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Seb Chan commented on David Milne's blog post 'GLAM/Wiki Trial: Social History Photographs of Early 20th Century Queensland'

This will be an interesting trial! The benefit of Flickr really is the nature of its community - which, whilst diverse, is primarily predisposed with an interest in images and photography. Wikimedia is more a repository which requires the repurpo...

November 17

Lynda Kelly commented on Seb Chan's blog post 'Powerhouse joins the Commons on Flickr'

Just received notification from Liz Holcombe of the Australian War Memorial about a blog post she has done celebrating their first year on Flickr Commons. Hopefully she'll have some tips to share!

November 11

Seb Chan replied to Jonathan Cooper's discussion 'Bulk email service (for e-newsletters)'

Everything costs - even the free stuff. The good thing about paying for bulk email is that it forces you to prioritise database cleanups and the removal of people who don't read your spam. It also starts to engender a mindset that focusses on wha...

November 8

Seb Chan replied to Jonathan Cooper's discussion 'Bulk email service (for e-newsletters)'

We use Campaign Master (http://www.campaignmaster.com.au/) now which is good and can be handled entirely by the marketing team. Campaign Monitor (http://www.campaignmonitor.com/) is very good if you want to have a lot of control over design etc. W...

November 4

Seb Chan replied to Lynda Kelly's discussion '"Repurposing content": Making Web 2.0 easy'

Simple? Far from it. They are hard. Very hard. ;-)

October 30

Seb Chan replied to Tim Hart's discussion 'New Virtual Tours on the Museum Victoria Website'

VRML . . . i think you mean 1998 not 2008. Be interested to see the use figures and dwell times outside the Museum of these tours.

October 5

Seb Chan replied to Lynda Kelly's discussion 'Finding Common Ground between the web and the museum'

#commonground hashtag. But in reality this is a physical meetup for Flickr people - and we are pushing the physical-ness of it. There's even going to be cupcakes with the photos on them in the icing! And other surprises.

October 2

Seb Chan replied to Lynda Kelly's discussion 'Finding Common Ground between the web and the museum'

It isn't a long weekend in every other part of the world! Remember this is a synchronous GLOBAL event . . . . a globally crowd curated event in multiple global locations including one in a ruined church in Sweden! (which definitely trumps Powerho...

October 2

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About Me:

Sebastian Chan is currently the Manager of the Web Services Unit at the Powerhouse Museum. Coming from a background in social policy, journalism and media criticism as well as information technology, he has been building and producing websites and interactive media since the mid 1990s. At the Powerhouse he has been responsible for driving a strong user focus in design, usability and content, as well as expanding the scope and reach of the museum's suite of online projects. In the last financial year his team was responsible for tripling visitation to the Museum's online resources and a large suite of innovative experimental projects. He is known as a cultural sector specialist in social media and Web 2.0 applications, as well as web analytics.

He is a regular speaker in Australia and has also delivered workshops and presentations in the USA, Latin America, Canada, Asia, New Zealand and UK.

His other interests include electronic music and digital art, and he has directed and curated large scale national and international events and festivals, and also produces related media from radio broadcasts to print.

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Commons on Flickr 3 Month Report from Powerhouse

I've finally blogged our 3 month report on the Commons on Flickr.

Its long so make some tea before you sit down and read it. Maybe even break out the Tim Tams.

Posted on July 22, 2008 at 1:04am — 2 Comments

New post over at Fresh & New - Facebook Application analytics

I've done a short profile of a service that gives you access to analytics on which Facebook applications are getting used and which aren't . . . . and by who.

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/06/13/just-how-popular-is-that-facebook-application-artshare-and-steve-art-tagger-and-developer-analytics/

Posted on June 13, 2008 at 1:38pm —

New post on Fresh & New: User experience is all that matters

I've written a new post around user experience, newspapers and museum sites . . . with follow ups to come.

Have a gander.

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/06/06/user-experience-is-all-that-matters-a-reminder-about-content-search-and-users/

Posted on June 7, 2008 at 8:06pm —

Fresh & New - More on augmented reality and museums

Another blog post over at F&N - Mobile augmented animals.

Posted on June 2, 2008 at 6:06pm —

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At 10:00pm on March 29, 2009, Chris Winter said…: Just can't help myself ....

At 10:24pm on November 23, 2008, Incognita Nom de Plume said…: Hey Seb -- is there anywhere I can find a list of your podcasts?

At 3:19pm on August 26, 2008, Angelina Russo said…: Hey Seb
If you're going to conference then I will too!
Hope all is well in anywhere other than cold southern Australia!
Cheers

At 12:12pm on March 7, 2008, Mardi Nowak said…: Hi Seb, I really enjoyed your presentation at the conference on Friday. It was really engaging. I would love to find out more about the collection stuff that you guys are doing, mostly as I've described myself as a 'one woman' gallery and access to our collection and finding out more about it is a big thing for us.

Cheers!!