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This year PodCamp Philly and SearchCamp Philly teamed up to take over the newly built Tuttleman Learning Center at Temple University for an entire weekend dedicated to all things New Media. Here are some of the sessions that really packed a punch – and my key takeaways:
Maurice Sendak celebrates his 80th year tonight at the 92nd Street Y in New York, so there’s been lots of reflections lately on his life and work - here’s ours:
The Night Kitchen Interactive-designed website for Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia launched today. The site allows visitors to donate online, buy tickets to the annual fundraiser, and discover key tips on how to help young children build a lifetime love of reading. “In addition to offering easy tips for building literacy-rich childhoods, our website will help us target key supporters so that Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia can continue to build on its successes,” said Kristen Kucharczuk, the Associate Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Greater Philadelphia in ROR GP’s announcement (PDF) of the launch. The website was the result of a grant from The 25th Century Foundation.
The Delaware Valley Innovation Network has selected Night Kitchen Interactive to create a website and online community that will serve as a key resource for the life science industry in the tri-state area. In addition to being an online resource, the website will allow users to blog, create profiles, join discussions and share resources to help build more collaboration across the industry’s multiple sectors and varied stakeholders.
The Jewish Publication Society has selected Night Kitchen Interactive to create an interactive online timeline to showcase its 120-year history. The timeline will help JPS portray its significant role in enhancing Jewish culture and learning and its vision, while relaying its vision for the future.
Client: Parrish Art Museum
Project: East End Stories
Designed for the Parrish Art Museum, East End Stories invites visitors to explore the connections between the art, artwork, and locations of the storied East End artists’ community. By integrating an innovative mapping feature, Night Kitchen Interactive created an engaging and informative experience that encourages exploration of over 1600 images.
What makes Minnesota, Minnesota? This not is a question many of us from places beyond the North Star State ask ourselves (at least not regularly), but it did serve as the catalyst for MN150, an exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society that presents 150 people, events, and inventions that have changed Minnesota. The exhibit is a fantastic example of how visitor-contributed content can successfully drive an exhibition – and how Web 2.0 can help make it all happen.
Critical mass. It’s the existence of sufficient participation in something (an event, for example, or a campaign) for it to become self-sustaining. Political campaigns, new technologies, and product launches all depend on it to help build momentum and fuel growth. So why should museums with visitor-contributed projects think about critical mass?
Featuring a complete redesign and reorganization by Night Kitchen Interactive, The National Constitution Center has launched its new website. After a thorough overhaul of the site’s home page, Night Kitchen Interactive organized the entire website to convey the NCC as a historic destination with a thoroughly modern, interactive visitor experience. The new, streamlined design targets four key audiences with “must see” message points and ensures visitors can find the information they need, quickly and easily.
The website redesign is just one of Night Kitchen Interactive’s projects with the National Constitution Center. Additional projects include the Sieze The Vote! online game, the award-wining interactive exhibit Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads, the Centuries of Citizenship online exhibit, and the wiki-based Constitution Day website.
The Parrish Art Museum has launched East End Stories, a Night Kitchen Interactive-designed online exhibit that captures the art and stories of the historic Long Island East End artists’ community. To enhance the online tours of over 1600 images, Night Kitchen incorporated an innovative mapping feature to help visitors discover connections between the locations, artists, and their artwork. The result is a dynamic, informative, and captivating presentation of the people, the art, and events of this storied community.
