[MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

[Hanan Cohen]

Use http://bit.ly to shorten the URLs in your tweets and get click statistics 
for each URL.
 
If you post links to your site, add a meaningless parameter to the URL in order 
to track incoming click from Twitter.
 
Somthing like http://example.com/page.html?source=twitter
 
And while we are at it - I highly recommend http://cotweet.com .
 
Hanan Cohen
Webmaster
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem
http://mada.org.il/en/



???: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu ??? John Bedard
: ? 07/08/2009 16:21
??: mcn LISTSERV
: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics



We are looking for a way to get Twitter analytics like we can get for Flicker. 
It tells us which specific posts are the most successful and what time of day 
people pay the most attention to us etc.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks

John

John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org ( 
http://www.artsmia.org/ )
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[MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

[Ottevanger, Jeremy]

You can of course get some reasonably useful, if crude, info just by asking the 
obvious questions of the Twitter search page or API. As Heather says, Twitter 
being a rolling stream of stuff that floats across your UI it doesn't really 
make sense to ask "how many people read each tweet"; all the same, the original 
question included the aim of knowing "what time of day people pay the most 
attention to us" and I'm guessing that there might at least be services out 
there that can tell you what time of day your followers have their various 
twitter clients on (or are visiting twitter on the web). No guarantee that 
they'll read your tweet, of course, but if it's sent when they have their 
client open they're more likely to attend to it. And of course the other thing 
you could do is put a call to action into each tweet and track that - perhaps a 
short URL. bit.ly has great stats, for example, and if you only seed twitter 
with a particular short URL and use another one elsewhere you could track the 
impact of that original tweet. Perhaps.
 
Keep us posted if you come across anything useful, John!
 
Cheers, Jeremy



From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Sterbenk, Yvette M.
Sent: Fri 07/08/2009 16:50
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics



We have recently seen some demonstrations by traditional media monitoring 
groups that now have tools that will help you track tweets, identify your 
influencers, and track who's talking back to your constituents. It's pretty 
costly but very interesting and useful. Look at Cision or Vocus.


Yvette Sterbenk
Communications Manager
Corning Museum of Glass
Phone: 607.974.8124
Cell: 607.368.1026
www.cmog.org



-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
Heather Marie Wells
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:42 AM
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics


I don't think there's a way to track views of specific tweets.  I don't
think it would even make sense anyway, since tweets are basically only
seen by your followers, who will generally see all your tweets.

The only possibly meaningful metrics would be rewets, replies, and
click-thru from links you post to your site.  Again I don't think there's
a way to measures this yet as people just don't consider Twitter metrics
as that important.

We have an account with Tweetbeep.com to send us email alerts for certain
actions.  For instance, we have it set up to email us whenever our name or
the names of staff members are used in a post.  Although we did this more
to track what was being said about us instead of trying to get actual
stats.

HM


Heather Marie Wells
Collections Assistant/Podcast Producer
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale, AR 72764
Phone: (479) 750-8165

Website: http://www.springdalear.gov/shiloh/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShilohMuseum
Podcast blog: http://www.shilohcast.blogspot.com/
iTunes U: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/shiloh.org

-Original Message-
From: John Bedard [mailto:jbed...@artsmia.org]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:21 AM
To: mcn LISTSERV
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

We are looking for a way to get Twitter analytics like we can get for
Flicker. It tells us which specific posts are the most successful and what
time of day people pay the most attention to us etc.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks

John

John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org (
http://www.artsmia.org/ )
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[MCN-L] MCN Conference Scholarship Announcement

[MCN Announcements]

Announcing scholarships to attend the 37th annual Museum Computer 
Network conference in Portland, Oregon!

The Museum Computer Network is delighted to offer museum professionals 
the opportunity to apply for scholarships that will enable them to 
attend the MCN annual conference in November.

The annual meeting provides an occasion where you can meet and learn 
from experts on the technology topics challenging today?s museums. It?s 
also a great time for networking and establishing new relationships to 
strengthen your resources for the coming year.

SCHOLARSHIP BASICS

What? Eight scholarships are available to attend MCN?s 2009 annual 
conference. Each stipend includes the full conference registration fee, 
free hotel stay, and a US $50.00 stipend to cover additional expenses.

Who? This scholarship is available to museum professionals who meet one 
of the following criteria:
? Employed at an institution with no more than 20 permanent staff
? First-time MCN conference attendee.
? New to the profession with less than 2 years experience in the field.

Where?
Museum Information, Museum Efficiency: Doing More with Less
37th Annual MCN Conference
November 11-14, 2009
Portland, Oregon

Why? The annual MCN conference offers tremendous personal and 
professional benefits and rewards. Not only do attendees gain 
professional knowledge from sessions, they also have the opportunity to 
network with professionals from around the world.

How? Complete the MCN 2009 Scholarship Application and Acceptance 
Agreement and submit according to instructions available online at 
http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2454.

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2009

Questions? Please contact Jana Hill, 2009 Scholarship Committee chair, 
jana [dot] hill [at] cartermuseum [dot] org.

[MCN-L] The Reel Thing Technical Symposium XXII, Los Angeles, CA (August 21-22, 2009)

[Janice L. Simpson]

Please excuse cross-postings, but this is an event you do not want to
miss!

THE REEL THING TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM

A special 22nd edition of The Reel Thing Technical Symposium will be
held in Los Angeles on August 21-22, 2009 at the Linwood Dunn Theater at
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in Hollywood,
California

Hosted by the Association of Moving Images (AMIA) and dedicated to
presenting the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and
preservation, The Reel Thing brings together a unique line up of
laboratory technicians, format experts, and preservationists. 

The program includes two days of sessions and screenings including the
premiere screening of Walt Disney's digital restoration of "Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs", the premiere of the digital restoration of
Marilyn Monroe's "How to Marry a Millionaire," presented in CinemaScope,
and a surprise sneak preview of a restored classic.

Registration details and more information on the program are at:
www.the-reel-thing.org  

REGISTER NOW!

Highlights include: 

Restoration of the Apollo 11 EVA Footage
During this presentation, the system used to capture the extravehicular
activity on video during Apollo 11 will be reviewed as well as the
process for broadcasting those first live pictures from the moon. NASA's
search for the original telemetry tapes which recorded the feed from the
moon, and the best surviving elements will also be profiled. A
discussion will ensue about the technical and philosophical factors that
are guiding the restoration project itself, and how these new
restoration capabilities may apply to other genres of moving images. 

Finally, before and after sequences of images from the ongoing
restoration project will be screened in HD resolution.

Reclaiming the 'Lost' Lunar Orbiter Survey Photos 
Early this year, headlines blared the news that backup tapes of the
first satellite optical surveys of the moon - long thought to have been
lost - had been found and decoded to gorgeous new prints which contained
more than twice the resolution of the "official" versions done long ago.
This presentation will concentrate on the photographic mission to the
moon, how it was conceived and executed, how the 2" instrumentation
tapes, which only vaguely resemble quad videotape recordings, came to be
made (but until now never used) and what was required to bring success
to a project which many thought would be impossible or too expensive to
pull off.

Resolution Limitations of Film Scanners: More Pixels Do Not Mean More
Resolution 
Includes a discussion of the "4K" versus "2K" debate and future "8K"
systems currently under development.

Adieu, Sweet Apparition. Hello Sweetheart - Get Me Rewrite! 
David Giovannoni will discuss recent discoveries and introduce new old
sounds. He'll describe the technical challenges of evoking sound from
primitive recordings made to be seen, not heard. And he'll recount how
the inventor's own voice was revealed after posing for a year as the
phantasm of a young woman. 

After the DI - How to Organize, Catalogue and Protect the Original
Negative. 
About 80% of studio films are now finished as Digital Intermediates and
many of these films are still shot on film, or a hybrid of film and
digital. For archiving, it makes sense to have a plan to extract,
separate and store the actual shots used in the creation of the DI.
Content owners may wish to go back to the most original elements from
production, for restoration or other reasons. This presentation will
cover an efficient and methodical plan for archiving of the original
camera negative. 

Electronic Archiving: Lessons from 8 years in the "DI Trenches." 
This presentation will focus on the real issues encountered by someone
who has been living Digital Intermediate archiving since the inception
of DI. The presentation focuses on what really happens when facilities
and DI studios try to deal with archiving Petabytes of data. 

TYPE A Videotape and THE EVERLY BROTHERS 
The restoration of "Johnny Cash Presents the Everly Brothers Show"-an
early 70's TV series that exist only on obsolete type A videotape
copies-presented technical challenges far in excess of ordinary video
restoration. 

Archiving, Preserving and Distributing Digital Cinema Collections
After three years of work, the original EDCINE approach - based on open
standards (as MXF, JPEG2000 and OAIS), a flexible and modular structure
and on new standardised profiles for long term preservation - resulted
in a 'proof of concept', a working prototype of the 'EDCINE Digital
Archive System'. 

Challenges of Restoring Classic Films in 4K 
Presentation featuring examples from 4K workflows of restoration
projects at Motion Picture Imaging for such films as The Wizard of Oz,
North by Northwest, A Star is Born and Gone With the Wind. Featured
speakers include Ned Price, Jan Yarbrough, Janet Wilson and Ray
Grabowski. 

REGISTER NOW!

www.the-reel-thing.org 

[MCN-L] Attachments sent in email

[Perian Sully]

We don't have specific rules, but anything larger than 10 Mb we  
suggest Yousendit. Really large stuff I upload to an FTP site on our  
webhost



On Aug 7, 2009, at 1:56 PM, "Sweeting III, Floyd"   
wrote:

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> refused to consider Yousendit,  it really turned out to be  
> complicated.
> Many other businesses do not accept files larger than 10. Any  
> experience
> or policies to share about this issue?
>
> Floyd Sweeting III  Head, Information Technology and New Media
> THE FRICK COLLECTION 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021
> Tel: 212-547-6889  Fax: 212-879-2091 www.frick.org
> 
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[MCN-L] Attachments sent in email

[Sweeting III, Floyd]

I'm curious as to what size limits you have on sending attachments. As a
rule, we use Yousendit to send image files, but recently someone on
staff insisted on sending a 15 MB file as an email attachment and
refused to consider Yousendit,  it really turned out to be complicated.
Many other businesses do not accept files larger than 10. Any experience
or policies to share about this issue?

Floyd Sweeting III  Head, Information Technology and New Media
THE FRICK COLLECTION 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021
Tel: 212-547-6889  Fax: 212-879-2091 www.frick.org
 

 


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The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to
which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged
material.  Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or
taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or
entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited.   If you received
this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any
computer.
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[MCN-L] Attachments sent in email

[Bruce Wyman]

>Many other businesses do not accept files larger than 10. Any experience
>or policies to share about this issue?

We limit email attachments to 10mb. If someone has something larger, 
we'll put it on an ftp site or our website and encourage the end user 
to download from there.

We had the excellent opportunity to transition our users to this 
policy about 4 years ago when an internal user had created a 120mb 
powerpoint of images from a staff party and sent it to all the 
internal staff. The email system in place at that time creating a 
copy for each user, tried to deliver to everyone, and then thoroughly 
hosed the disk space and processor utilization. It took about three 
days to recover from the incident but gave me the cover to upgrade 
the mail system and give our users a direct reason to understand the 
'why' behind the policy.

-bw.
-- 
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology
Denver Art Museum  /  100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204
office: 720.913.0159  /  fax: 720.913.0002

[MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

[Sterbenk, Yvette M.]

We have recently seen some demonstrations by traditional media monitoring 
groups that now have tools that will help you track tweets, identify your 
influencers, and track who's talking back to your constituents. It's pretty 
costly but very interesting and useful. Look at Cision or Vocus.


Yvette Sterbenk
Communications Manager
Corning Museum of Glass
Phone: 607.974.8124
Cell: 607.368.1026
www.cmog.org



-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
Heather Marie Wells
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:42 AM
To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv'
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics


I don't think there's a way to track views of specific tweets.  I don't
think it would even make sense anyway, since tweets are basically only
seen by your followers, who will generally see all your tweets.

The only possibly meaningful metrics would be rewets, replies, and
click-thru from links you post to your site.  Again I don't think there's
a way to measures this yet as people just don't consider Twitter metrics
as that important.

We have an account with Tweetbeep.com to send us email alerts for certain
actions.  For instance, we have it set up to email us whenever our name or
the names of staff members are used in a post.  Although we did this more
to track what was being said about us instead of trying to get actual
stats.

HM


Heather Marie Wells
Collections Assistant/Podcast Producer
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale, AR 72764
Phone: (479) 750-8165

Website: http://www.springdalear.gov/shiloh/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShilohMuseum
Podcast blog: http://www.shilohcast.blogspot.com/
iTunes U: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/shiloh.org

-Original Message-
From: John Bedard [mailto:jbed...@artsmia.org]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:21 AM
To: mcn LISTSERV
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

We are looking for a way to get Twitter analytics like we can get for
Flicker. It tells us which specific posts are the most successful and what
time of day people pay the most attention to us etc.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks

John

John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org (
http://www.artsmia.org/ )
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[MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

[Heather Marie Wells]

I don't think there's a way to track views of specific tweets.  I don't
think it would even make sense anyway, since tweets are basically only
seen by your followers, who will generally see all your tweets.

The only possibly meaningful metrics would be rewets, replies, and
click-thru from links you post to your site.  Again I don't think there's
a way to measures this yet as people just don't consider Twitter metrics
as that important.

We have an account with Tweetbeep.com to send us email alerts for certain
actions.  For instance, we have it set up to email us whenever our name or
the names of staff members are used in a post.  Although we did this more
to track what was being said about us instead of trying to get actual
stats.

HM


Heather Marie Wells
Collections Assistant/Podcast Producer
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Springdale, AR 72764
Phone: (479) 750-8165

Website: http://www.springdalear.gov/shiloh/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShilohMuseum
Podcast blog: http://www.shilohcast.blogspot.com/
iTunes U: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/shiloh.org

-Original Message-
From: John Bedard [mailto:jbed...@artsmia.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:21 AM
To: mcn LISTSERV
Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

We are looking for a way to get Twitter analytics like we can get for
Flicker. It tells us which specific posts are the most successful and what
time of day people pay the most attention to us etc.
 
Any Suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
John
 
John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org (
http://www.artsmia.org/ )
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[MCN-L] Big Questions: Increasing Revenue for Your Museum - Can Technology

[TAM Retail]

*Big Questions: Increasing Revenue for Your Museum - Can Technology Help?*

Thinking about how museums can leverage the Internet and software
systems to create new effective strategies and techniques for generating
income with their constituents

Please visit our discussion board at Google Groups "Museum NFP Business
Strategy Group"

Click on
http://groups.google.com/group/museumstrategy/web/big-questions-increasing-revenue-for-your-museum-how-can-technology-help?hl=enor
copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

[MCN-L] Seminar: How To Tell Great Stories and Expand Your Audience

[Graeme Farnell]

Podcasting for Museums and Galleries
How To Tell Great Stories and Expand Your Audience

One Day Seminar | London | Monday 5 October

Podcasting for Museums & Galleries is an intensive, information-packed event
which is limited to just 25 participants to ensure that your particular
institution's needs are fully met.

The lead trainer will be Jude Habib, director of SoundDelivery, one of the
UK's leading podcast producers, whose clients include the British Museum,
Museum of London and the British Library.

The seminar will take participants through the complete audio podcasting
process from start to finish, with both practical demonstrations and
actionable, in-depth information and advice. You'll be able to discuss your
organisation's distinctive requirements, your needs and your approach.

You'll be taught the skills you need to collect stories, case studies and
other relevant audio material that can be used to enhance, communicate and
promote the work of your organisation.

What's covered?

* Telling Stories - a creative session to explore ideas and formats for
audio appropriate for your organisation, including podcasting
* Developing your interviewing skills
* Tooling up: the equipment and software you need to get started
* How to use audio equipment to collect audio content
* How to carry out basic sound editing on a PC
* How to turn material into an mp3 file or podcast and upload it to a
website
* How to market your podcast and expand your audience

Who should attend?
The seminar is suitable for professionals involved in: audience development;
communication, marketing and fundraising; interpretation and presentation;
learning and schools; online and information services; social inclusion and
community outreach.

We are releasing a limited number of places on this seminar at reduced rate,
saving 25% on the full rate.

To take advantage of this saving, please don't delay reserving your
place(s). Seats will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis and can be
booked at: www.museumsetc.com/?p=54

MuseumsEtc
8 Albany Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3QB
UK

E: service at museumsetc.com

[MCN-L] Twitter Analytics

[John Bedard]

We are looking for a way to get Twitter analytics like we can get for Flicker. 
It tells us which specific posts are the most successful and what time of day 
people pay the most attention to us etc.
 
Any Suggestions?
 
Thanks
 
John
 
John R. Bedard  |  Director of Information Systems
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404

612-870-3268  |  JBedard at artsmia.org  |  www.artsmia.org ( 
http://www.artsmia.org/ )

[MCN-L] dictabelts

[Rich Cherry]

Does anyone know a vendor for conversion of Dictabelts?  One of our members has 
400 dictabelts containing local oral histories that we are looking to convert.

Rich Cherry
Director
Balboa Park Online Collaborative
A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation
2131 Pan American Plz
San Diego, CA 92101
B: (619) 819-8331
F: (619) 819-8230
rcherry at balboaparkonline.org