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Museum's Devices vs Visitors' Devices. Where your Strategy stands today?

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By Christos Giordamlis - Posted on 04 April 2011

In a rapid changing enviornment, where technology (that splited on manconsists) is hustling to catch potential customers needs, museums are adopting handheld devices as a tool to share experience and knowledge with their visitors.

How can a Museum to overpass many technology challenges and stay closer to visitors' needs.

For anyone who would like to discus or share their opinions with us, we would like to set few questions and chat further

a. Do you prefer 1. museum's devices or 2. visitors'?

b. Which is the reason for that? 1. cost of devices, 2. cost of infrastructrue 3.the chosen provider, 4 recommendations by others  5.other.

c. Which is your favorite platform today?

1. Android,  2. Apple, 3. Blackberry, 4. Microsoft,

d. Do you prefer  1. offline app or 2. an online app, or 3. a web mobile portal, or

4.an embedded app. or a combination of them?

e. Do you believe that worth having content adapted to visitors' profile 

For those interested more info on the way...

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Statistics from visitors
Submitted by Christos Giordamlis on April 6, 2011 - 5:50pm.

I share also with you some March Statistics from few XENAGOS projects that accessed through open wifi infrastructure.

March Total unique visitors    5073

Microsoft    1709     33,7%

Apple           1737   34,2%

Nokia            623      12,3%

Android         853      16,8%

Number of total      4922     97,02%

Apple seems to stabilized, while android is growing fast. Nokia soon will be part of Microsoft statistics and XBOX users that have a remarkable percentage. Kinect is coming.

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statistics from those contributed
Submitted by Christos Giordamlis on April 6, 2011 - 12:17am.

 

Thanks to many contribution in personal, i listed results from the first 20 that they have respond

1
65%
35%
 
 
 

2
45%
25%
10%
20%
 

3
35%
40%
5%
20%
 

4
20%
25%
15%
5%
35%

5
90%
10%
 
 
 

More statistics and comments soon

See you at MW

For those willing to rsspond in personal mail me at christos@prisma.gr or use christosgi on linkedin