose content on our site to our audience is a problem. Then I had an idea. Every page on our site has a unique, short ID. I have created a new box that is displayed on every page. The box says go to page number:, has an input line and below that current page number: wxyz When I want to direct someone to a page, all I have to do is see in what page number I am at and write or say a short number. The recipient just has to type a short number and go directly to the intended page. No need to type a long URL or click through menus. Now, we at the museum, will have to learn how to use this feature in our publications, displays and daily use of the website. It's a whole new way of thinking which we will have to develop. I hope the new feature will really solve the problem it tackles. I would be grateful for any feedback on this solution and its implementation. Currently, there isn't much English content on the site. To get a better experience of the page number idea, I suggest visiting the Exhibitions section. Thanks, Hanan Cohen - Webmaster Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem http://www.mada.org.il
