http://museummobile.info Media & Technology on the Go Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:03:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Interviews with leading practitioners about mobile interpretation for museums and cultural sites, and mobile interpretation product evaluations. Nancy Proctor no Nancy Proctor nancy@pinkink.net nancy@pinkink.net (Nancy Proctor) Creative Commons License Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 United States Media & Technology on the Go mobile,museums,handheld,interpretation,technology,audiotour,multimedia,podcast,cellphone,iPhone,wireless,web http://museummobile.info/podcasts/MMPodcastTitle.jpg http://museummobile.info http://museummobile.info/archives/234 http://museummobile.info/archives/234#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:36:45 +0000 nancyproctor http://museummobile.info/?p=234 ‘Micro-volunteering’ is a new mobile arena being pioneered by The Extraordinaries, among others. In this podcast, I speak with Jacob Colker, CEO and co-founder of the start-up company, about how volunteers can donate small amounts of time to help non-profits with tasks like tagging images, checking addresses, or translating text through their web-enabled phones. Along the way Jacob comes up with some great ideas of how museums can use mobile apps to reinforce its role as a platform, connecting visitors in the galleries to people around the world. Noting that mobile is about ‘real-time’ interaction, he also discusses the future of ‘traditional’ cellphone uses, like voice calls and SMS, predicting the obsolescence of the latter – in the US anyway – within the next 5 years. We give a shout-out for the Steve.Museum social tagging project, and each get in a little call for museums to ‘let go’ and put at least as much energy into figuring out how to make innovations work as we currently invest in nay-saying.

]]> http://museummobile.info/archives/234/feed 1 App,BeExtra.org,Blackberry,cellphone,charity,Christian Zimmern,Frontline SMS,fundraising,iPhone,Jacob Colker,micro-donations,micro-volunteering ‘Micro-volunteering’ is a new mobile arena being pioneered by The Extraordinaries, among others. In this podcast, I speak with Jacob Colker, CEO and co-founder of the start-up company, about how volunteers can donate small amounts of time to help non-p... ‘Micro-volunteering’ is a new mobile arena being pioneered by The Extraordinaries (http://beextra.org), among others. In this podcast, (http://museummobile.info/archives/category/podcasts/feed) I speak with Jacob Colker, CEO and co-founder of the start-up company, about how volunteers can donate small amounts of time to help non-profits with tasks like tagging images, checking addresses, or translating text through their web-enabled phones. Along the way Jacob comes up with some great ideas of how museums can use mobile apps to reinforce its role as a platform, connecting visitors in the galleries to people around the world. Noting that mobile is about 'real-time' interaction, he also discusses the future of 'traditional' cellphone uses, like voice calls and SMS, predicting the obsolescence of the latter - in the US anyway - within the next 5 years. We give a shout-out for the Steve.Museum (http://steve.museum/) social tagging project, and each get in a little call for museums to 'let go' and put at least as much energy into figuring out how to make innovations work as we currently invest in nay-saying. ;-) Nancy Proctor no