8. Understanding the mobile behaviors of your audience is the first step in building a mobile strategy or product.
9. Some ways we can think about “the people formerly known as the audience”in museums…
10. Mobile Metrics New Categories: Creating Working Learning http://mashable.com/2011/03/23/mobile-by-the-numbers-infogrpahic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+%28Mashable%29
20. College educated visitors are tech-savvy mobile users Base: 10,971 US adults with college degreesSource: North American Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2010
21. Age is top predictor of behavior Base: 10,971 US adults with college degreesSource: North American Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2010
22. Families with teens text – a LOT Daily 41% 40% 51% 40% 21% 18% 16% 13% 24% 21% 20% 15% Base: 2,941 US adults with college degrees and cell phones in families with children 18 years old and youngerSource: North American Technographics Benchmark Survey, Q2 2010
26. Email from a mobile device is 25% vs 23% overall
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28. Why are they visiting?Whom are they visiting with? Falk’s Identity Segmentations orPeople-Objects-Ideas Explorers Facilitators Experience seekers Professionals/Hobbyists Rechargers Andrew J. Pekarik and Barbara Mogel, CURATOR 53/4 • OCT 2010
32. Mobile is a unique mix: of the personal and the social
33. Mobile is Disruptive Both A new set of tools and platformsfor communications, learning and developing and distributing content Photo CC licensed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/138927384/
34. Mobile is Disruptive And also: A fundamentally new way of connecting, collaborating and learning http://www.queerty.com/smithsonian-not-pleased-with-patrons-bringing-aids-jesus-back-into-the-museum-on-an-ipad-20101206/
36. Some ideas from the museum world: Learning on demand Learning from the crowd& the community Peer-to-peer learning New Opportunities for mLearning
37. Learning on demand & in new contexts Our audiences now access the museum through a wide range of platforms beyond our walls and websites Photo by Mike Lee, 2007; from the American Art Museum’s Flickr Group
46. The People’s Institution James Smithson: “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge” Louise RochonHoover,"Secretary Henry Posts DailyWeather Map in Smithsonian Building, 1858.” The Megatherium Club, a group of young naturalists who collected for the Smithsonian in the 19th C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatherium_Club
47. SI Mobile’s Vision Recruit the world to increase and diffuse knowledge by using mobile platforms to enlist collaborators globally in undertaking the real and important workof the Institution. Put the Smithsonian not just in the people’s pockets, but in their hands.
48. “You don’t need a mobile strategy; you need mobile to be part of the strategy.”
49. SI Mobile’s Strategy Integrate mobile into everything we do to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts; Transform the way the Institution works in order to achieve its strategic goals and vision for the 21stcentury.
50. SI Mobile’s Strategic Goals Engagenew audiences where they are, both on-site and beyond SI’s walls. Create new opportunities for learning, creativity and shared discovery within and beyond the museum and classroom Open access to our data, collections and research and support new uses of it through collaborative structures and platforms. Equip SI staff with new toolsto work at the leading edge of their fields. Transcenddisciplinary boundaries by connecting communities, conversations and initiatives. Update the Smithsonian experience to reflect shared brand values.
51. A crazy idea? “A Wikipedia of the Physical World” http://smithsonian20.si.edu/schedule_webcast2.html
52. Wikipedia …78 million visitors monthly as of January 2010. There are more than 91,000 active contributors working on more than 17,000,000 articles in more than 270 languages. That means the average contributor works on ~186 articles?!
54. Thinking outside the audiotour box “From we do the talking to we help you do the talking.” – Chris Anderson, Wired, Smithsonian 2.0 Conference, 24 Jan 2009 http://smithsonian20.si.edu/schedule_webcast2.html From Headphones to Microphones
55. Mobile Social Media as Art Halsey Burgund’sScapes deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum Lincoln, MA – until Nov 14 http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/16082
62. A Citizen Curator 49 "Creation” 1992TokudaYasokichi , (Japanese, 1933-2009) Heisei era Porcelain with polychrome enamel glazes; H: 8.8 W: 54.8 D: 54.8 cm Komatsu City, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan; Gift of the Japan Foundation Sackler Gallery level 3, S1993.13
The People formerly Known as the audiencehttp://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/ pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html(Jay Rosen, PressThink, June 27, 2006)
Jeff Howe, CrowdsourcingAmy Sample Ward:“Crowdsourcing invites diversity by encouraging anyone with an idea or interest to participateCrowdsourcing levels the playing field so it isn’t just your “favorites” or those you already know that get to play”http://amysampleward.org/2011/05/18/crowdsourcing-vs-community-sourcing-whats-the-difference-and-the-opportunity/
We know these people, so working with them produces different strategies, calls to action and outcomes
Amy Sample Ward:Here are a few instances when crowdsourcing just isn’t a fit:You need things to be very specific or follow tight criteriaYou are working very quickly or flexibly (where communication with the crowd could be difficult or time consuming)You already know what you want (be honest – some times organizations know what they want to do or what the product is they want to build, engaging in a crowdsourced process will only frustrate possible supporters when that truth becomes clear)
A teenager arrives at Postal Museum with hisparents anticipating a boring visit: “Stamps – really?”He is surprised to encounter Owney:“OMG why is there a dog here?” He uses the app to learn more about Owney and watches a video about the stray dog who turned into a celebrity, travelling with U.S. Mail trains across the country, and eventually the world.From Collections Search, he finds out thatOwney received a tag from the teen’s hometown, Cincinnati, Ohio; he posts a photo of the tag to his friends on Facebook and Bookmarks his find in the app.He uses the app to comment, “My great grandfather used to be a mail carrier. I wonder if he ever met Owney.”He reads another user’s comment, “You can follow ‘Owney’ on Twitter! Twitter.com/OwneyTheDog” (Twitter run by NPM education office). Our teen visitor signs up to follow Owney on his own Twitter account.This is crowdsourcing: we may know of this kid, but we don’t know him and he wasn’t previously part of the Smithsonian community, but has possibly made the transition through the social media tools he has used during his first visit.
Our teen visitor represents what we think of as a “typical user”. His comments and engagement are casual, not too in depth, but is a powerful way to start a conversation that is likely to help him remember the Smithsonian positively.We also know that a smaller, but very influential part of our audience are visitors with a high degree of subject expertise. They are often already part of the Smithsonian community and can share information and engage other interested members of the public as well as the Smithsonian’s curators and scientists in a different level of “increase and diffusion of knowledge”.User scenario: A Japanese ceramics collector visits Freer Sackler1. Sees the work “Creation” by Yasokichi. The only information about it is the panel text:2. Uses app to type in accession number into our search to see if there is any information about it3. Collections search only returns basic information4. Visitor knows that this artist died recently and was recognized as a “National Treasure” by the Japanese government; leaves a comment including a link to artist’s obituary (blog post) from 2009 with photo of artist: http://e-yakimono.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-national-treasure-tokuda.htmlNow when other visitors search for object, they will be able to learn more about this object than we are currently able to provide them. The Smithsonian has certainly made enormous strides to make our content easily accessible online, but we still have a long way to go. This presented us with an enormous challenge when designing the app. You can find many of our objects in our collections search, but often there is often little to no information associated with them that is relevant to the public. We can recruit this segment of our visitors to be “citizen curators and scientists” who will engage in higher level conversations about our objects. We will never have enough money and staff to do all that we can and should do at the Smithsonian. By “recruiting the world” – a primary goal of the Smithsonian’s Mobile Strategy – we can not only increase and better diffuse knowledge, but we also engage a broader audiences as true stakeholders and partners in our mission. By recruiting our visitors to help us improve the mobile app, we give them a real stake in its success. This kind of radical use of social media tools has never been done before in a museum or cultural institution guide, and the ethos of collaboration that lies at the heart of this project is what makes it revolutionary, sustainable, and deeply valuable to achieving the Institution’s Four Grand Challenges and its strategic goals.