[MCN-L] Research Forum at SAA2008 - Abstracts due May 15th

2008-04-28 Thread Helen Tibbo
Society of American Archivists 2008 Research Forum "Foundations and Innovations" Tuesday, August 26, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm Hilton San Francisco Participants' response to the 1st Annual SAA Research Forum in August 2007 confirmed that the full spectrum of research activities - from "pure" rese

[MCN-L] What's a Museum without YouTube?

2008-04-28 Thread j trant
Beth -- check out the following Museums and the Web 2008 paper: Beyond launch: Museum videos on YouTube http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/hart/hart.html David Hart, The Museum of Modern Art, USA Allegra Burnette, The Museum of Modern Art, USA Chris Alexander, San Jose Museum of Art, USA Dan

[MCN-L] What's a Museum without YouTube?

2008-04-28 Thread Beth Kanter
Hi folk, I am doing some research for a workshop and was rounding up arts examples. I did come across some examples of Museum YouTube Channels - wrote about them here: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/04/what-is-a-museu.html What are the best practices for museums on YouTube? What metric

[MCN-L] MCN Board of Trustees: Nomination Ideas

2008-04-28 Thread Christina DePaolo
Dear MCN members: We'll have two open positions on the MCN Board of Trustees this year, and we'd like your input on how to fill them! Please let us know if there is someone who you think would make an excellent MCN board member - and that someone could even be yourself. :-) Recommendations tha

[MCN-L] Interpretive Video Kiosk Software

2008-04-28 Thread doug melven
Hi Leah, Regarding your search for kiosk software - we've had pretty good luck with some custom software I wrote using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. We just closed an exhibit that featured a looping introduction video & selections of 6 or 7 videos that the user could select from. Currently I'm work