Online Facilities
The museum was the first UK museum to introduce a WAPsite for mobile phones, including a WAPwalk, a guided canal towpath walk using the WAPsite. It was one of London's first museums to become a Wi-Fi hotspot. In September 2007 it became the first UK museum to offer a podcast audio tour of its permanent exhibitions, for the visitor to download in advance and play on his/her own MP3 player. A towpath walking tour is also offered in the same MP3 format. In 2010 oral history recordings were made available online, being edited longer extracts from the museum's collection or reminiscences about life in the working days of the canals. In 2011 the WAPsite had become obsolete and a new smartphone-friendly site was introduced using the .mobi domain name, although the WAPsite was retained for the small number of users still browsing with earlier handsets. In 2011 the museum embraced social networking with a presence and regular activity on Facebook and Twitter, and Foursquare. In 2012 a Google Plus page was started. In 2012 a multimedia smartphone guide was developed using the platform provided by OOKL.
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