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wikicast of session wrap up notes
(I'm typing as table facilitators talk through what was discussed today and I'll save this page every couple of minutes <signature> 23:51, 23 May 2010 (UTC))
NOTE: I'll be doing formatting and cleanup on this. M.E.
Sharon Leon: asks facilitators to come to the front and talk through what happened at their tables. SB will keep time.
NH: with J. Gordy at collections access table. also at starting small issues. process, advice, barriers issues: managing database upgrade we've got too many standards. need just 1
- digitization BP "uncovering the sins of the past"
- no data at time of scanninbg
process: advice: just jump in. start. big enough to test, small enough to complete. take a discrete set you can finish, or big chunk? FLICKR is a great way to get some stuff out there w minimal investment
Doug H: process and strategy balance change w. inertia tech without strategy is really bad start with the strategy!!! "strategy is a plan for action" via @mpedson what's your reason for doing thiings A: usually your mission statement is a guide for many of us we need to "manage up" ...there are strategies for managing up JL says "articulate it" in an organized way we talked about x-departmental groups. don't be afraid to reach out to each other. invite each other to talk at
G Goodlanderr at gaming table with P Sparrow 4 questions and 1 piece of advice
- what's the starting point? game mechanices, audience?
- engage 100% of visitors with shallow, or go deeper with fewer
- we see alot of online social games that are not good games
but they're viral and sticky. Farmville!
- how convince it's OK to be authority and fictional. boundaries
- advice:yes, you should break rules, but do it strategically!
Lisa & Suzie
exhibitions talbe then molrphed
2 areas: museum in house dev of exhibits, then industry consultants
good back/forth about diff aspects when consider the two combinations...
conversation evolved around needing successful examples
if people know successful user-generated experiences interactive exhi bitions
we need examples of best practices
once we joined strategy group, Q"s about when/what can be answered by strategy
R. Stein social media table 1 definition 3 hallmarks 2 questions needed to define what social media was content we creat that anticipates a response not tweeting every response hallmarks successful efforts always have a particular staff member responsible for soc media pointed out that soc media supposed to look spontaneous but had strategy actually elements had elements of tracking soc media conversations q: are social media policies needed/important q: what are qualitiative aspects
VP collaboration and sharing table was a broad category surprised to see uniform interest 1 topic getting the public to share people had good projects to discuss dissapointed not more sharing among people they want to reach. discussion around tools, promotion NEED to lower barrier to participation. need simple tools for participation also, go where the public are, provide motivation for pub to participate suggestion that the user has to see themselves STAFF SKILLS topic how to get staff helping w. social media. Training or JUST do it. it's a core value: collab + sharing
MM Immersive media table lots of pasion Q how to take built environments and take them on the road? thouhts about storytelling w. theatrical terminology ideas from U of L: is it real or fake? confusing visitors? Lots of memories of things they saw in childhood. POWERFUL stuff does anybody ever blend live theater and object theater? also serious applications: inst of creative technologies at USC does training for the military. This is stuff that's being usef for life/death training
DM table went all over the place bruce helped w. job leads different types of institutions, children's museum, an association, mfa boston, diverse crowd themes: everyone had q's about getting projects stareted. BIG VAGUE PROJECTS how ge tmobile in galleries, we need an interactive so how to break down goals, user needs, how you might prioritize, write it all down. use outside facilitator maybe Focus on the goals, not the technology. not "it has to be a blog" Starting out in careers. msg to early career. just.
(who?) starting small we talked about everything! starting gettring collections online, social media, tagging, using Flickr, talked about fundraising and membership general solutions for fundraising and memberships (one member has big name musicians coming through. how approach them? _ "micro participation" txt msg donations several new museums AAM has resources like registrar's committee to help museums that
TS we talked 1/2 time about open source helping ME with SI Commons project!!! hidden costs, open vs/ proprietary, INNOVATION COST that you're tied to commercial sw prividers release schedules. Differences in finding staff for OS vs proprietary one thing about open source is that the kinds of peorple to staff OS will be more in tuned with humanities/museum m ission opportunity there Obligations of open source: you're obligated to rerelease any code you modify. Cost of supporting outside developer community.
NP Mobile (with some open source) 2013 more of visitors will be coming to our sites via mobile than desktop internet. GMU, US Cap visitor center, SI. WE ALL need to build services for visitors on the mall - - we're going to collaborate!!!! Q: via OS team, are we going down "the cassette (based audio tour" route? Tablets may be game changers for experience in museum. Groups of visitors, social experience. larger screens may help group/social in museum what will oru visitors put up with. insure against tech change. Invitation to mobile content session tomorrow.
What do in next year?
NP: (mike fillin from NP) put users first... MM - I hope we have a media and technology plan for my museum
ME - get leaders to commit
SL - get our orgs to work together around content
TS - another meeting like this one that doesn't require AAM and lots of expense. Can we do this. WE CAN DO THIS FREE AND WE SHOULD DO IT MORE OFTEN.
TB - "it's not about the tech" You shouldn't have to justify tech to your directors and donors. It's part of everything we do. sad that we jhave to spend so muchy time justifying
- we sholdn't have to guess what the metrics are.
VP - want more curators in this conversation more museums believe in putting it out there for free
SS - more people go to more conferences than MW and AAM. went to SXSW this yearand it was llife changing.
