A number of things happen after a visitor has a chat with our ASK team. At the end of each day, the ASK team takes the…
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ASK Brooklyn Museum for Android is now available on Google Play. We had one early quandary, but this was a fairly straightforward development process. That is, until we…
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As reported earlier, the Android version of our ASK app is due to launch in April. For the most part, the app will look and…
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Our Android release is coming in April. I’m often asked about our strategy to expand into Android when 74% of our users are on iOS…
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It’s been just over a year since I wrote about the realities of installing ibeacon to scale. Our ASK app, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, has been active…
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I’m sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that getting out of your own head every once in a while can have great benefits. We’ve…
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Things have been pretty quiet over here for a while—have you noticed? We had been blogging our progress on ASK weekly and in my last post…
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As summer draws to a close, so does our testing for the location of our ASK team. You may remember the results from our earlier testing in…
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We all struggle with how to measure success. We’re thinking a lot about this right now as we begin to put the pieces together from…
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If you think about it, building a project is fairly straightforward. It’s a one way street of sorts; a controlled process with steps involved, tests we can run, and timelines…
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Sara and I couldn’t be happier to have ASK featured on Museum 2.0, so instead of blogging our own progress this week we’ll point you…
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We’ve talked a lot about how user expectations helped shape our implementation. There are times when it’s incredibly valuable to listen to your users, but there…
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As you’ve been reading, ASK Brooklyn Museum isn’t just about an app—it’s an initiative that seeks to re-envision our visitor experience from top to bottom. That “top”…
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In every project there’s always a moment where the timeline starts to shrink. You start to look at your launch date and the to do list (ours is…
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When you’ve got any tool that is designed to answer questions the danger is that people think it’s an automated system; with ASK we need to…
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In my previous post, I talked a lot about agile development and where we failed it. Agile has also thrown us some serious curves in…
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As we march toward our June launch for ASK, it’s a good moment to look back at some of the issues we’ve faced along the way….
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The most passionate debates in our office have centered around how we are using geofencing in our upcoming app to present different information to users dependent upon…
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We have an incredible opportunity in front of us; the folks who will be using our ASK app are coming through the door every day, so we…
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Location aware technology as part of Bloomberg Connects is pretty vital. We use it to tell the staff answering questions which gallery a visitor is standing…
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Brian and Jennie have been talking about our forthcoming mobile application, which is one of the public facing components of our Bloomberg Connects project, but…
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If you’ve been reading the blog lately you know we’ve been taking stock of our digital efforts and making considerable changes. I’ve been discussing what’s not…
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As Sara mentioned in her previous posts, we’ve been careful in this project to let visitor need pave the way toward an idea. It was…
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We are incredibly excited that Bloomberg Philanthropies has funded a three-year initiative as part of Bloomberg Connects and it gives us the opportunity to significantly improve…
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Remember my post on Social Change? We’ve been evaluating our digital projects with a careful eye toward what’s working and what isn’t. At this juncture,…
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There comes a moment in every trajectory where one has to change course. As part of a social media strategic plan, we are changing gears…
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If you’ve ever heard me speak at conferences you know that one of our most successful technology projects is also one of our simplest—the comment…
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In the last year, we’ve seen a lot happening in the museum space with 3D printing. The Smithsonian is working on what looks like a enormous project,…
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It’s hard to believe we are here after dozens of artist and voter meetups throughout the summer; an exhilarating open studio weekend that resulted in…
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GO is a project that’s rooted in community, but “community” is one of those words that can have a lot of different meanings. As Sharon…
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As we continue to move forward throughout the summer, it seems fitting to talk about the inspiration behind GO. I’ve already mentioned that the Brooklyn…
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When Sharon and I first started discussing the project that would become GO, one of our sources of inspiration was a map that the Brooklyn…
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You’ve probably heard that if Brooklyn were its own city, we’d be the fourth largest in the United States. With a land mass of 73…
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It’s been roughly three and half years since Will Cary and I started the 1stfans Membership program at the Museum; come July, the program will…
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You may remember my blog post a while back, QR in the New Year? In it, I talked about our QR code testing and reported…
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Starting today, you can find the Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project. I’m here in Paris at the launch for the second phase where more…
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A while back, I reported that we were in the process of a trial period with QR codes. We’ve just taken a look at the…
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One of the questions people always ask me is how web differs from what happens in the building and that’s a difficult thing to get…
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When most of us think about the roaring twenties, we envision scenes of flappers cutting loose on the dance floor, bustling cities filling with new…
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As Eugenie noted in her post, The Moving Garden is installed in our Rubin Pavilion and the artist invites the visitor to take a flower…
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I’ve long been a critic of QR Codes. When I look around, I see low adoption rates, technical hurdles for end users and some really…
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As Jenny mentioned in her previous post, we had an interactive running on a series of iPads in Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue Skinned Savior and now that…
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Watching Split Second: Indian Paintings get installed into the gallery this week has been a real thrill for me. I believe it is vital that…
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If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin’s map before their launch on…
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If you read Lisa’s post on the animal mummy field trip to the Animal Medical Center and got as excited as we did, follow us…
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It’s been two years since we released our collections database API and since that time we’ve seen a variety of use from iPhone and iPad…
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Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? To celebrate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s office is hosting Poem In Your…
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Now that Seductive Subversion has closed, it’s time to look at the Wikipop project and report on what we’ve seen in the galleries over the…
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