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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::Split Second Thank You
The online evaluation phase of Split Second: Indian Paintings came to a close yesterday evening and now it’s time to say thanks to everyone who gave us some of their time to help us build the show that will open this summer. … Continue reading
Next up, what you see is what you get.
This post continues the discussion about the tool we developed for Split Second. Once you get past stressing and (possibly) scrolling in the timed trial, the tool asks you to slow down and consider a work in various ways prior to … Continue reading
Stressing and Scrolling in a Blink
One of the things we wanted to do with Split Second is talk about the tool that we developed for the online activity. Much like the evaluation tool we developed for Click! A Crowd Curated Exhibition, a lot of thought … Continue reading
What do you see in a split-second?
Today, we are launching Split Second: Indian Paintings and it’s something I’ve been excited about for quite a while. Split Second is an opportunity to facilitate a collaboration between our curators and our online community using technology and the web to … Continue reading
Wikipop iPads and Visitor Metrics
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 run of the exhibition. In general, we believe this was one of our more successful interactives in … Continue reading
App Store Confusion Necessitates API Changes
The museum is well represented in the Apple App Store with not one, but two applications. The first was released in May 2009 by Adam Shackelford, an independent developer, who used our API to create the Brooklyn Museum Mobile Collection … Continue reading
1stfans: Shifting Focus and Moving to Meetup.com
As originally conceived, 1stfans was designed to engage both near and faraway supporters, but having run the program for almost two years, we’ve been seeing what works and what doesn’t and it’s time to respond and change the program. So … Continue reading
Welcome to WikiPop, 25 Articles in English (on iPads in the Gallery)
Seductive Subversion opens today and the show takes a look at the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art. The exhibition team wanted to keep things simple in the gallery—a spare look, so the pop … Continue reading
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Tagged ipad, popartwomen, wikipedia, wikipop
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A Response to Rothstein’s “From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided Along by Phone Apps”
Many of you may have seen Edward Rothstein’s assessment of mobile technology in museums, but if you haven’t it is certainly worth a read and a bit of discussion. The article looks at our mobile application along with the Museum … Continue reading
Where in the Wikiverse is the Brooklyn Museum?
Today, we are releasing a new feature in the labs area of the collection online that reports on our recent project to cross-post no known copyright images to Wikimedia Commons. When we started the project to cross-post all those images, … Continue reading
Brooklyn Museum Mobile Web on iPhone and Droid
Today we are releasing apps for both iPhone and Droid that, simply, wrap our mobile website. If we have a mobile website, you may be asking why we felt we needed to release apps that basically do the same thing. … Continue reading
Shout(Out) Brooklyn! A Visitor-Curated Target First Saturday
Last month, our Adult Programs team came to me asking how we could help create a visitor-curated Target First Saturday. It was one of those situations where the web team didn’t have a ton of time, but the idea of … Continue reading
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Rethinking Twitter with ConnectTweet
For as long as we’ve had the Brooklyn Museum Twitter account, I’ve been the sole voice behind it, but today we are trying something new. Ben Hedrington, the developer behind ConnectTweet, has given us the go ahead to alpha test … Continue reading
Remix American High Style with Polyvore!
I’ll admit that I get inspiration from somewhat odd places and three weeks ago, inspiration struck as I was reading the New Yorker and came across an article on Polyvore. Polyvore is an online fashion community where participants use a … Continue reading
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Poetry Comes to our Collection Online
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 Pocket Day and we are taking part. If you show up this Thursday, April 14th … Continue reading…