Conxa Rodà Our team at the National Museum have been active in several ways in this edition of Museums and the Web, held in Cleveland from 19th to 22 April: being part of the program Committee, members of the Jury of the Awards and giving 2 presentations: a 3-hours workshop on content strategy and a…
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Jana Soto As we explained in the post Museum libraries: the great unknown, this type of library, historically, has not enjoyed great visibility outside its museum’s walls. Each library and its staff are responsible for carrying out the actions needed to showcase the centre, as well as communicating its resources and services to the general…
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Conxa Rodà Connections and new learning was the intense activity during the edition of the Museums and the Web Asia 2015 held in October in Melbourne. Our museum participated by running a Hands-on Content Strategy Workshop and by presenting the website renovation. As we often do in this blog, we will try to sum up…
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Conxa Rodà This third and final part of the series about the tech trends in museums deals with the technologies that go beyond 2015. To some it might seem a bit futurist. But it would be very convenient for us to be alert to the social digital trends and uses, and to keep experimenting and…
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Conxa Rodà Technology, we all know and experience, evolves very quickly. Some advances have become well rooted and extended at a breakneck speed. Others that it seemed would do so have been left aside on the way. This suggests a certain prudence prior to embarking our museum on new developments, channels or functionalities, but without…
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Conxa Rodà 10 apps have been the finalists of the #Apps Cultura 2014 awards out of 28 projects which involved 415 participants in this second Edition. Our museum was invited to form part of the jury that last Friday decided on the winners in a final gala which took place in the headquarters of the…
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Conxa Rodà Connecting collections with audiences is key to the social profitability of the museums nowadays. The museums that know better how to establish multiple connections with multiple audiences will be those that have greater social impact. If we had to sum up in one word the concept of the museum, I think a very…
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Conxa Rodà A major success in terms of attendance, spectacular new devices, either tablets, mobiles or wearables, quite another world that seems a long way from the museums. But not so far if we think that what can now have futuristic tinges, with a vertiginous evolution of the technology and of the social practices, could…
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