Vine on Your Own
In museums interpretation could be classified: being enacted by a staff intercessor, say in a program, or placed for audience consumption without a staff-member present, like a label. In both instances, great care is given to have the audience reacts. But, it in former, the staff member has the luxury of being able to tack, …
Vine to Share the Museum Experience
Vine can be used as a way to get your audience to share or a way to share what your audience is doing. My previous post sets the foundation for my ideas about getting your audience to share. I would only punctuate those ideas with some notes about content. First, let’s meditate on the word …
The Right Audience for Vine
The interface of vine is strangely equalizing in its startling simplicity. You just touch the screen—there isn’t even a button. Anyone who has accessed the app can touch the screen. After all, that is how they got into the app. This simplicity has its problems. You look at the screen and wonder—what do I do? …
Vine Video for Museums: Post 1
Have you ever lost track of time watching a Vine video? What makes a Vine so engaging that you end up watching them over and over? They are only 6 seconds, after all. The brevity of the medium is at the core of its power. Spurred by the challenge of fitting an idea into such …
When museums are run like Downtown Abbey…
After spending hours of research watching and rewatching Downton Abbey (and over a decade of research working in museum), I can’t help but see uncanny similarities between museum organization structures and the hit PBS show. The Abbey The museum, like the manor, is more than a structure, and frankly is more than the collections it …
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Meeting Needs…
A thoughtful person asked me today if all museums worked this way. By this way, she meant with long stretches of meetings marked by legislative decision-making, interspersed with back-door conversations, and then short forays into actual work. Museums are a bit like universities in that they are presided over and populated by academics, often people …