Starting Small

From Digital-JumpStart

Notes on Starting Small (taken by Holly Witchey):

Chris – IT Manager, Canadian Museum of Human Rights—big project in small steps—build a museum from scratch – infrastructure for the entire museum

Harvey - 6000 turtles in search of museum, is it possible to start putting turtles online and create interest in the collection, before the physical structure, thematic issues for educational curriculum

Jessica – Pomona College—lots of hats, an initiative a new website, have an interactive content—vehicle for museum and user-content

Mongolia– small private museum--how to display standard level Ulan Bator

Sara – Belmont House, in D.C. women’s history and the national rights amendment none of the staff members could be here, completely redo the website, lots of ideas and no ideas where to begin, where they could start with their wealth of ideas

Jonn Hankins, Executive Director, New Orleans African American Museum, city block in Tremaine neighborhood, oldest neighborhood in the U.S. –historic community circa 1840, and –like Jessica, interested in making our website interactive, historic of people---capture histories –bicentennial of that neighborhood,

Kaia Landon, jumped out of the museum field, but I still maintain all the technical experience for the Mesa museum. Our technology—we’ve had a board and directory

Open source tools and other sources for display:

Display and collections management

www.omeka.org plug-in my omeka, collect and take notes, and build a little poster that you can email to other people --social bookmarking, send to Facebook, twitter www.pachyderm.org

For collections management:

Collective Access: Www.collectiveaccess.org Adlib Free Downtown: www.adlib.org www.collectionspace.org www.pastperfect.org http://www.minisisinc.com/ http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/map_gallery/index.php

Social Media and Audience Engagement

Word Press http://wordpress.org/ Flikr http://www.flickr.com/

Discussion of cloud-computing and the benefits

Fundraising and membership offers:

http://civicrm.org/

Resources

http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/comm/spcs.cfm

Microparticipation

http://www.causecastmobilefundraising.org/

How to make oral histories into great web presentations: