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  1. Want to join @mpedson on SI committee to re-envision Arts & Industries Building. [Green with envy.]
  2. Hard fact: "We're competing with everyone" @mpedson
  3. We learned that lesson long ago @chnm. We didn't have a brand so couldn't rest on it. Our solution: lots of old fashioned outreach leg work.
  4. Lesson: Can't fall back on a "good" brand such as "George Washington" and "Mount Vernon"
  5. Smithsonian brand is just above Fritos brand and just below the NHL brand according to battle brands (anyone have link?) via @mpedson
  6. Enchantedlearning.com has greater Alexa reach than si.edu ... are we getting bang for our 1.1B bucks?
  7. Google search brings up unexpected rivals for SI, according to @mpedson: Wikipedia, Ocean.com, Discoveryeducation.com, etc.
  8. .@mpedson is getting started on overview of SI 2.0 ... to be followed by pointed critique of Mount Vernon tech strategy.
  9. @sleonchnm Will do ... if I have bars. Cell reception pretty bad out there. Will give you the high points tomorrow in any case.
  10. En route to Mount Vernon to talk tech strategy with @mpedson and other good people.
  11. RT @deanreh IMLS-funded iSchool-Digital Humanities collaboration and training project now on twitter http://cli.gs/5J9U1
  12. RT @stevelawson Memo to self: with professional presentations, it's not as interesting *what* you did as it is *how* you did it.
  13. Sitting at Starbucks in Tenleytown. Mayor Fenty a few tables over with his kids.
  14. RT @barbarahui Obama's student loan plan would end the role of banks in federal student loans: http://bit.ly/ybML4
  15. @markstoneman Indeed. But at least MS never made you buy their hardware...
  16. Museums, other cultural institions need to do what they can to encourage competition/innovation by adopting cross-platform mobile solutions.
  17. That's the good news. The bad news is Apple's continued aggressive steps to control mobile computing space.
  18. Apple patenting "ID App": visual object recognition software for iPhone. Obvious applications for museums. http://is.gd/1tLuN
  19. @Musebrarian Ah, right. Twitter linking seems to work pretty well. EN def. rocks.
  20. @Musebrarian but becuase image processing is done on server side, there is definitely a delay, which is what you may be experience.