Technology on the Parade

Fat Pipe Conferencing

klallan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:51:46 +0000

Video conferencing

beam speakers in from anywhere on the planet;
attendees can participate, real-time, interactively, from anywhere on the planet;
conferencing can occur over a number of venues concurrently;
pre-conference speaker profiles;
live feeds from speakers uploaded across the web;
virtual service and product displays;
enticing excerpts of past conferences/speakers and venue;
fast links to web based and electronic resources in real time;
virtual field trips;
give participants a virtual presence;
live input from corresponding concurrent conferences across the globe;

Aquarium

klallan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:09:08 +0000

Wi-fi hotspot

Online classroom

Providing follow-up activities and

Interactive labels

Translations

Audio tours

Linking Oceanarium to WMCC for large conferences

Online visitor books

Streaming information / live links to iSite

Reaching out to the community – eg rest homes, hospitals, schools

Film friendly site

Add Aquarium location and teaser information to layar

Expand the experience / story – eg links to SirTrack tracking sharks etc in the ocean

History of the Aquarium

Research links

Kiosk software

Virtual treasure hunt

Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery

klallan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:05:03 +0000

Virtual tours and field trips for an off-site experience.

Display of digital archives and labelling as part of an on-site experience;

Enable people to post their own digital archives, personal photos and diaries, to enhance the existing collection;

Visual diaries of Hawkes Bay personalities;

Multilingual tour facilities, audio and visual;

Audio and digital labelling for hearing and sight inpaired;

Interactive ‘treasure hunt’ using visual and digital display items, onsite and online;

Inclusion of information with regard to the history of the building and site on a visitor LAYAR

utilise as a WI-FI hotspot

Access to specialists and expertise across the globe by teleconference;

Ticket purchase online for HBMAG and Century and entry via phone;

Online events calendar and interactive display snippets;

Digital films in the Century Theatre;

Stream live concerts to the Century Theater from across the globe;

links to other attractions around Napier, future and realtime;

History links from catalogue objects to historic sites across HB;

Taking our catalogue digitally out to resthomes, connecting with people who cannot come to us;

Make our collection available across the nation and around the world;

Moving forward

Andrew — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:32:11 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the energy you brought along to Mondays workshop, I hope it opened your eyes to some of the opportunities new technology provides for your businesses. I’m very conscious of the fact that the workshop was just the beginning of a long process and that we need to get some immediate results to keep building the momentum.

I’ll be scheduling meetings with the teams at each of the connected sites next week, to present and discuss the brainstormed ideas and fill in any background information you require. Neil and I will work through some of the ‘inter-site’ possibilities with Rebecca once she’s on board.

I’ll also be working to remove some of the obstacles we still have in our way – ie internet site blocking, slow internal networks and poor connections at our other sites.

There’s a lot of excitement out in the ICT community around what we’re doing (eg fruitbowl), so there are definitely opportunities for public/private partnerships to move things along quickly.

I’ll soon be entering Monday’s ideas on this site and providing links to some of the technologies presented.

Video diaries

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:18:24 +0000

Remember the video diaries from last year? We could do something like that permanently on our new network.

Touch screens

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:52:48 +0000

These guys are from down the road in Palmerston North. Take a look at the amazing things they’re writing to make use of advances in touch-screen technology.

Just imagine how cool the next generation of information kiosks could be!

Augmented Reality (AR)

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:48:46 +0000

Imagine this … a tourist leaves their cruise ship and strolls along the Rotary pathway. As he walks along, his phone tells him about all the things around him: Cape Kidnappers and how it got it’s name, the Pania Statue and the story behind it, the Museum and what today’s exhibitions are …

Check it out here

Workshop – Agenda

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:28:04 +0000

Monday 16th November, 2-5pm
at the Marineland Education Centre

Agenda

1. Introduction
an explanation of why we’re meeting and some background information to put some context around our discussions.

2. Keynote Speakers
to outline the bigger picture and what cool things are being done elsewhere and to demonstrate the potential of the asset that is now available to us.

3. Workshops
to encourage us to come up with creative ways that we can use technology to meet our business challenges

break into groups and brainstorm some ideas
evaluate and categorise the ideas
share our favourite ideas

4. Discuss what the next steps should be
to discuss how we keep the momentum and to plan how we can get some of the ideas developed and implemented.

5. Drinks and nibbles