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Going Mobile at Balboa Park Feb 16-17, 2010

Posted by Nancy Proctor on | February 7, 2010 | No Comments

Titus Bicknell & I are looking forward to visiting San Diego and Balboa Park for the first time Feb 16-17, when we’ll be leading a seminar on planning for mobile audiences, content and technology in the museum.

Here are a few reminders, and resources for those who’d like to get a head start or who aren’t able to join us (all are free unless otherwise noted):

  1. First, check out the seminar outline.
  2. Please bring paper, pencil/pen, and a map of your museum or site (maps given to visitors are ideal).
  3. If you think you might be late on Feb 16, you can listen to my podcast about Evaluation-led mobile content and experience design which covers many of the ideas I’ll discuss early on the first day. This material was presented at MCN 2009 in Portland, Oregon, and is a development from my June 2009 presentation during the Handheld Online Conference.
  4. You can also read an outline and more about some of these concepts on the Museum Mobile wiki.
  5. We’ll use a variation on SFMOMA’s “Interpretive Goals Questionnaire” in Samis, P. and S. Pau, After the Heroism, Collaboration: Organizational Learning and the Mobile Space. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2009: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. Published March 31, 2009. Consulted February 7, 2010.
  6. And we’ll be inspired by SmartHistory.org‘s conversational approach to creating mobile content. Bring a “meaningful object” – something that inspires, delights or moves you to our seminar to try out this way of engaging visitors in a dialogue. It does not have to be from the collection of a museum; it can be an entirely personal object, but should be something that you know very well. Please bring it or a photo of it to the seminar.
  7. I’ll be riffing off of John Falk’s great work on museum visitor identity and his 5 categories of visitors by motivation. Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology has several resources in addition to Falk’s publications:
  8. For those who’ll stay for our experiments with recording mobile content at the end of day 1, you might want to download the woices app, an easy way to record audio and publish it with an image and GPS location information from an iPhone. Alternatively, feel free to bring any handheld audio recorder you are comfortable with. We’ll experiment with a little recording on-site.
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