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The latest news from the STQRY team
STQRY Sessions with the Glencairn Museum
Last week we sat down with Jahnna Henderson, marketing and public relations manager of the Glencairn Museum to discuss their reopening!
Case Study: The United States Forest Service
How does the US Forest Service connect with their 300 million visitors per year? A portal app powered by STQRY! Hear more from Toby Bloom, National Program Manager of Travel, Tourism, and Interpretation with the USFS.
Our new STQRY
Since founding OnCell in 2006, we have worked hard to evolve and adapt our products to the changing technology and needs of our customers and their visitors. With multiple acquisitions over the last several years – including Authentic, My Tours & STQRY (2018), TourBuddy (2019), CultureSpots (2020) – we decided it was time to reflect on our history, our identity and what our brand represents.
Press Release: OnCell Acquires SaaS Company, CultureSpots
OnCell announced today it has acquired the software company, CultureSpots based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, a respected competitor in the audio guide technology space for cultural institutions.
How To Increase Engagement By Focusing On Enrichment
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, companies in all sectors scrambled to find ways to maintain relationships with their customers while being sensitive to their struggles. If you’re one of the organizations still struggling to find ways to engage with your customers during these trying times (or just looking for a bump in your existing strategies), creating digital experiences is key, and focusing your messaging on enrichment will guarantee success.
How to Repurpose Your Digital Content For Maximum Impact
As our clients navigate the new digital landscape created by COVID-19, many are wondering how to leverage their digital content to create new kinds of relationships with their customers.
Creating a Virtual Visitor Experience
All over the world organizations are facing the difficult decision to temporarily close their doors and ultimately limit access to their collections and content. However, many people are turning to digitalization in an effort to reduce group tours, and reach visitors that can’t physically visit a site.
STQRY Collect - Manawatū Heritage
Palmerston North Libraries and Community Services wanted to replace their existing online collections site with a more modern alternative. Their existing platform had several issues including not being able to link to individual items, not mobile friendly, hard to use, not open to community engagement and not being indexed by Google.
Gettysburg Battlefield GPS Driving Tour
The summer of 2016 has been a hot one along the east coast. One of Pennsylvania’s most visited tourist destinations has been overflowing with tourists and history buffs. Visitors from all over the world want to learn about the historic battlefields and the Civil War. Now, thanks to InSite Gettysburg, a Gettysburg born and bred everything tech tour company, and STQRY visitors can learn about Gettysburg as they drive along in their car with a driving tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield.
Behind the Scenes of the Michener Art Museum - Part 2 of 2
We’ve been soooo looking forward to sharing Part 2 of our Michener Art Museum Client Spotlight Interview with you!
The kids in this video are an absolute delight AND profoundly articulate in describing their experience participating in the Michener’s Youth Audio Tour production project (powered by CultureSpots)
Behind the Scenes of the Michener Art Museum - Part 1 of 2
As you’ll witness in this Client Spotlight Interview with Adrienne Romano, Director of Interpretation and Innovation, and Ruth Anderson, Director of Youth and Family Programs at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, they masterfully turned their mobile audio tour production project into a learning opportunity for kids.
Client Spotlight Interview with Elizabeth Laurent at Girard College
We love visiting our clients on their home turf! It’s always so inspiring and reinvigorating in so many ways — as I’m sure you can imagine.
And it was no different when we had the recent opportunity to visit Girard College, and conduct this Client Spotlight video interview with our friend and early-CultureSpots-adopter Elizabeth Laurent, their Director of Historic Resources.
A conversation with Neysa Page-Lieberman
In today’s final feature video, we’re taking you to the “South Loop” section of Downtown Chicago where we’re visiting Columbia DEPS (Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Student Spaces) at Columbia College Chicago, the largest and most diverse private, nonprofit arts and media college in the nation with more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
A conversation with Jessica Brunecky, CU Art Museum
A conversation with Jessica Brunecky – Director of Marketing and Membership at the CU-Boulder Art Museum – who told us all about a creative collaboration they did with the university’s Museum of Natural History, AND an amazing “Bio Lounge” there where students can hunker down amongst stimulating museum exhibitions
A Conversation With Daisy Mcgowan, Director of the Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado
With the holiday season rapidly approaching, we invite you to pull yourself away for just a few moments and join us for an inspiring sojourn to the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs where we’ll be talking with Daisy McGowan, Director of the Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA).
Our Conversation with Lynn Berkowitz at The Barnes Foundation
Today’s video blog is a very special one for many reasons.
First and foremost, to do this video interview, we got to visit the awe-inspiring Barnes Foundation and sit down with their Family and Community Programs Manager, Lynn Berkowitz who is an absolute delight to know and share time with.