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I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in SanJose). interactive discussions. Participatory and interactive. Tags: events event london m4change mobile. hands-on-demos.
Photo from SanJose Library. One recent project asked people to tag photos from Haiti in an effort to identify missing people. Chris is the President of Causemedia Group ( [link] ) , a for-profit social enterprise that creates interactions between brands, celebrities and nonprofits. Tags: volunteering.
eBay's Green Team began with a group of SanJose employees. The multiplicity of interactions. The social web has provided a plethora of ways for people to interact and share information. The interaction options are wider than ever. Tags: Influence Events Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media.
If you want to find out more about the conference, read the tagged blog posts from the conference here and the nonprofit technology spin here. (Be " When you just tag something for yourself to find. ( Technorati Tags: blogher Probably not quite as good as being there. Here's a live blog of what he said and here.
Flying into SanJose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). If a giant blow-up thingy is good, how about a giant blow-up thingy you can interact with?
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This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in SanJose, CA. I've spent the last month building some sample exhibits, as well as a tutorial on interactive exhibit design. A contractor, Involve Inc.,
I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the SanJose Museum of Art (SJMA). Chris and Lucy Larson, the SJMA manager of interpretation, wanted to create something that would be both a marketing tool for the Road Trip exhibition and add an interactive element to the physical exhibition.
This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. Then, he moved to museums as a "thing to do"--to touch things, play with interactives. Tags: professional development. You can view and download all the slides here.
This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in SanJose, have been offering them for almost a decade.
The SanJose Museum of Art has drastically changed its approach to security, replacing guards with visitor services staff who provide interpretation and monitor visitor actions in a less threatening manner. Tags: design Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum. Some are simple design choices—like at the MFA. How do we get there?
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