The Indianapolis Museum of Art software development team has blogged some stats about an interactive installed in their Asian galleries, including some details about how and where it's touched. intriguing how, as Charlie Moad says, the heat map shows that people wanted to use the interface in the inverse way from how it was designed: they wanted to use the geographical map to find the work, not plot the work on the map.

our paradigms are shifting: "it’s google maps fault"

Recently we've been helping editors Ross Parry and Paul Marty put together a special issue of Museum Management and Curatorship containing articles from ICHIM07. Our introduction (http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/MMC-ichim07-intro.html) to the issue, which will contain five articles focused on organizations and changes created by multimedia online, looks back at 16 years of ICHIM history, locating today's discussions in some of the earliest themes from the past.

One of the key positions in the SFMOMA IET team has just opened up: the Program Manager, IET. Read on for details.

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Peter Samis - Associate Curator, Interpretation

IDEA, the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement, just released “Finding Information: Factors that improve online experiences,” which reports the findings of a study that the California-based nonprofit organization conducted recently.

I flew into Houston, Texas yesterday for the 21st Annual Visitor Studies Association conference. This is my first time in Space City, as well as the Lone Star State, for that matter. This morning, I presented a workshop with Jes Koepfler, a fellow Museum Studies grad and my “partner in crime” on the Mischief & Malice: Crime in the Museum online exhibition project (we co-managed this project put together by the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies Class of 2008 using a wiki). Appropriately, we presented Using Wikis for Project Management.

If you attended the ICHIM07 Conference Reception, you may remember seeing a giant, green, ear-shaped, metal sign with a mobile phone number and the words “hear you are” stamped on it in the atrium of the MaRS Collaboration Centre in Toronto. [murmur], a documentary oral history project, created the distinct marker.