Jes Koepfler's Blog

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Participants: Brian Kelly: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk, ukwebfocus.wordpress.com: Frank Kresin: frank@waag.org, Jan Carmichael: carmichael.jan@gmail.com, Vivian Ducat, Maria van Zeller: mvanzeller@sistemasfuturo.pt, Jes Koepfler: koepfler@ilinet.org

Acronyms that were flying around:

As a *budding* young professional in this field, I've noticed a particular concept that is tossed around here and elsewhere in the field, and that is: once this last generation of conservatives literally dies out of the museum, we will all accept technology, we won't have to fight for our websites anymore--our curators will accept it too. This concept comes out in different situations. For example, an audience member says in response to a discussion on social media that his work at the history museum does not reach out to that kind of audience, so this model won't work for him. The response is that "well that won't always be the case, because eventually those people will go away and your new audience [of the same demographic] will be tech savvy."

Really?