Nancy’s Tweets for 2009-05-03

Posted on | May 3, 2009 | No Comments

• We still have so far to go: Overheard “I could never live here; it’s overrun with Mexicans. Not that I have anything against Mexicans…”:-( #
• And now for some more inspiring news: The youngest Ziegfeld Girl is still dancing at 105; got her BA in history at 88: http://is.gd/uTy3 #
• RT @jtrant: On 28 Apr ’09 the avg. [US]woman’s wages will catch up w/ the avg man’s in ’08 http://bit.ly/3wDSgd #fairpay rt @TheWomensMuseum #
• Smithsonian American Art Museum’s looking for a creative web developer half-fulltime, temp app’t initially, great place & team DM me! #
• Just joined a twibe: http://twibes.com/museums Wondering if others find twibes useful, or just embarrassing to say? #
• On my way to Philly for AAM. Is everyone using the hashtag #aam2009? #
• So many awesome things on @AmericanArt.si.edu this weekend I’m sorry I’ll be away! Free film from 1934 tonight & Jean Shin opens tomorrow… #
• RT @anode: @NancyProctor Looks like we have both #aam09 and #aam2009 going. However #aam09 is the AAM standard. #
• RT @JenServenti: RT @nomad246 Conservation conf, May 11 in DC, U.S./ Italy on “Sustainable Cultural Heritage” http://tinyurl.com/daqrmp #NEH #
• Hey IMA are these Babbled? They sound fab! RT @indyartgirl: Guggenheim CEO + IMA ‘s Director’s Conversation Series http://bit.ly/2Iycqc #
• Where are the Muse awards? No one at the convention center has a clue! #
• Apple is making a fortune off of me because I go through the iPhone headphones so fast; any robust alternatives? #
• RT @titusbicknell: great boss hiring web dev XHTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL-Mac/PC multi browser support+iPhone/Android/Rim http://is.gd/vQUe please RT #
• W00t! RT @americanart: Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired Nam June Paik’s estate archive!!! http://tinyurl.com/paikarc #
• & @johngordy, come-back kid (NGA) wipes out Getty @nhoneysett & AmericanArt to win Museo-Jeopardy #aam09-guess we should call him Mr Wall St #
• Mayor Michael Nutter gives great welcome to #aam09 -Philly is lucky to have such a strong arts advocate at the helm! #
• RT @museum_flavor: “Peter Samis is to museum tech what James Brown is to soul.” Nik Honeysett #aam09 #
• Jeff Howe summarizes his book, Crowdsourcing, as ‘Wikipedia for everything’ #aam09 #
• JHowes: Conventional economics don’t explain highly skilled professionals donating lots of time to crowdsourcing projects for no pay #aam09 #
• Jeff Howe: Conventional economics don’t explain highly skilled professionals donating time to crowdsourcing projects for no pay #aam09 #
• Maggie Jackson implies that distractions are fault of tech, but I find stray thoughts more distracting; tweeting her helps me focus! #aam09 #
• Maggie Jackson: majority of students surveyed can’t judge objectivity/quality of websites. Was this study ever done on print media? #aam09 #
• Maggie Jackson misunderstands Jane McGonigal @avantgame on games to solve real world problems-they help us practice, experiment&learn #aam09 #
• Jeff Howe: under given conditions diversity will trump expertise every time-I’d like to see that algorithm, not that I’d get it! #aam09 #
• Interesting concept in ? from audience about Museum’s responsibility to provide a safe social space #aam09 #
• Jeff Howe: use crowdsourcing judiciously: crowds are great at defining what’s important, not at producing polished final copy/product #aam09 #
• Nice sympathy: skimming vs going deep in attention levels w/ soundtrack/soundbite mobile content types @http://MuseumMobile.info/wiki #aam09 #
• RT @Art_News: British pop artist David Hockney unveils iPhone #artworks http://tinyurl.com/dze2tr #
• James Bradburne: engaging in ‘visible listening’ to bring more voices into Palazzo Strozzi #aam09 #
• Loic Tallon: Underwater World, Senosa Is, Singapore, fish are tagged with RFID; they swim past a reader to trigger interpretation! #aam09 #
• Isabel Froes: great presentation of mobile art in Brazil from Arte.mov in Belo Horizonte & MobileFest, Sao Paolo – can’t wait to go! #aam09 #
• Perhaps the most useful session I’ve attended so far: John Durel on Strategic Thinking & Planning #aam09 #
• Durel: Most strategic plans don’t have strategies but are a list of goals & to-dos. #aam09 #
• Durel: The aim of a strategic plan is not to tell us what to do, but to get us thinking & acting strategically. #aam09 #
• Durel: Thinking & acting strategically means getting very good at being responsive to change. #aam09 #
• Darwin: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. #aam09 #
• GMU Center for History and New Media survey of museums on mobile adoption, results just posted on MuseumMobile.info http://is.gd/wflu #aam09 #
• Such a good feeling to start the day with a full battery! (btw the AA battery charger for iPhone only lasts a tweet or two) #aam09 #
• ‘History favors the early adapter’: nice twist on the popular phrase recalling earlier Darwin quote by @johnmaccabee #aam09 #
• Love the name of the Whitney’s teen tour: ‘The Whit Talk & Txt Tour’ #aam09 #
• Will Twitter via data connection kill SMS/MMS? Thoughts sent in next 10 min can join the discussion in the SMS/mobile session at #aam09 #
• GuideByCell feature allows visitors to txt in the day they’ll be coming to the museum, to receive parking alerts etc that day only #aam09 #
• Dave Asheim: Visitors to Air&Space Museum can txt any question to visitor services – from where is bathroom to how does a rocket work #aam09 #
• Dave Asheim turns us on to fun Q&A service http://www.chacha.com – ask anything, get correct answer >85% of time #aam09 #
• Darwin & Dickens come to mind: Malcolm Gladwell giving a great talk on patience & persistence as keys to success, not talent & smarts #aam09 #
• Not something I thought I’d ever see on the stage@ #aam09 -bikini-clad surfers. Will this be LA’s uniform? Shld narrow the presenters’ field #
• To those joining the wiki@ http://MuseumMobile.info – are you notified by WordPress when I make you editors? If not, you all are now! #aam09 #
• RT @foundhistory: A great question: http://is.gd/wpW0 – yeah, like, duh! How many more of our academic practices should we ask this ? of? #
• I’m not leaving Cracker Barrel until I win the peg game! #

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