Posted: September 6th, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser | Filed under: Inspiration, Technology | Tags: advice, checklist, easy, guidelines, list, new media, quick, social media, tips, twitter, use | View Comments
Last week some of my colleagues and I hosted a new media afternoon with workshops for participants in the Week van de Geschiedenis (“Week of the History”). During this annual event hundreds of cultural institutions in the Netherlands organise activities related to history. Over 250,000 people all over the Netherlands visit debates, tours, lectures, special exhibitions… I believe this week has an enormous new media potential.
Quite some of the participating institutions have zero budgets, work with volunteers and have limited or no experience with new media. Some of the visitors of the new media afternoon asked me what they could do with new media – taking into account their limitations. I composed this list of 28 simple things to do with new media for small cultural institutions to help them.
If you know of other low-budget, easy-to-do new media activities, please add them. It’s highly appreciated by the many small cultural institutions taking their first steps in new media.
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Posted: May 16th, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser | Filed under: Inspiration, Technology | Tags: advice, conversation, do's and don'ts, energy, experience, guidelines, lessons, tips | View Comments
Photo from the Flickr Commons (Field Museum Library)
I’m relatively new to museums. Apart from a short intermezzo in an ecomuseum, the last year has been my only year within the walls of a museum. I do new media and technology. We do a lot of innovation. This is what I learned last year.
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Posted: May 2nd, 2010 | Author: Jasper Visser | Filed under: Technology | Tags: advice, augmented reality, games, guidelines, mobile museum, mw2010, pilots, tips | View Comments
How can we use mobile media to engage people in cultural and historical heritage? Last week I co-hosted a hands-on expert meeting dealing with this subject. Our objective: to find one or two pilot solutions that we can develop already.
The meeting followed on the post-MW2010 unconference about mobile games for museums I wrote about two weeks ago. Experts of DEN (Dutch Digital Heritage), the Dutch museum association (NMV), the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam and Beeld en Geluid together with host the Museum of National History, came up with a set of guidelines for pilot projects. We used user profiling and a tour through The Hague to develop these guidelines and a handful of ideas.
Our findings below represent what we think a mobile platform for cultural and historical heritage should look like, using contemporary technology.
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