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Submit Your Projects for the Horizon Report > 2012 Museum Edition!
We are pleased to announce that the voting for the NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Museum Edition has been completed and the topics for this year's report have been chosen by the 2012 Horizon Project Museum Advisory Board. The next step is to ask YOU to help us to find some great examples of projects in the six areas selected. We're trying to cast a wide net as we look for great examples of museums using or experimenting with these technologies in practice.
We are interested in learning about any kind innovative projects happening at your museum in any of the six areas listed below. (Download the NMC Horizon Project Preview > 2012 Museum Edition for more details.) Our goal is to help readers understand the potential impact of these technologies and their applications on museum education and interpretation.
Here are the six areas identified for this year's report -- and more information, including a description of each topic, is provided in the Preview:
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
* Mobiles Apps
* Social Media
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
* Augmented Reality
* Open Content and Alternative Licensing
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
* The Internet of Things
* Natural User Interfaces
The Time-to-Adoption Horizon indicates how long the Advisory Board feels it will be until a significant number of museums are providing or using each of these technologies or approaches broadly. Of special interest are any activities that have a significant web presence so that a URL might be included in the report.
How to Participate
If you know of examples we could include, please use the brief web form at go.nmc.org/projects to tell us about them. We ask for a title, a URL, and a one- or two-sentence description; you also will need to select which of the six topics your example falls under. The process takes about two minutes.
We hope to have your examples by Wednesday, November 14, but no matter what, we'd love to hear about what you are doing! All we really need is a sentence of description and a URL -- we'll do the rest.
We look forward to hearing from you with some great examples!
The NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Museum Edition is a co-production with MIDEA, made possible by the generous support of the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation.
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