tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post490983411433746773..comments2024-03-27T05:04:39.476-07:00Comments on Museum 2.0: Case Study: A Participatory Road Trip takes the SJMA on a Wild RideNina Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-81717240426100476422008-12-08T07:42:00.000-08:002008-12-08T07:42:00.000-08:00i get rediciously excited about community curated ...i get rediciously excited about community curated content. as someone who dose not stand by the stigma of museum driven cultural curation i'm stoaked to hear about such successes.<BR/><BR/>its also an exciting venture due to its promotional potential for other museums and small businesses. perhaps postcard partnering and network support could help this work for other museums.<BR/><BR/>as someone who grew up in california, driving everywhere as a kid, i have noticed a significant decrease in the number of bizarre roadside attractions. perhaps less folks are road tripping these days or maybe these places have just fallen from my mind.<BR/><BR/>either way, i think people have gotten too busy and self involved to notice the quirky cultural geography of their auto adventures.<BR/>i would love to see how it turned out, but going to SJMA would be quite the road trip itself, from seattle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-40677356928050211292008-12-05T14:44:00.000-08:002008-12-05T14:44:00.000-08:00Hey Nina,Thanks for the posting about our Road Tri...Hey Nina,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the posting about our Road Trip Video. We are flattered to be on your blog. <BR/><BR/>Just wanted to elaborate on a few things that I didn't mention during my talk due to time constraints. <BR/><BR/>We did initially consider posting the cards somehow on the internet. Obviously this is a laborious task and we are already stretched pretty thin. We also looked at possible digital solutions where people could send us a digital postcard, but the services we found were fairly labor intensive and not very easy to implement. Additionally you do not have those great quirky postcards from locations around the world to hold in your hands. We also threw around the idea of posting a featured postcard every week. We unfortunately do not have a good web platform with our current site to handle this in an elegant way. <BR/><BR/>Also to clarify, the postcards sent in are not going to be accessioned into the collection. They will be held in the institutional interpretive archive, however.<BR/><BR/>To address the numbers game. You asked me at the presentation if we would now be happy with numbers in the low thousands. I mentioned that we still are excited to see when a video reaches a milestone like a 1000. If you think that maybe 10% of those are people that have never heard of our museum, 100 new people hearing about our institution is pretty good! Also we tend to put out videos in groups. Our recent Robots show had 13 videos with an overall view count of over 35,000. That's still a pretty good reach. Not everyone goes through and watches every video so we are under the assumption that a lot of those views are unique hits.<BR/><BR/>I think if you leverage other areas of the internet to help boost your views, i.e. blogs especially, you stand to gain a lot of value for your efforts. One video that we created for artist Il Lee was featured on a blog called kottke.org and shot the view count up by 15,000.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for your write up!<BR/><BR/>Chris AlexanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com