LaunchMessage
From Digital-JumpStart
Dear Digital-JumpStart Facilitators,
As we approach the beginning of May, we are starting to make our preparations for our AAM double-session: Jump Start Your Digital Project (May 23 at 2:45). We are so excited about our 1:45 of unconference goodness, that we can’t wait until the conference to get started. So, we’re jumping right in now, and we need your help to make the session a success.
Our goal is to bring people with experience working on digital projects together with those who are interested in starting this work but may not really know where to begin. At AAM we’ll have 12 lively tables of topically-based conversation and you have generously agreed to help facilitate those exchanges. This is part of a larger concept for unconference sessions for those new to digital work called Digital-JumpStart.
We’ve set up a wiki <http://digital-jumpstart.org> as our virtual meeting space. The wiki will allow us to get to know each other and the kinds of experiences that we each bring to this session.
- Please visit the wiki, and edit your profile on your userpage – tell us what you do, the kinds of things you have experience with, and maybe some things you might like to learn. (Once you’ve done that you can hook that page up to the list of participants)
- For an introduction to Digital-JumpStart sessions and how they work, you can read the brief FAQ.
- While you’re visiting the wiki, you can also take a look at the discussion topics. This list is just a starting place, so we invite you to add pages and freely edit the ones that are there. Really our options are endless here, and we want the crowd to drive our work.
We really would like this session to as open and successful as possible. That means that we need your help to recruit all the smart people you know to participate—smart people with new media experience and smart people who want to get started. Talk to your friends. Email. Tweet (#djump). Blog. Encouraging people to participate means not only getting them to come to the session, but also to participate virtually through the website and twitter before and during AAM. Point them to the site <http://digital-jumpstart.org>. Ask them to sign-up. Urge them to contribute to and edit the topics for discussion. You all have amazing networks of museum professionals. We’d love to have each and everyone of them engage in this community effort to launch more and better work in museums.
Thank you for your willingness to be a part of this session. We’re going to have a lot of fun and we’re going to learn a lot.
Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions.
Bests,
Michael Edson and Sharon Leon
