Ari Davidow is Director of Online Strategy at the Jewish Women's Archive, a small virtual archive. The position allows him to knit together several important strands of his professional life. He began as a typographer decades ago, and found himself less interested (but not at all uninterested) in the aesthetics of perfect type than in finding ways to make more information available to more people more usefully. Equally important was his discovery that BBSs, and now the web, provide tools to create and strengthen community. Ari is looking forward to discussing what this all means and the tools that are making it possible.
Things aren’t usually this hard, but it has been a couple of years since several of us began talking about how nice it would be to get together with colleagues between MCN conferences (or, for the lucky among us, MCN and Museums and the Web). The first “northeast” SIG meeting is nigh. We’ll be getting [...]
Google has just announced an expansion of “Google for Non-Profits.” On paper, this is pretty slick–AdWords grants of up to $10k, access to Google Apps, access to nonprofit features on YouTube…. Beth Kantor has corraled some great descriptions and supporting blog posts at http://www.bethkanter.org/google4np/ We’re almost certain to apply, but my experience with Google’s non-profit [...]
One outgrowth of this year’s conference is that after years of discussion, several of us have agreed to ask the Board to approve a “Northeast” SIG as part of MCN. The idea is that we’ll hold at least one day-long regional meeting (I would amend that to “one regional meeting” for this coming year as [...]
it’s a very old concept of aggregation—one that most closely resembles the discovery that putting books in bookshops makes them significantly easier to find than expecting customers to come around to each publisher to see what is new—as opposed to sharing cultural heritage in the hopes of getting back comments, re-mixing, and new shared objects—as opposed, in many ways, to the idea that cultural heritage changes, and that one goal of cultural heritage institutions is to provide inspiration and tools for that ongoing change.
If you notice, as I have noticed, that organizations our size represent the “long tail” of our planet’s documented/preserved cultural history then this also means that for the first time we aren’t reliant on a few large museums gathering physical stuff into one place for access to this richness.
Whatever we’re doing with smartphones, we aren’t doing enough. We finally have a ubiquitous computing device that everyone seems to have, and seems to use as functional extensions of the brain and fingers.
I work for a women’s archive. This means that a great many of the people we write about have significant middle names. Unlike men, after all, women are often expected to give up their “maiden” names when they marry. This leads to interesting search problems. In most cases, however, a search in Google (or on [...]
One of the reasons that I post so seldom here is that oft-noticed problem of being over-extended. If you are going to MCN 2009 in Portland next month (and I hope you are), you’ll notice that I am involved in workshops on Cloud Computing, and a very special project of mine, “Project Management.” But, not [...]
Yesterday, my boss and I got to go talk about the Jewish Women’s Archive to a bunch of high school kids on a summer exploratory program at Brandeis University. It’s run by Lisa Colton, who is responsible for a host of things designed to make people aware of the web and how they can use [...]
I feel like I’ve really put my foot into yet another soggy area, e-communications. The laws of unintended entanglements are in full swing. A few years ago we noticed that we were having trouble getting our emails through spam filters. We wanted to use HTML email because it is prettier and people enjoy reading it [...]
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