1.The Museum as Distributed Network: Best principles and practices for mobile product development
Or
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
With apologies to Gil Scott-Heron
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2. The Eternal City - Peter Blume, 1934-37
MoMA. Oil on board. 45 in. x 59 in.
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A617&page_number=5&template_id=1&sort_order=1
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3. Wall's Sausage Factory in Acton, London
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4. http://allisondawnpr.com/blog/tag/grassroots-public-relations/
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5. The Multiplatform Museum
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6. The Multiplatform Museum
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8. Are museums a fad?
http://smithsonian20.si.edu/schedule_webcast1.html
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9. Are museums a fad?
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10. Citizens Band Radio, ca. 1970s
http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/CB-radio-history-facts/2010/12/06/id/379101
http://www.remusicas.org/videos/locals-talking-on-cb-radio-;21cLe55KGj8.html
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11. Tweet me @MyHandle
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/NTR_22Route66sign.JPG
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12. Encounter MC Escher, 1944
http://www.scoroncocolo.com/PhoGal.html
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13. Ascending Staircase MC Escher, 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending_and_Descending
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14. http://feminismandcurating.pbworks.com/Smithsonian
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15. The Museum isa Social Network
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16. More than multiplatform
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17. Athenian mixing bowl c. 470-460 BC
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, photograph by L. Molnar.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/phys/observatory/images/asteroid_names-Rhipeus/
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18. The Museum is transforming from Acropolis
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Greece/Attica/Attiki/Athens/photo442345.htm
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19. into Agora
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athens_Roman_Agora_01.JPG
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20. The Museum is a Distributed Network
Edward Hoover, 2010, from Flickr.
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21. SI Mobiles Vision
Recruit the world
to increase and diffuse knowledge
by using mobile platforms to enlist collaborators globally in undertaking the real and important workof the Institution.
Put the Smithsonian not just in the peoples pockets,
but in their hands.
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22. The Peoples Institution
James Smithson:
for the increase
and diffusion of
knowledge
Louise RochonHoover,"Secretary Henry Posts DailyWeather Map in Smithsonian Building, 1858.
The Megatherium Club, a group of young naturalists who collected for the Smithsonian in the 19th C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium_Club
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23. Thinking outside the audiotour box
From we do the talking to
we help you do the talking.
Chris Anderson, Wired, Smithsonian 2.0 Conference, 24 Jan 2009 http://smithsonian20.si.edu/schedule_webcast2.html
From Headphones to Microphones
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24. NMNH Leafsnap
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25. Smithsonian Mobile
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26. Stories from Main Street
http://storiesfrommainstreet.org/
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27. Hypostomustaphorni from NMNHs Guyana expedition, 2011
http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/03/facebook-friends-help-scientists-quickly-identify-nearly-500-fish-specimens-collected-in-guyana/
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29. V&A Crowdsourcing
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/
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30. Powerhouse Museum: original online record, incomplete
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/
another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/
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31. Powerhouse Museum: 1 week later
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=248651
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32. Its NOT about the Technology
Fraunhofer Institute, Kunstmuseum Bonn:Beat Zoderer exhibition (Listen project) 2003
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33. http://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Virtual-Feminist-Museum-Archive/dp/0415413745/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317122632&sr=1-3
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34. http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/WhatsOn/exhibitions/ETuAke/Pages/default.aspx
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35. TepaeaHinerangi early 1830s1911, NgatiRuanuiHeitiki (pendant in human form)
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=55399&term=taonga
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36. Oedipus Explaining the Enigma of the Sphinx Ingres, 1808-27
Muse du Louvre/A. Dequier - M. Bard
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37. Antigone leads Oedipus out of Thebes Jalbert, 1849
Muse des Beaux Arts, Marseilles
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38. More about Mobile
http://si.edu/mobile
http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Mobile
http://wiki.museummobile.info/
http://tatehandheldconference.pbworks.com
#mtogo
#SImobile
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