Sounds like your most of the way there with the right ideas on how you want
the content to work with the beacons. I also think that layering the data
is important. some people may simply want the what am i looking at info,
but the beauty of a computer based system is that if its structured
correctly those that want to can delve deeper.
G
On 24 June 2014 17:59, Kevin Carter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> yes agree wholeheartedly - the point being we want to get the right people
> to author content, but in a particular context, not delivering some 600
> word essay as a attachment that has to be deployed by a technical middle
> person ! -
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Tony Crockford <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > On 24 Jun 2014, at 15:29, Kevin Carter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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 ?
> >
> > That’s the approach we’re working with. (nothing to demonstrate publicly
> > yet)
> >
> > However, all the shiny content delivery ideas and new tech means of
> > presenting it means nothing if you haven’t got a decent story to tell.
> >
> > Write the story first. Then think about how best to tell it.
> >
> > I think it’s too easy to believe a new technology will inspire the story,
> > but it really is the other way round.
> >
> > :o)
> >
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