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Potential museum visitors access information about the organization and decide if they want to visit by using web-based sites such as a museum's website, social media platforms, and peer-review sites over more "traditional" forms of advertising. In fact, when comparing how folks get their information about leisure activities, it's not even close: web and mobile platforms (including social media) are disproportionately influencing your museum's visitation and attendance.

Our exciting plan is to transform the Ask a Curator website into a platform where engagement between curators and members of the public can expand and continue.The Ask a Curator website will be a platform for conversation between museums and the public. Anyone can log into Ask a Curator and ask participating museums a question.

This article provides an overview for anyone producing content about these two options. We argue that most content producers should focus on the mobile web, especially if they want to make their content more widely accessible. Mobile apps may be appropriate if looking for new sources of revenue, or deep user engagement, but many other factors make the mobile web the more sensible platform for most content producers.

"This article provides an overview for anyone producing content about thesetwo options. We argue that most content producers should focus on the mobileweb, especially if they want to make their content more widely accessible.Mobile apps may be appropriate if looking for new sources of revenue, ordeep user engagement, but many other factors make the mobile web the moresensible platform for most content producers. I'll provide a detailed comparison of both mobile web and apps for thedissemination of content focusing on the following: making contentaccessible, dealing with a multitude of devices and platforms, cost ofproduction, control over what content can be published, leveraging socialnetworks and search engines, features (such as ability to access users'location), user engagement, and monetization." (Author)

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"6 reasons to encourage enterprise conversations with collaborative platforms": Try to tell a manager, who's been fighting againtst chattings that are synonymous with wasted time and bad productivity for years, that his staff now need to have conversations, and, even worse, that his role is to stimulate these conversations….and look at the manager's face

We provide tools for companies, agencies, shops and business people to reach their clients on the different platforms of the upcoming internet

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Success with digital media for museums, education and cultural organisations isn't about scrambling to sign up to the latest fads, those teasmades of technology, and more about attitudes of organisations and the individuals within them. What are the handles we can grab hold of to begin or better develop our journeys into digital media use in the world of exhibition, performances or engagement of new audiences? It tries to make a few points, some more successfully than others, no doubt. Key amongst them:- how to institutions do better what is now so easy for everyman to do?- is there anything to be learned from the world of startups where coming up with a compelling problem that needs solved? What are the problems museums manage to solve? Do they need to think in that way at all?- what potential is there for cultural organisations to open themselves up to new audiences by tackling the same content and ideas in alternative ways and on different platforms?

The first few years of social media brought new approaches to audience engagement, emphasising knowledge sharing through open platforms. As organisations explored the potential of social media, they focused on the impact this would have on their internal practices. Today there is growing emphasis on how these seemingly democratic forms of communication can support and develop culturally diverse audiences.

It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding. The microblogging platform has grown by over 100 million users this year and expanded its staff from 130 to 350 people. And it's rolled out major redesigns and improvements to its site, mobile apps and APIs.

a social support platform called Temptd. With Temptd, users can get immediate feedback and support through a Facebook app (and soon to be-launched iPhone app).

Nielsen/McKinsey Unternehmen, zu Entwicklung & Möglichkeiten von transmedia: "A new sector in entertainment has been developing over time, capitalizing on the abundance of platforms from which consumers can be reached.  "Transmedia storytelling" engages consumers through different means, shifting from the traditional linear story, to a more complex, multi-dimensional "story world."  

Socialtext's flagship product, Socialtext Workspace, is the first enterprise wiki and the foundation of the connected collaboration platform. Socialtext People enables enterprise social networking. Socialtext Dashboard provides personalized and customizable widget-based interface for people and teams to manage attention. SocialCalc is the social spreadsheet for distributed teams. These products deliver connected collaboration as a service. Adoption and achievement services leverage this platform to deliver rapid implementation of market leading solutions.

"MuseumNext looks at how museums and galleries can benefit from new technology and the latest web trends. This two day conference will highlight best practice and act as a platform to ask 'what next?"

The ubiquity of mobile devices and the advent of augmented reality provide an opportunity to explore the use of interactive design in what is traditionally a difficult educational space: the art museum. The NGA Experience app (shown here on an iPhone but theoretically platform-agnostic) uses augmented reality to populate the art museum with a digital layer of content that is virtually infinite, yet completely optional for visitors. Such an application of AR in the museum ultimately provides a greater level of control and engagement to the museum visitor and enhances his or her opportunity for a meaningful experience without altering the physical space of the gallery.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.

Das ist spannend, weil die Initiative des Instituts of Museum and Liebrary Services, US) sowohl Fallbeispiele integriert als auch ein Dokument publiziert hat zum Thema "21st century skills". Ausserdem wurde ein "self assesment-tool" entworfen. "The tool allows museums and libraries to determine where they fit on the continuum of 21st century skills operations and programming." Und die Seite des Instituts sammelt News und Veranstaltungen zum Thema.

Gut gefällt mir daran, dass hier eben nicht Web2.0-Ziele im Vordergrund stehen, sondern übergeordnete Ziele mit Hilfe dieser Tools erreicht werden können. Vom Ansatz und Grundverständnis her sehr hilfreich.

This paper looks at the use of cell phones for tours of cultural sites in Europe. Although several projects have experimented with IVR, SMS and even multimedia tours on standard and next-generation networks, take-up of this platform by museums has remained low in comparison to US activity, despite cell phone usage being more wide-spread and longer-developed than in North America. Through case studies of recent phone tour projects at Tate Modern and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we examine what the key differences and similarities are between phone-based tours on the two continents, and what each can learn from the other.

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Amplified is a not-for-profit organization that uses social media to enable and encourage community participation around events, conferences and public conversations. The Amplified team facilitates and documents the sharing of ideas, opinions and resources, and aggregates this content online to enable the conversations from all parties to continue and spread.