The Purposeful Techie

Awhile back, I posted about ways to create online exhibits.  There are some new entries, and I have some additional comments, so it’s time for an update.
One new option is Open Museum. Right now, curating exhibits there is free, although that should change when they reach their beta phase.  (See the business faq.)  In the [...]

What Not to Retweet
A local children’s museum is using a service like Auto Retweet (or something similar) to automatically retweet just about everything posted to Twitter by anyone involving the words “children” and “museum.” Never mind the fact that most of these tweets are completely inane and totally irrelevant to the retweeting museum in particular [...]

These all come from actual museum websites I’ve been browsing this morning:

Music that plays automatically.  Double-plus negative points for being horribly twangy.
Navigational buttons that are in flash only.  Plus 1 for having text links of the same at the bottom, minus 1 for not repeating them on subsequent pages, minus 1 for the flash not [...]

One easy way to build an online store simply uses Paypal or Google Checkout, and a table you create yourself with all of your merchandise.
This method, of course, is not much fun.  It’s labor intensive, and you do have to be well versed in HTML to make it happen (or else cozy with your editor).  [...]