One of the really wild things at Museums and the Web 2007 was a demonstration booth from the National Science Museum, Japan. At the booth were a series of paper pop up dinosaurs. By themselves the dinosaur popups were impressive but once a consumer grade webcam was pointed at the paper cutouts they came to [...]
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Levels of participation / community
April 19th, 2007 3 Comments
I’m still waiting for the actual Hitwise figures to be released but Red Herring reports on Bill Tancer’s presentation at the Web2.0 conference/expo.
A tiny 0.16 percent of visits to Google’s top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch, according to a study of online surfing data by Bill [...]
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M&W07 – Day four: Cell phones and bookmarking
April 15th, 2007 Comments Off
Again the Walker Art have delivered some great notes to three excellent final day presentations evaluating the use of cell phone tours in galleries, and the actual use of bookmarking technologies.
Read the papers from Kate Haley Goldman or understanding the inhibitors to cell phone tour use in galleries, and Nancy Proctor on the differences between [...]
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M&W07 – Day four: Peter Samis on cross media evaluation of Matthew Barney
April 15th, 2007 Comments Off
Peter Samis from SFMOMA is one of the long time innovators in the web and interactive space. His presentation today was fantastic and an essential examination of the different impact of interpretative media types on the visit experience across those with prior knowledge/experience and those without. It was a great way to end the formal [...]
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“We just don’t have time” – the culture of busy-ness
April 15th, 2007 Comments Off
One of the re-occuring themes in questions I’ve been fielding throughout M&W2007 is that of problems of the organisational culture of ‘busy-ness’.
This came up both in our workshop on Planning for social media as well as in other sessions on museum blogging and discussions of moving web projects out of just the web team. The [...]
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M&W07 – Day three: Usability lab
April 14th, 2007 Comments Off
The Usability Lab sessions are fascinating dissections of museum websites. A potential user is taken out of the room whilst the website owner explains their site and suggests two popular tasks to be performed by the tester when they return to the room. Marty and Twiddle explain their rapid testing methodology behind these sessions over [...]
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M&W07 – Day three: Radical Trust – State of the Museum Blogosphere
April 14th, 2007 5 Comments
Jim Spadaccini and I have just finished presenting our mini-workshop surveying the museum blogosphere.
The detailed results are online at Archimuse, and the slides including updated data are available here.
(update – Nate at Walker Art has posted some discussion of the q&a at the end of the presentation)
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M&W07 – Day two:Peacock & Brownbill on audiences, visitors, and users
April 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Because of timetable clashes I missed Darren Peacock and Johnny Brownbill’s presentation on the evaluation work that has gone into the forthcoming redevelopment of the Museum Victoria website.
Their hybrid model of ‘integrated analysis’ of a museum website is a solid approach that addresses many of the holes in other more traditional models. Of course it [...]
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M&W07 – Day two: Tagging & Tracking / OPAC2.2
April 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to all who came to my paper presentation.
The paper is online over at Archimuse or if you are attending it is also in the printed proceedings (which is a little easier to read on public transport). You can also download my slides but bear in mind they need to be viewed in [...]
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M&W07 – Day two: SecondLife
April 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Richard Urban delivered an entertaining but technology-bug plagued presentation on museums in SecondLife. Richard’s paper was full of good examples of real and user-created museums that have sprung up in SL and again asked the question of whether museums should be dipping their toes in the SL waters. If you are curious then Richard’s presentation [...]
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