Speaker: Laura Mann
April 13-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, USA

Speakers: Biography

Laura Mann

Business Development Director
Mediatrope Interactive
207 Powell Street #300
San Francisco CA
94102 USA
http://www.mediatrope.com

Laura has worked in museum technology and interpretation for forteen years. Since 2003, she has served as Business Development Director at Mediatrope Interactive, a developer of Web sites, kiosks and interactives for museums. From 1996 through 2002, Laura led the sales and marketing team at Antenna Audio.

Laura serves on the Board of Cultural Connections, an organization of museum professionals in Northern California. She has delivered papers to the Western Museums Association and the American Association of Museums. Laura holds a B.A. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania and she was a Ph.D. Mellon Fellow in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Laura will present Open Source Collaboration: New Models for Technology Development in the Museum Community. [Paper]