Specifically, Tag! You’re It!

One of the things we’ve gotten to know about our community is people often have specialized areas of interest.  In just one example, we’ve gotten to know Vincent Brown and his interest is in all things Egypt, so we started to think about our tagging game and adjustments we could make to enhance the experience for visitors who want to focus on certain types of objects.

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So, today, we are introducing “Change My Settings.” From within Tag! You’re It!, you can now change your game preferences by selecting the areas of our collection that you’d like to see:

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As Mike mentioned earlier, joining the Posse is now easier than ever with our Google account integration and we are excited enough about these enhancements, that Bob (along with a few willing participants) made us a really awesome video to celebrate.  Have fun tagging and many thanks for all your enthusiasm (50,000+ tags!!) thus far!

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About Shelley Bernstein

Shelley is the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum's community-oriented mission through projects including free public wireless access, web-enabled comment books, projects for mobile devices and putting the Brooklyn Museum collection online. She is the initiator and community manager of the Museum's initiatives on the social web. She organized Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition, Split Second: Indian Paintings, and GO: a community-curated open studio project. In 2010, Shelley was named one of the 40 Under 40 in Crain's New York Business and she's been featured in the New York Times. She can be found biking to work or driving '74 VW Super Beetle in Red Hook, Brooklyn with her dog Teddy. ::contact::
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2 Responses to Specifically, Tag! You’re It!

  1. This is an excellent improvement! I just went and played Tag! then and it makes a great difference. Before this change was implemented I was hitting the ‘next’ button all the time, now that every single image is an Egyptian artifact I am enjoying tagging much more.

    I feel like this feature was added just for me! :-)

    Thanks Shelly and the Brooklyn Museum team!

  2. Hi Vincent, thanks for taking this for a spin! Yay! – no more skipping!!

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