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Flickr uploads continue

The San Diego Air and Space museum now has more than 85,000 images on their flickr archive: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/sets/ including pictures of Aircraft Carriers and stunt pilots!

BPOC launches iPhone application

We now have iPhone application for Balboa Park is now available in Apple’s iTunes store. The application is designed to help visitors explore Balboa Parks 1,200 acres of museums, performing arts venues, gardens, restaurants, and other attractions.

Wireless in the Park

BPOC has just put the finishing touches on a pilot public wireless roll out in Balboa Park. The map below shows the areas that are coved by the service which museums are already starting to expand on.

40 years of collecting reptiles by Dr. Rattlesnake digitized

Laurence M. Klauber (also known as Dr. Rattlesnake) put San Diego on the map in the field of herpetology. He collected and donated 36,000 reptile and amphibian specimens to the San Diego Natural History Museum, including the most comprehensive collection of rattlesnakes in the world.
BPOC Launches 7 sites in last 12 months

As we proceed with our migration of Park institutions to Drupal we have been busy converting sites... and have 7 launched this year. We should have another out in a week or so. In reverse order here they are:
San Diego Museum of Art
Mingei International Museum
Sneak Preview of the forthcoming BPOC iPhone App

As some of you know we are working on an iPhone App for the Park... thought I would share some screen shots:
New BPOC Drupal Calendar Alpha Release coming

Our new Caledar for creating complex repeat date scenarios and that aggregates traffic from member sites to the main park site will be in alpha release next week... looking forward to that. Have to come up with a name for it now:)
Posted 5000 more images to Flickr for SDASM

We posted 5000 more images to Flickr for the San Diego Air and Space Museum... bringing the total to more than 70K. The most recent posts where of famous people in aviation.

Flickr stats for SDASM Rock!

We posted 64,000 San Diego Air and Space Museum images on flickr and received 202,499 views in 25 days vs 59,807 page views for their main site... Also seeing 5% of traffic on the main site now attributable to Flickr, higher than Yahoo or Bing! I think thats proof that social media works.

BPOC Director Co-presents session at AAM

BPOC Director Co-presents with the Getty, MoMA and the Newseum in a virtual and physical AAM session called "Innovative Technology: Breaking down barriers between the physical and virtual museum experience"
AAM Annual Meeting Virtual Conference 2010
Slides online

BPOC presents 3 papers at MW2010

"A Walk in the Park: The Balboa Park Online Collaborative First Year Report"
Abstract

Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and technology in the Museum

We had great attendance at our at our Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and technology in the Museum seminar that concluded yesterday (http://www.bpoc.org/mobile ) this was a two-day seminar is for museum professionals who want to explore the value of mobile devices and portable computing for their institutions, patrons and learners with

BPOC has received a Google Grant

Had some exciting news come in this afternoon… BPOC has received a Google Grant worth $120,000 per year in free advertising via Google AdWords (http://www.google.com/adwords) and free Google Checkout donation processing. We will be setting this up over the next few weeks and will be working with interested organizations to structure advertising campaigns.
New content editor and writer for Balboapark.org

I’d like to welcome Erin Chambers Smith to the BPOC team.

Make something happen

Posted on the Westmuse Blog on July 14, 2009: Make something happen

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