AAM: Small Museums & Technology Panel

"Can and Should Small Museums Be Technological Leaders?"

American Association of Museums, Denver, CO

AAM Media & Technology Committee

Chair: Heather McClenahan, Los Alamos Historical Museum, losalamoshistory.org/
Moderator: Holly Witchey, Cleveland Museum of Art, www.clevelandart.org
Panel: George Laughead, Ford County Historical Society, www.kansashistory.us/fordco/
Jim Spadaccini, Ideum, ideum.com/
Heather Marie Wells, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, shilohmuseum.org/

Resources for Small Museums

Maintained courtesy WWW-VL: www.vlib.us/aam/

Web 2.0

• Podcasting: Ken Dickson, Ontario Science Centre, step-by-step directions on how to create a podcast. [www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/dickson/dickson.html]
• Apple Computer: Making a Podcast [www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html]
• Audacity - free software for creating audio for podcasts [audacity.sourceforge.net/]
• Blogging: Nina Simon on why (or why not) museums should have a blog and how to creat one [museumtwo.blogspot.com/2007/03/institutional-blogs-different-voices.html]
• YouTube: Help page YouTube on how to make and upload videos [www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10521]
• Museums on YouTube, selected YouTube examples [www.youtube.com/oldexbeat]

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Social Networking

• Mountain Plains Museums Assoc MySpace, Add all the pre-reviewed museum friends of MPMA volunteer maintained MySpace [www.myspace.com/mpma]
• MPMA Technology Committee MySpace Tips, what MPMA volunteers have learned [www.vlib.us/mpma/]
• MySpace, YouTube and OurMuseums: Using Social Networks for Museums - Reaching Generation Why? [www.vlib.us/mpmatechcom.html]
• Los Alamos Historical Museum MySpace [www.myspace.com/losalamoshistory]
• Mueller-Schmidt House Museum MySpace [www.myspace.com/muellerschmidthouse]
• Spencer Art Museum Myspace [www.myspace.com/spencerart]

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General

• Web tools for non-profits, from WWW-VL [www.vlib.us/websitetools.html]
• Website created by Heather Marie to aid museums in learning about technology [hmbwells.googlepages.com]

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Listservs (Great for getting all kinds of questions answered, even before you ask them!)

• Museum L [www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MUSEUM-L&H=HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]
• Museum Computer Network (MCN - L) [www.mcn.edu/resources/index.asp?subkey=80]
• Small Museums (American Association of State and Local History), [groups.yahoo.com/group/SmallMuseums/]
• Historic House Museums , [groups.yahoo.com/group/historichousemuseums/]
• AASLH, [groups.yahoo.com/group/historichousemuseums/]

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Podcasting & Digital Music

• Podcasting: AAM, Music Licensing for Museums fact sheet [www.aam-us.org/museumresources/ic/cs/eth_legal/rights.cfm]
• Apple Podcasting FAQ [docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301880]
• Audacity, free software make podcasts [audacity.sourceforge.net/]
• Burning Down the House by Eliot Van Buskirk. NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. (great book on using digital music)
• Cnet , includes free podcasting and digital music tutorials [classes.cnet.com/?tag=cnetfd.dir?tag=cnetfd.dir]
• Collegiate Broadcasters, Inc. (info about release forms, copyright, developing terms of use, etc. [www.collegebroadcasters.org/podcast.shtml]
• Creative Commons Podcasting Legal Guide [wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide]
• Digital History | Promises and Perils of Digital History, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University [chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/introduction/]
• Educational Podcast Network [www.epnweb.org/]
• FeedForAll, information about release forms, copyright, developing terms of use, etc. [feedforall.com/rss-copyright-debate.htm]
• MuseumPods [www.museumpods.com/index.html]
• Podcast Platform info about release forms, copyright, developing terms of use, etc. [podcastplatform.com/legal/section-overview]
• Podcasting Bible, by Mitch Ratcliff and Steve Mack.� Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2007.
• Podcasting for Teachers, by Kathleen P. King and Mark Gura. Chicago: Information Age Publishing, 2007.
• Podcasting News, tutorials [www.podcastingnews.com/]
• Podcasting for Dummies, by Tee Morris and Evo Terra. San Mateo, CA: For Dummies, 2006.
• Podscope, search engine for audio and video content [podscope.com]
• Promoting Your Podcast, by Jason Van Orden. N. Potomac, MD: Larstan Publishing Inc., 2006.
• Transom, equipment reviews [www.transom.org/tools]
• Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting]
• Blogging: https://www.blogger.com/start
  • Moveabletype [/www.moveabletype.org]
  • Wordpress [www.wordpress.org]
• Digital Storytelling (note: a number of these tools can be used to create video podcasts) [cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools]
• 50 sites for digital storytelling � [cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools]
• Microsoft Photo Story 3 (free) [www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx]
• Windows Movie Maker (free with Service Pack 2) [www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx]
• Wikis: PBwiki (free) [pbwiki.com/]
• Google sites (free) [sites.google.com]
• WikiSpaces (free) [www.wikispaces.com]
• Wetpaint (free) [www.wetpaint.com]
• Photo Sharing: Flickr (owned by Yahoo -- important for image search - free) [www.flickr.com/]

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Great Technology References

• Archives & Museum Informatics - [www.archimuse.com]
• CA School Library Learning 2.0 - [schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/]
• Claymation Made Easy - [education.wichita.edu/claymation/resources.html]
• C-net - http://www.cnet.com/
• The Consortium for School Networking - [www.cosn.org/]
• Creative Commons - [creativecommons.org/]
• Google for Educators - [www.google.com/educators/index.html]
• Google Support - [google.com/support/]
• Innovative Technology Center - [itc.utk.edu/]
• iTunesU - [www.apple.com/education/itunesu/]
• MIT Online Courses - [ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm]
• Museum Computer Network [www.mcn.edu/index.asp]
• MuseumPods - [www.museumpods.com/index.html]
• Museums and the Web - [www.archimuse.com/conferences/mw.html]
• PC Magazine - [www.pcmag.com/]
• PC World online - [www.pcworld.com/]
• TeacherTube [www.teachertube.com/]
• TechSoup - [techsoup.com/]
• Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page]
• YouTube, owned by google [youtube.com/]

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Server Providers

• Go Daddy � [www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp]
• Internet Archive � [www.archive.org/index.php]
• Liberated Syndication � [www.libsyn.com/index.php?&mode=logout&message=]
• Our Media � [www.ourmedia.org]
• Dan�s Domain Site Tips � [domains.dan.info/tips/]
• The List �[www.thelist.com/]

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Tutorials

• RSS [www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english]
• Social Networking [www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking]
• Wikis [www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english]

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Digital Rights & Image Management

• The Digital Museum: A Think Guide, by Herminia Din and Phyllis Hecht (Eds). Washington, D. C.: American Association of Museums, 2007
• BCR Imaging Best Practices � [www.bcr.org/cdp/best/index.html]
• Citizen�s Guide Digital Rights Management [www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/citizens_guide_to_drm.pdf]

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Software Directories

• Filehippo [www.filehippo.com]
• Free Software Foundation [directory.fsf.org/]
• Internet Related Technologies, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML code for adding to websites [/www.irt.org]
• Source Forge [sourceforge.net/]
• Tucows [www.tucows.com/]
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) [www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/]
• Wikipedia - [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_software_packages]
• Software, selected for WWW-VL use [vlib.iue.it/history/network/software.html]

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RSS Readers

• Bottom Feeder [www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/]
• Google Reader [www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html]
• Sage [sage.mozdev.org/]

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Virtual tours

• Mueller-Schmidt House Museum 1881, Dodge City, KS [QT virtual tour of Old West cattleman's limestone Victorian Gothic mansion]
• Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX [outstanding use of flash]

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Selected educational podcasts

• Art Institute of Chicago [www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/podcasts/musecast/]
• Colonial Williamsburg � [www.history.org/media/podcasts.cfm]
• Cool Things Podcast, Kansas State Historical Society [www.kshs.org/audiotours/coolthings/]
• Delta Blues Museum � [www.deltabluesmuseum.org/high/podcast.asp]
• Georgia Educational Technology Consortium, [podcast.ksuettc.org/]
• Kennesaw State University�s ETTC, [www.ksuettc.org/podcast/]
• Los Alamos Historical Society Podcasts [www.losalamoshistory.org/pods.htm]
• Monticello � Thomas Jefferson Fnd. � [www.monticello.org/podcasts/]
• Shiloh Museum of Ozark History � [www.springdaleark.org/shiloh/podcasts/podcast_info.htm]
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts � Art on the Air [www.vmfa.museum/artonair.html]

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Selected blogs

• The Art of Technology [arstechnica.com/index.ars]
• Ideum Blog, [www.ideum.com/blog/]
• Jakob Nielsen on usability [www.useit.com/]
• Museum Blogs [museumblogs.org/]
• Museums 2.0 [www.museumtwo.blogspot.com]
• The OG Blog: Thoughts and News on Museums, Technology and Philanthropy Orinda Group [orindagroup.blogspot.com/]

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Fundraising Web Sites

• Charitableway.com provides donors with a source of information on U.S. non-profits and allows for secure, online donations [http://www.charitableway.com/]
• Cybergrants.com, an interactive online philanthropy Web portal that allows non-profits to access, free of charge, research grant guidelines and create, maintain and submit online proposals directly to member foundations [http://www.cybergrants.com/]
• Changing Our World, provides articles about fundraising and links to articles about philanthropy that have been published by news organizations [http://www.changingourworld.com/]
• Don Griesmann's Nonprofit Blog, Griesmann posts a variety of information and resources for non-profit organizations, including links to funding opportunities and articles [http://dongriesmannsnonprofitblog.blogspot.com/]

Also see AAM Learning in Museums Seminar 2008: Technology, Interpretation and Learning in Museums, June 20-21, 2008 - Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, In collaboration with the AAM Committee on Education (EdCom) and the AAM Media and Technology Committee (M&T)