Bear with me as I waltz down memory lane for a bit… In 1993, during my first year as an undergraduate at a small liberal arts college in Maine, I discovered the Internet. The campus was deserted for Thanksgiving holiday, so I sought out the computer labs to set myself up with an email account [...]
At the recent Museums & the Web Conference, Perian and I decided that we needed some more regular content here at Musematic. Earlier this year Nina Simon at Museum 2.0 initiated “Game Friday.” Each week she’s provided thoughtful commentary on her work as an interactive designer and the potential for games in museums. With Musuems [...]
Over at Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories, they’ve posted an article about how to organize a collection using Flickr. The Brookyln Museum is already in the flow. How does Flickr become a tool for learning about how (potential) donors are collecting? Can it be used as a tool for connecting with audiences beyond User Generated Content [...]
I’m beginning to surf the web more and more on my smartphone – its a Treo in case you’re interested. My window to www is only 320 x 320, but the convenience is compelling. However, all that effort into those self-serving, all-singing, all-dancing, flash animations on a lot of home pages is completely wasted on [...]
Agreeing totally with Holly’s earlier post about the vital neccessity of taking a vacation, taking a break, taking a step back and contemplating the quietly beautiful things in life, I offer this suggestion to those searching for an anchor of peace and sanity amidst the madness: a brilliant webcam site that, by the way, offers [...]
We all want to work at Indianapolis Museum of Art–I was in so many inspiring sessions last week at Museums and the Web, theirs was just one of them. The folks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (with the catchy tagline, IMA – It’s My Art–I love that) did a session about their recent viral [...]
It may have just the end of a hard day, but something about this article from Wired struck me as inspiring. Especially since my own local public library’s technology resources consist of one computer, one photocopying machine, and a brand-new barcode reader. I have a soft spot for libraries, having grown up in one in [...]
I just returned home from the Museums and the Web 2007 conference in San Francisco. The conference was local to me this year, so returning home was a short BART ride into the East Bay. As happens with conferences, your brain is overflowing with ideas and snatches of topics to talk about with colleagues. At [...]
A quick post from Museums & the Web in San Francisco. A dead wireless card will keep me from doing any live posting, but you can follow along at the conference website which features live blogs and a Flickr set of conference images. http://conference.archimuse.com/
Okay, not really technical difficulties, let’s just call it burn-out. Many of us tend to get this way in January and February as we contemplate the new year (and all the things we didn’t get done last year), as we struggle to pull together the necessary documents needed to meet NEH/IMLS grant deadlines, as we [...]
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