tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post8372298573627941459..comments2024-03-27T05:04:39.476-07:00Comments on Museum 2.0: What the Inauguration Taught Me About Live EventsNina Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-9426453226198096302009-02-02T11:11:00.000-08:002009-02-02T11:11:00.000-08:00Your point about viewing at home and avoiding the ...Your point about viewing at home and avoiding the noisy chatter is good. I was actually on the mall so I had a real not virtual community experience and it was great -- wouldn't have traded it for the world. My only complaint was that the people standing behind us watching the jumbotron were, as my grandmother would have said, potty mouths. They weren't rude or nasty, they just swore a lot, like every other word. And there I was with my 9 year old standing in front of me just feeling uncomfortable about barrage of bad language. I don't mean to imply that my child should be sheltered from four-letter words, I'm a firm believer in exposing her to everything so she can learn how to react, but it just sadly distracted me from the moment. The beauty of your experience was that you could pick and chose whose conversation you overheard, we couldn't easily move away.MASS MoCAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762953932782940217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-84865374774561982642009-01-28T13:41:00.000-08:002009-01-28T13:41:00.000-08:00Thank you for sharing your inauguration experience...Thank you for sharing your inauguration experience!<BR/><BR/>My colleagues and I also watched the inauguration via CNN.com but was too enthralled with the actual ceremony to comment about other Facebook users' status updates. However, it is interesting to see how social networking tools are actually bringing people closer together as opposed to the popular belief that online interaction hinder our socializing skills in the real world. <BR/><BR/>I think your strategies for cultural institutions to create rich experiences such as that created by the inauguration are really good. It is challenging to compete with the experience of a "live" event online. However, I think at the end of the day, it all comes down to content and convenience. If the broadcasted content does not generate enough interest, all other strategies will be irrelevant, and if access to the social networking sites/ tools is not at most three mouse clicks away, people will not bother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-2394887616141282602009-01-27T22:01:00.000-08:002009-01-27T22:01:00.000-08:00I'm still thinking about how impactful last Tuesda...I'm still thinking about how impactful last Tuesday really was! After the swearing in, I too kept the facebook/cnn chat in the corner of my computer window.<BR/><BR/>For the big event - swearing in and speeches - I organized a viewing party to stream it from one of the online news channels for all of my coworkers in our auditorium. We brought snacks and coffee, hooted and hollered and whooped it up. Those that could come only for a few minutes did, while some came in early before anything really started and stayed until everyone filtered out of their seats. I'm so glad I was able to see it, and share it as well.<BR/><BR/>In addition, I followed my twitter stream pretty heartily, and followed the tweets of a high school band that was playing in the Inauguration parade. Experiencing it from so many different viewpoints was such a rich way to do it. It was pretty darn magic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-8854045543108663372009-01-27T13:42:00.000-08:002009-01-27T13:42:00.000-08:00I had the Facebook/CNN window open at work as a si...I had the Facebook/CNN window open at work as a sidebar to whatever I was doing that morning, along with my Gmail and Meebo--so multiple venues to connect with others watching the inauguration, and connecting with different sets of friends in each venue. The Facebook status feed in particular connected me with friends I never chat with, and I really enjoyed sharing this event with them, as I'm not that connected to them on a regular basis but this day brought us together. This event really opened up my eyes to the potential of streaming events to create long distance connections to an institution that is inherently place-bound, like the library I work at. What about streaming a student or faculty reading and marketing it to English major alums? What about a gallery talk that art alums are invited to? This made me connected to something I would have felt very far from otherwise. Exciting stuff!Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03439796911270985158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-28258217870591584502009-01-27T07:20:00.000-08:002009-01-27T07:20:00.000-08:00Thank you for this very interesting article. I thi...Thank you for this very interesting article. I think your experience further highlights the idea that new media is not about technology, but instead offers us new ways to make personal connections. That's what it's really about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-45258741111803337232009-01-26T18:36:00.000-08:002009-01-26T18:36:00.000-08:00Even though I live in DC, my husband was reluctant...Even though I live in DC, my husband was reluctant to brave the crowds downtown, so we had friends over to watch. But before the swearing in, we walked over to the local metro station and filmed me dancing, in costume with various folks headed towards the Mall. (And posted it to http://topsecret.ning.com) Made me feel a part of something bigger, and gave me a chance to connect with friends and strangers! (Including the security guards, hmmm.) Watching the festivities, even over t.v., with friends made it festive and communal as well. Interestingly, it made me feel inhibited about following the web coverage with my laptop--because it felt like that would have isolated me from the other folks in the room.Bodhibadgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13855697978901319125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-61160124392854699622009-01-26T18:29:00.000-08:002009-01-26T18:29:00.000-08:00Stuck at home alone with my wrecked/recovering leg...Stuck at home alone with my wrecked/recovering leg on a brutally cold day, I watched on NBC on the television with the CNN feed in one computer window, Twitter open and the blogs of FiveThirtyEight.com and the Guardian going. Plus gmail was linking me to friends who were watching. All in all, the TV, 2 laptops, and the Blackberry linking me to the experience and to those I wanted to share it with.<BR/><BR/>I think of the ways my friends and I share links, videos, images, music, ideas, all continuously, almost all day. This turns solitary experiences - my buddy seeing the Waterfalls in NYC this summer or me coming out of an operation - into shared social events that I think build human connections in ways we just didn't have before. <BR/><BR/>And it all lets me join. I could say to Twitter that I was thinking about Anne Schwerner during the inauguration. She was a teacher at my high school but back in 1964 she was the mother of a murdered civil rights worker in Philadelphia, MS. I was wishing that she had lived to see this moment - something her son gave his life in hopes of making possible. In this way I, as I linked Michael Schwerner's Wikipedia biography in my Tweet, I added my "exhibit" to the event - maybe for just a few. As others added theirs to my experience of this moment.<BR/><BR/>Amazing stuff.<BR/><BR/>- Ira Socolirasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.com