museumsandtheweb.com - organizational change

Perils and Opportunity: Going Virtual, Mobile, and Toying with Reality.

hannerl — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:53:11 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

mobile

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technology

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Augmented Reality (AR)

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organizational change

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collaboration

Abstract:

Creating strategies and opportunities for storytelling and sharing in an increasingly networked, mobile, and interactive social and built environment, is a complex challenge facing museums of all sizes. At the same time, finding new tools and collaborative modes of creating and sharing content has become a central challenge for many. In particular, museums face myriad technological, organizational, and collaborative challenges, for adopting and developing the connections, knowledge, and resources to find the best fit and form for their changing needs and audiences. This forum will consider the centrality of both organizational as well as technological practices and strategies for navigating this important shift in an increasingly web-made and mobile world.

Brief case study reflections from the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) and the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) will share insights from mobile-enhanced Virtual Museum of Canada projects, "The Visible City" (MOV), and "Invasive Species" (RBCM). Additional examples from the MOV's Bhangra.me storymap, and RBCM's wayfinding navigational applications, will be provided.

Key areas for discussion will be:
-Common areas of misconception about mobile/web applications/tools, and how do we overcome them?
-is collaborative content development and decision-making a necessary evil, or just another characteristic of the new networked reality of interactive web?
-Is "forgetting" exhibition best practices from the offline realm, when designing for the online/mobile realm, something we should encourage or counteract?
-Are small budgets and big projects like Augmented Reality apps really such strange bedfellows?

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations III

Authors:

Hanna Cho

Eric Espig

Why Reinvent The Wheel Over And Over Again? How an Offline Platform Stimulates Online Innovation

lottebelice — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:59:14 +0000

MW2011

Bart Grob, Museum Boerhaave; Lotte Belice Baltussen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision; Lieke Heijmans, Knowledgeland; Ralph Kits, DEN Foundation; Pepijn Lemmens, Netherlands Architecture Institute; Edith Schreurs, Van Gogh Museum; Nikki Timmermans, Knowledgeland; and Erik van Tuijn, Gemeentemuseum, The Netherlands

http://www.meetup.com/Innovators-Netwerk-Erfgoedsector

Abstract

In this paper, the case of an innovative Dutch think tank for the cultural sector is described. The Heritage Innovators Network (INE in Dutch) is unique in the Netherlands. INE is an offline platform created by and for cultural heritage professionals from institutions like the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Science Museum Boerhaave, Van Gogh Museum, National Archive and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Every month creative thinkers from these cultural heritage institutions come together and discuss current topics on online innovation in their sector, such as crowdsourcing, interaction with the public, rights issues related to providing on-line access to collections and Creative Commons. The discussions and results of these sessions have successfully influenced and spread innovative ideas and solutions for cultural institutions. The INE is an offline platform created for and by cultural heritage professionals. The project network is initiated by Knowledgeland and has been made possible by and has been carried out within the scope of Images for the Future, one of the largest digitization efforts in Europe to date. This paper will focus on how a bottom-up approach leads to a think tank for innovative solutions for cultural heritage institutions.

Keywords: innovation, organizational change, collaboration, multi-institutional, sharing knowledge

Program Item Reference:

Why reinvent the wheel over and over again? How an offline platform stimulates online innovation

Mobile and Geolocation Issues

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:40:50 +0000

Type:

Session

Chair:

Brian Dawson

Programs:

PhilaPlace to AnyPlace: Building a Reusable Community Platform for Mapping and Sharing History

Situating Cultural Technologies Outdoors: Design Methods for Mobile Interpretation of Rock Art in Rural Britain

Getting on (not under) the Mobile 2.0 Bus

Date & Time:

April 7, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Location:

Washington

Location-aware

organizational change

geo-coding

intelligent collections

mobile delivery

mobile infrastructure

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

That users will increasingly access museums from wherever they are has implications for our data, our programming, and our institutional practices. Making our collections geo-aware, delivering them where people are, and maintaining the infrastructure to deliver meaningful content on mobile devices present issues we will be addressesing here, and for years to come.

Organizational Change

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:35:39 +0000

Type:

Session

Chair:

Kevin von Appen

Programs:

Social Media and Organizational Change

Why reinvent the wheel over and over again? How an offline platform stimulates online innovation

Date & Time:

April 7, 2011 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location:

Congress

organizational change

organizational impact

change management

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Managing change is more comfortable, and more likely to have good results, than allowing it to take control. Here we try to study and learn from organizations that think about, and structure, their responses, and create mechanisms for professionals to engage with the very concept of change.

Social Media and Organizational Change

JackLudden — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:35:59 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Social Media and Organizational Change

Keywords:

social media

Keywords:

leadership

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management

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strategy

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audience engagement

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social media policies

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organizational change

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organizational structure

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social media coordination

Keywords:

managing social media

Abstract:

There has been great attention placed on how to work in the social media space. This includes how to work with social media in order to improve brand recognition, build a fan base, engage visitors, and expand programming. But you cannot accomplish any of this without staff members who understand how social media can be useful to their work and their institution.

There are critical questions concerning how to sustain, organize, and implement social media within an institution. How do we manage the "brand" with so many people creating content, while also being flexible and bringing out the many voices in an institution?

How to manage social media is a question asked by museums of all sizes and types. We will identify trends in the field as well as available resources that can help facilitate best practices for using social media. We will compare different approaches at different types of institutions (large vs. small, history vs. art museums, local vs. international)

The authors of this paper are from various parts of the country, from different type of museums and ranging in size. With our multiple perspectives, we will address:

Internal social media policies and guidelines and how best to introduce and maintain them
How social media can be coordinated. Should you distribute management of social media content across an organization, or should there be one point of contact?
Tactics for educating and training staff about what social media is and how it can further the mission
The new expectations for current staffing positions held within the museum

Promoting a cultural shift that embraces collaborative, agile ways of interacting with our peers and our audiences is critical to our success. We know that different museums have very different attitudes and comfort levels with social media. While risk-taking may not be for every institution, all museums must face the ever-changing world of online engagement. Social media is already altering how museums interact with the public and how museum professionals approach their jobs. This change is fast-paced. It is important that we address it and embrace it as a community.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Organizational Change

Authors:

Dana Allen-Greil

Susan Edwards

Jack Ludden

Eric Johnson

How to manage and build a web collections search project in a museum

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:49 +0000

Morgan, R. (2010). How to manage and build a web collections search project in a museum. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.