Emma, For something simple, what about "curated voicemail?" Give out a number (you could even promote it at the event, and people could call from their mobile) and people could call with their story. If the voice mail is digital, you have instant audio files.
Since you have (I believe) free in-bound calling in Australia, how about letting people register their (mobile) number and a curator will call them (recording the call). People could send a text message from a mobile, asking for a "call back." Obviously you could put up a web site, have skype voice mail, and many other techniques. Once you have the recordings, you can edit them down, place them in context, do all the good things that curators do. And, the "prompt" on the voice mail can have guidelines, can request a number to call so you can verify that they are who they say they are and give consent, etc, and the format of the voicemail system will automatically limit them to 1 minute (or whatever). ...r On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Emma Jones <Emma.Jones at awm.gov.au> wrote: > At the Australian War Memorial, we have been dabbling in blogs, facebook, > Flickr etc but we have an exhibition coming up where we would like to engage > the community beyond the historians, experts on 16 pound shells and military > history enthusiasts. As the working title is "Love and War", this exhibition > will be moving beyond some of our more traditional themes and we are looking > for ways to allow people to tell us their stories, related to war or > overseas service. Has anyone else done this and if so, what did you find > worked well (or not). Let me know. > Emma Jones > > > ********************************************************************************************* > > AWM DISCLAIMER: > > This message may contain confidential information and is intended only for > its recipient(s). If you have received this email by error, please delete > this e-mail from your system and notify the sender immediately. E-mail > transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure. E-mail information could be > intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, be incomplete, or > contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any > errors or omissions in the contents of this message. > > > ********************************************************************************************* > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > -- Richard Smith, Professor, School of Communication Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CANADA V6B 5K3 Phone: 778 782 5116 Web: http://www.sfu.ca/~smith
