technology

  • Broadway Needs a Swift Kick in the App

    Broadway Needs a Swift Kick in the App

    It’s time for arts-related mobile apps to get micro, right down to the seat you’re sitting in, and extend the storytelling experience through second screens. Mobile app developers have pushed the boundaries of ways users can extend their experience with entertainment content.

  • HuffPost: Social TV Needs an Upgrade: Your Move, Apple

    HuffPost: Social TV Needs an Upgrade: Your Move, Apple

    It’s time for technology to wow us consumers again. A hashtag in the corner during Glee or awarding a GetGlue badge for watching the latest Pretty Little Liars episode — that’s just social media 101. Audiences are ready to graduate to the advanced class.

  • Separation of Twitter and Facebook in the Age of Obama

    Separation of Twitter and Facebook in the Age of Obama

    Get into a verbal fight on Facebook, and I still have to see you in our elevator the next morning. I’m all for embracing awkward moments, but not when that initial verbal brawl is seen, and judged, by my republican-minded in-laws. It is far easier agreeing to avoid heated political debates with people I love…

  • HuffPost: Smile Broadway! You’re on Instagram

    HuffPost: Smile Broadway! You’re on Instagram

    Facebook is so over. At least, that’s what a college-age coworker told me this summer while discussing arts marketing. The mega social network may be waning with a younger demographic, but a recent Facebook acquisition is growing exponentially.

  • HuffPost: Fighting My Mother’s Cancer With Text Messages

    HuffPost: Fighting My Mother’s Cancer With Text Messages

    My mother calls to tell me she has a fourth type of cancer. I’m pretty sure I would have given my regards to the world after the doctor told me there was even the slightest chance that I could have any type of cancer. My mother, always the fighter.

  • Museum Scientists & Imaging Technologies

    Museum Scientists & Imaging Technologies

    Whether Museum scientists are studying parasites, people, or planets in other solar systems, cutting-edge imaging technologies such as infrared photography, scanning electron microscopes, and CT scanners now make it possible to examine details that were previously unobservable.