When I was at the Skirball Cultural Center and we were testing out our new children’s exhibit Noah’s Ark my favorite tool was my camcorder. No one could say “I think they do this” or “I think they do that” because we saw what they were doing in the video. If you want to convince [...]
One of the interesting, and sometimes frustrating, things about this era of instant communication is how new ideas are adopted and modified within a very short time period. As a result, one good idea is used by twenty different people (or a hundred, or a thousand, or etc.) to create the same product, all with [...]
Really? This ho-hum non-headline on CNet heralds an article worth a glance, nevertheless. Am I just grumpy this morning, or is this nonsense getting out of hand? “Pirates in the Kitchen” First of all, how many times do people have to be told that recipes are not protected by copyright? Unless they have original literary [...]
I sent out a survey request last month to get some high level information on Museum visitor and online traffic, together with some indication of people and budget spent on museum websites. If you took part – I thank you very much, if you didn’t but would like to contribute please follow the link below [...]
Erin and Adam are two of the brightest people I know. And I worry about what the future holds for them in the museum world. I also wonder how the museum world wil survive if we alienate this generation of talented individuals between the ages of 22-40 by continuing to ignore a basic fact about them. Both are a [...]
One of the things I do at the Museums and the Web conference each year is to run the “usability lab,” a session of very short usability analyses of museum websites. Designed to introduce museum and information professionals to the principles of usability analysis in thirty minutes or less, the usability lab employs a “game [...]
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