Building coronacollectie.nl, a participatory storytelling and collection...
Recently, the team of VISSCH+STAM launched coronacollectie.nl, a participatory platform where everyone can contribute to the historiography of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative quickly gained...
View ArticleCollecting the story of a crisis
Earlier this week the team of VISSCH+STAM launched coronacollectie.nl. On this website, everyone can contribute to the historiography of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this effort, when the crisis is...
View ArticleThe INNL website and network relaunch!
When we learned that the Museum of National History was going to disappear late 2011, we tried to find a new home for our highly successful (and often un-museum-like) products. Last week the new home...
View Article12 simple and free improvements to your website you can make tonight
Photo by Luis Alberto on Flickr.com. Last year around this time I made a list of 28 32 simple and low-budget things you can do with new media for your cultural institution. And it worked… at least in...
View ArticleWhat makes visitors come (back)?
Here’s the textbook example of the development of something online AD 2011. It’s a post on this blog, but in my experience represents most of our online work. In this example, exactly seven days...
View ArticleGrowth of mobile visitors and the phones they use on innl.nl
Photo by JD Hancock on Flickr.com Today I began working on the quarterly report of my museum’s new media activities for Q2. People who follow this blog will know I usually find something useful in the...
View ArticleUsing the Netherlands as a museum – launch of “x was hier”
The xwashier marker at Schokland. Last week we silently launched our new project xwashier, or “x was here” in English. In many ways, it’s the pinnacle of our view on museums, media and technology....
View ArticleQuick note: A parallax scroll-fest of Dutch history
The church that is the office of the Museum of National History is being turned upside down to create a 100 square meter exposition about Dutch history, 100m2NL. In many ways, it’s the pinnacle of a...
View ArticleHow to measure engagement and participation? An experiment with Google Analytics
Every now and then someone asks me how our new media activities influence people’s engagement and participation with our museum. In a quarterly internal report we try to quantify these intangible...
View ArticleDoes a semantic network improve the quality of museum website visits? Some...
Photo by Dan Brickley on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA) It’s been more than three months since we at the Museum of National History launched our new website. And, apart from the usual glitches, it pretty much...
View ArticleThe INNL network – what it is and how it works
Last week we launched our new website. As I wrote last week it’s a connected website. With our website, we launched the INNL network. The INNL network is a semantic network of history and heritage...
View ArticleThe new website and semantic network of the Museum of National History
At last! The new website of the Museum of National History and its related semantic network are live. I’m very proud of the end result and thought I’d share it with our international followers. This...
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