20th Annual Muse Awards Competition

Information from AAM regarding the "20th Annual Muse Awards Competition". AAM Media and Technology Committee give this award to recognize outstanding achievement in museum media. The information is as follows:

"The 2008 Muse Awards competition received nearly 200 applications from a wide variety of museums in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Entries included audio, cell phone and interactive handheld tours, interactive kiosks and multimedia installations, podcasts, blogs, games, websites, online collection and image databases, videos and e-mail marketing campaigns. This year we are expecting another exciting round of projects that reflect innovation in the museum media community.

We will accept online applications from museums and producers on the AAM Media and Technology website from Dec. 1, 2008, to Jan. 31, 2009. The cost is $25 per entry.

Visit www.mediaandtechnology.org to enter your project. If you have any questions, please contact us via muse@mediaandtechnology.org."

Thanks for Making our First Event a Success!

I would like to thank everyone that came out on Thursday for our first Seattle EMP event! We had a great turnout of about 15-20 people who braved a very cold and rainy night to join the group. I had a great time meeting all of you and learning more about you!

After getting your feedback on Thursday, it seems it would be best to have these events quarterly, which would put our next gathering sometime in February or March. I've created a topic thread on our Facebook group page as a place to put any comments or suggestions you might have for our next event. You can also leave your feedback here on the blog as a comment.

Thanks again to everyone who was able to make it! To those of you that were unable to make it this time, your presence was missed and we hope to see you at the next one!