According to the Google Checkout Blog, the big G have just launched Google Checkout for Non-Profits – with no charges at all either per-transaction or percentage until at least the end of 2008. So far though, this looks like it’s just for US based NFP’s. I’ll have a poke about the infosuperhighweb and see if… [Read more…]
September 27, 2007
UPDATE 08/10/07: Launchball went live again on Friday 5th Oct.. Well, I had a suspicion that Launchball might turn out to be pretty successful… Unfortunately the guys at the Science Museum tell me that having struggled all day trying to get it to stay live they’ve had to temporarily remove it following a huge response… [Read more…]
September 26, 2007
As everyone knows, terrible mistakes are often made in IT procurement. Anyone who has ever tried to apply some holistic thinking to institutional systems (“hey, let’s publish X from legacy database Y on the web!”) will have come across this. The closer you delve into data stores the more grim the story seems to become.… [Read more…]
September 24, 2007
I said in my last post that I’d be blogging about the new Launchpad interactive pretty soon. So here it is – the arrival of Launchball – the culmination of a huge amount of hard work by those fabulous fellows at the Science Museum, stunning Flash and visual stuff by digital marvels Preloaded and some… [Read more…]
September 23, 2007
The 14th September 2007 marked the end of an era, for me anyway. I’ve been at NMSI, the National Museum of Science and Industry, for just over 7 years, and that was my last day. I move on, as anyone does from a job they’ve lived and loved for that length of time, with a… [Read more…]
September 10, 2007
Richard MacManus is doing a Read/Write Web feature series on NFP’s which looks like it’s going to be interesting. He’s going to focus on how Not for Profits use the web and the various tools available. In his first post he cites a 2004 article from Wired which I haven’t seen before which suggests that… [Read more…]
September 5, 2007
As some of you might remember, I put together www.museumcollections.org.uk a while back to demonstrate what could be done for collections searching with next to no cash (a fiver to register a domain), time (20 mins, tops) or effort (cut and paste). Underneath this is Google coop, an implementation of the big G’s search engine… [Read more…]
September 1, 2007
Before I get going, a quick apology for being a little bit slack on the Electronic Museum blog recently. The run-up and early arrival of young Rohan Ellis on Tuesday 28th, plus the fact that I’m leaving my job mid-September are both eating into the free time I rely on for browing and writing…I’ll be… [Read more…]
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