Mario Bucolo Museums Blog

From an intersting site: Marketing Routes, a useful link with a collection of Web 2.0 tools and sites.

GO2WEB20

Hope will be useful for all of you.

There is a lack of a unique thematic mailing list about marketing and communication in and for museums. The list can also operate as a forum between professional involved in mktg, comm and PR.
There is the PRAM list from the PR and Marketing committee of American Association of Museums that is the most active one, but it is not much aware on the European side.

I also think that it will be useful to create a forum/round-table of museums marketing and communication professionals.

There is the chance to create two version of the list, I waiting for opinion and ideas. One open to all people who can have interest in the field and one more professional oriented, open only to professionals with demonstrable references.

To be ready and concrete, I start to create the list

here the address to subscribe:

http://lists.museumland.net/listinfo.cgi/mmcl-museumland.net

Many thanks to all for cooperation.

Another Web2.0 utility

with backpack it is possible to archive and share ideas, photos, to do list, calendar, events etc

Probably all of you is now aware about the new Apple iPhone that will create the revolution on the way to use cell phones.
But the iPhone can find an ideal usage also in museums environment as a video/audio/web guide, all into a unique device connected by Wi-Fi or by Edge protocol.

We start to work in cooperation with Apple to test it as museums visitors tools.

Who will have ideas or comment to share please do it here or write me directly.

Mario

Photo Agency of the Réunion des Musées nationaux de France is putting together a veritable archival treasure.

You need only a word, a title or an author to initiate a search that will always reward you. This Oracle-based site gives access to all national museums. The list is a long one including the Musée du Louvre, d’Orsay, Pompidou, Guimet, Picasso, de l’Orangerie, le Musée Rodin or Delacroix, the Bibliothèque de l’Institut, as well as the Chantilly, Compiègne, Écouen, les Granges de Port-Royal, Fontainebleau, Ajaccio, Nice, Matisse, Message biblique de Chagall, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac and the Musée de Préhistoire.

From the site, you can access many other groupings via the Joconde database that classifies and lists under one of its many headings all the tables possible according to a variety of criteria: alphabetical, administrative document, iconology, lyric poetry, almanac, drama, images, proverbs, past records, eloquence, word games, psalms, biographies, sagas, etc.

Since 1999, an effective query function on the photo.rmn site has been supported by the Auracom search engine, created by a French company founded by Michel Martinez.

Thanks for this info to AVICOM web site 

An intersting tool to share information and to work online on a common whiteboard:

” The complete web whiteboard.
Just start skrbl, give out your URL and instantly share online.
Use skrbl to collaborate with others or, keep it your own private web space.
Write notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures, share files…
Everyone sees the same screen,
Everybody stays on the same page.”

skrbl.com 

Web 2.0 is in continue evolution, now there is the chance to edit pictures online. It is possible to resize, adjust, crop or enhance pictures free and without any software.

It is possible to import and save pictures from any URL or from Flickr and it is possible to save in GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIFF.

It is possible to do at SNIPSHOT.com

…update…

another source is: picnik.com 

There are a small but growing number of PDFs appearing in iTunes, users can subscribe to podcasts to automatically receive audio and video - and recently - PDF

Here a complete guide to PDF in iTunes

There are also example of PDF regarding museums.

It will be useful for museums to put PDFs in iTunes.

Apple just announce the iPhone, it is an iPod, a Cell Phone, an Internet Navigator, just in one device.

With 3.5″ screen inch, WiFi, GSM, 8gb ram

It will be the revolution to use this device in a museum like a video/photo/audio guide.

Directly on the Apple web site to have more info.

A very useful service-site http://www.futureme.org

Where You can send yourself scheduled e-mail, via that site, into future just to help to remember something.