Mia,
yes I agree - the audience 'need' seems to be inherited from retail in some
cases - i.e. there isn't one, just the need of the org to be seen as taping
another coms channel. That said I think within our educational programme
this approach could work well for a specific context. The problem I have is
getting the non tech specialist (curator etc.) to scale their content to
restrictions of the technology; one approach might be to create a set of
tools that allow non technical content specialists to author directly via a
familiar interface (WP). But I agree, only do this once you've established
there is an actual need that can be met with this technology.
Cheers
K
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> WordPress is a pretty decent CMS these days, but following on from others'
> points, and hopefully without being too user experience cliched response
> about it, what audience need is the beacon-triggered experience meeting? Do
> people want more explanation about objects or exhibition themes - and do
> they want it while they're standing in the gallery or triggered in gallery
> and viewed elsewhere, or something else entirely?
>
> Actually, maybe you could trigger an audience survey from the beacon - at
> the very least it'd give you a chance to understand uptake rates and see
> how much patience people have for the overall process.
>
> Cheers, Mia
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> On 24 June 2014 15:29, Kevin Carter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > we like many museums have been approached by commercial Ibeacon
> > CMS/Hardware vendors - seems the cultural sector is next best placed
> after
> > retail to make use of this kit. I know there have been some innovative
> uses
> > on this tech in museums/galleries - my thought was more about the
> content
> > authoring environment - most of the commercial offerings seem to have
> > standalone CMS's - which create another content silo - what would be good
> > would be a plugin into a generic CMS (Wordpress) and that can push
> content
> > to the beacons - via a fixed template; in this way non tech dept. would
> be
> > able to author content, dynamically -
> >
> >
> > does anybody have any thoughts about this approach ?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > Kevin Carter
> > Royal Museums Greenwich
> > Technical Project Manager - Digital Media
> >
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