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Exhibit Commons (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
Wayne LeBar from the Liberty Science Center (which is going through a major expansion) presented a work in progress today. They are trying to embrace media changes that are challenging the traditional authoritative voice of museums.
The idea of Liberty Science’s new project Exhibit Commons is to let web audiences impact installations on the museum floor. LeBar refers to that sort of activity as…
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Mobile Phones, a new way to engage teenagers… (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
This is my first attempt at live blogging my notes from Museums and the Web. The session is called Blogs, Pods and Mobiles.
Discusses her paper about targeting teenagers mobile educational programs. Cited a Pew study that says 57% of American teenagers have mobile phones. That seems like a surprisingly low number, but she described teenagers as the archetypal mobile super users (that’s a quote from…
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Viral Marketing for Museums (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
Martha De Vet from the Royal Cabinet of Painting Mauritshuis(staff of 40) in the Netherlands introduced the museum crowd to viral marketing by way of one of their museums viral marketing campaigns. The campaign was an email “blast” combined with an online game.
The gallery game featuring modified masterpieces. For instance the Girl with the Pearl Earring became the Girl with the Pearl Lip Ring…
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Visitor Voices (notes)
Media Lab
Mar 2006
The afternoon session at Museums and the Web that I’m at is all about Participation & Personalization. Mariana Salgado and Lily Diaz Kommonen kicked it off with a talk called “Visitor Voices”.
Their hypothesis is “Visitors can improve their learning experience through leaving comments in the exhibition.”
They showed ImaNote, a collaborative commenting software developed at the Media Lab in the…
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No more excuses
The Green Room
Mar 2006
Sorry, sorry, it’s a little crazy around here and though we try our hardest to be timely (i know, that’s the point of a blog, right?), the best intentions pave the way toyou know what. So, in response to Drew’s gentle nudging, here are a few crumbs:
Ali Farka Toure just passed away, which is heartbreaking to all of us here. He’s been a big influence on many of us, and clearly on Tinariwen, the Touareg band we…
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Walker at Museums and the Web 2006
Media Lab
Mar 2006
The Walker’s New Media Initiatives department is going to be down in New Mexico for a few days at Museums and the Web 2006. If you’re interested in the conference, their Drupal page promises to be a hotbed of internet activity and constant updates. The associated Flickr group could be interesting, and our own Webmaster put together a combined RSS feed to keep everyone up to date (thanks Nate).
