museumsandtheweb.com - user-generated content

Your Photo Here: An Online Contest Solution

MDougherty — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:25:28 +0000

MW2012

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contests

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social media

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user-generated content

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audience participation

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Digital participation

Abstract:

For several years, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) has experimented with using contests to interact with visitors, encourage creativity, and expand awareness about special exhibitions and collections.These contests were typically done with private judging because there were not any easy, inexpensive means of launching online contests with public voting.

Recognizing the potential for reaching even larger audiences through contests with public voting, MOPA joined with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) to develop an open source online contest solution with funding from the IMLS Sparks! competition. Developed as a Drupal module and as a packaged product for non-Drupal sites, the software enables user submission of photos, videos, and/or narratives; procedures for approving and publishing content; and voting restriction tools.

During the demonstration session, BPOC staff will review the technical aspects of setting up and managing an online contest using the new software. MOPA staff will discuss ways the museum has incorporated online contests into broader education and marketing initiatives to increase visitors (both online and at the museum), integrate non-expert viewpoints into exhibitions, and improve its understanding of visitor interests.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

MW2012 Demonstrations III

Site:

http://www.mopa.org

Authors:

Maren Dougherty

Bill Bostick

Vivian Kung Haga

Joaquin Ortiz

More than the sum of its parts: pulling together user involvement in a museum website

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:53 +0000

Durbin, G. (2010). More than the sum of its parts: pulling together user involvement in a museum website. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

For Kids

dina.helal — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:01:39 +0000

MW2011

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kids

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social networking

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user-generated content

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Web 2.0

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art

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artists

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For Kids is a new section of the Whitney's web site (whitney.org) that has features for engaging a young, web-savvy audience—kids ages 8-12—with art and artists. This new section of the site will launch in early 2011. A beta version of the web pages is available for viewing at whitney.org/ForKids.

Centered upon the Museum’s collection and exhibitions, the goals of this project are to offer kids in-depth content about art and artists and build a safe, carefully moderated online community for interaction between peer groups. “For Kids” offers a unique window into Whitney artists’ work and ideas, and draws direct parallels between the artists’ and the kids’ creative processes. It also provides opportunities for tagging, commenting, voting, polling, contributed responses, and user-generated content. Children can tag works of art in the Whitney’s collection, create their own collections, and make a profile page where they can upload and share their own artwork and see the polls and quizzes that they have participated in. On the landing page, works by featured Whitney artists are literally paired with artwork uploaded by Whitney kids and works from the Whitney’s Collection sit side by side with kids’ collections. A special feature is a type of “graffiti wall”—a pattern maker based on a set of algorithms that kids can use to change the page design throughout the “For Kids” area.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations I

Site:

http://whitney.org/ForKids

Authors:

dina helal