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Blog Posts Across Museum 3.0

Learning from our Twitter xperiment

If you've been following my other post called Project AMEP you'll know that we are trying out some Web 2.0 tools for one of our large projects here. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes (AMEP) are Australia's premier science awards, culminating in a gala dinner for over 900 assorted VIPS and science-types. We wanted to do live updates of winners and other assorted tidbits from the dinner and decided to use a Tw… Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on August 20, 2008 at 12:00pm — 8 Comments

Science in the world of Web 2.0

Two leading authors have provided intriguing insights into the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on science. You can read about them at http://nlablog.wordpress.com Continue

Posted by Angelina Russo on August 18, 2008 at 3:10pm — 1 Comment

Upcoming M&GSQ Professional Development Event: September 2008

Creative Uses of the Collection is a Museum & Gallery Services Queensland Seminar in partnership with The University of Queensland Art Museum and The University of Queensland’s Museum Studies program (School of English, Media Studies and Art History) Date: Thursday 11 September 2.00pm - 4.30pm (drinks 4.30pm - 5.30pm) Venue: University of Queensland Art Museum, University Drive, St Lucia Cost: $45 (inc GST) - full registration fee $35 (inc GST) - concession registration fee for MAQ and RGAQ… Continue

Posted by Robert on July 24, 2008 at 1:09pm — 1 Comment

Social Media as an agent of peace

A review of an interesting talk I saw at the EVA Conference in London yesterday. See http://nlablog.wordpress.com Continue

Posted by Angelina Russo on July 23, 2008 at 7:05pm — No Comments

Art conference in Brisbane

CALL FOR PAPERS: AAANZ 2008 CONFERENCE QUEENSLAND COLLEGE OF ART, GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY and QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY and GALLERY OF MODERN ART BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA 4-6 December, 2008 AAANZ: Alpha Alpha Alpha November Zulu The 2008 Art Association of Australia and New Zealand conference aims to encourage papers from a broad disciplinary base and as part of this to recall the earlier involvement of the design professions in the Association and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. This is par… Continue

Posted by Robert on July 22, 2008 at 7:38pm — No Comments

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. Continue

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

How we display our images online

I don't think we do it that well. Have a read of this blog post about some images I saw yesterday from the TDF. Continue

Posted by Mal Booth on July 18, 2008 at 12:55pm — No Comments

Project AMEP

Today we begin an adventure. I'm taking on board Mal's idea of "touring the web", building on Nina's work about how much time does Web 2.0 take and my own reflections in my paper Museum 3.0, organisational change and inf… Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on July 10, 2008 at 4:34pm — 15 Comments

Ken Hamma from the Getty on the cost of technology

I listened to this "parcast" from OCLC today. I think it is a well spent 20 minutes. It is very recent interview between Günter Waibel and Ken Hamma, the retiring Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives of the J. Paul Getty Trust. It is easy to follow, but touches on how the progress of information technology has impacted on the library, archive and museum world and also what Ken believes is the non-proprietary way forward (using open source technology). He also touches on d… Continue

Posted by Mal Booth on July 8, 2008 at 11:49am — 11 Comments

Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Here's the list of Australia's top web apps compiled by Ross Dawson - note that our own Seb and Powerhouse makes the list! While it makes interesting reading, a long list of apps without any context or grouping is pretty unhelpful in my view. I tried to go on his blog to add this but couldn't work out how. Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on June 20, 2008 at 1:02pm — 1 Comment

Data, data everywhere... yet, no audience insight

Data, data everywhere... yet, no audience insight Ron Layne / Fuel4Arts This paper promotes the value of data for strategic marketing and outlines some of the main issues and challenges for arts organisations around collecting, analysing and managing audience data. It also provides a brief overview of data collection methods and Vital Statistics, a program developed and offered by Purple Seven in the UK which will be rolled out across Australia and New Zealand over the next three… Continue

Posted by John Tann on June 17, 2008 at 2:27pm — No 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/ Continue

Posted by Seb Chan on June 13, 2008 at 1:38pm — No Comments

The Bank of Common Knowledge

The always great We Make Money Not Art just introduced me to the the Bank of Common Knowledge. A fantastic project in distributed thinking and collaborative public participation. From WMMNA's write-up: Inspired by an Internet shaped by the collective effort of thousands of distributed agents who publicly shared their knowledge to achieve a common goal, the BCK project is based on the firm belief that creating, sharing, transmitting and exchanging knowledge in the public sphere is a key eleme… Continue

Posted by Christopher Edwards on June 13, 2008 at 10:22am — No Comments

at the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden, part 3

I had to miss Wednesday, the last day of the conference, but had an action-packed final day myself on Tuesday. The first presentation I saw was on museum learning and virtual worlds. I felt the presenter (Lea Kuznik, from the University of Ljubljana) could have taken time to link her theoretical framework (Gogola's experiential pedagogy and 'peak experiences') to her overview of virtual worlds. I think it could have been a fascinating paper about what a 'peak experience' might be in such a digi… Continue

Posted by jen on June 13, 2008 at 4:49am — 1 Comment

at the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden, part 2

I think today was about the personal for me. It started with a really nice chat over breakfast about people's personal attachment to museums and museum spaces - I shared a story from one of our recent NMOLP research reports with the president of ICOM - eep! - which probably got me thinking along these lines to begin with. Then I went to Marcus Wood's keynote. He gave a moving and complex talk about museum narratives of the mass trauma of slavery, and their focus on the wounded slave body and in… Continue

Posted by jen on June 10, 2008 at 3:20am — No Comments

at the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden, part 1

At Lynda's suggestion, I thought I'd make a few notes here for those unlucky enough not to be in glorious Leiden at the first International Conference on the Inclusive Museum.

First, let me say that if it were possible to subsist entirely on Dutch pancakes, I would do it.… Continue

Posted by jen on June 9, 2008 at 6:15am — 1 Comment

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/ Continue

Posted by Seb Chan on June 7, 2008 at 8:06pm — No Comments

Paper Worth Reading: Government Data and the Invisible Hand

David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller and Edward Felten have a great paper (pre-publish preview) at Yale Journal of Law & Technology challenging the mainstream thinking regarding role of IT in Government Services. I gave a talk last y… Continue

Posted by Shoaib Burq on June 6, 2008 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Fresh & New - More on augmented reality and museums

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

Posted by Seb Chan on June 2, 2008 at 6:06pm — No Comments

When ads become interesting

Tired of the incessant flash flash of ads online? Perhaps the google adsense and featured ads are just plain ugly? Here’s what you can do. Install firefox Go to http://add-art.org Download the extension. Subscribe to a filter list. Now watch the ads disappear in favour of beautiful artworks. I may just have to use more sites with advertising now. Continue

Posted by Renae Mason on May 29, 2008 at 3:05pm — 2 Comments

Some future trends for the Internet and museums

I was part of a panel at a seminar - "Collections and the Web: Audiences, Content and Technologies" - organised by CAN (Collections Australia Network) on Tuesday, 27 May: "Future Trends". I began with a short presentation in which I attempted to plot a number of future possibilities in terms of probability and desirability:

Spam to increase (almost certain), which may lead to...
The total collapse of email, as we now kno

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Posted by Jonathan Cooper on May 29, 2008 at 12:00pm — 10 Comments

Google Android & Some Killer Apps

I'm a tad bit late to the party when it comes to mobile phone applications. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that most Australians are in the same camp. A report over at The Australian indicates that, "only 33 per cent of Australians had used their phone to surf the mobile internet, send messages and emails or take photographs." I did read somewhere else recently (but have unfortunately lost the reference) that th… Continue

Posted by Renae Mason on May 28, 2008 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

New at Fresh & New - Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and 'architectures of participation'

I've just posted a long and slightly rambling (as usual) reflection on the activities of the past few weeks both virtual and physical. I talk about a few things I've been at recently - Museum Australia's Museum Futures, a State Library reference librarians conference - and some things I've been reading. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.… Continue

Posted by Seb Chan on May 28, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

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Posted by Pieronymus on May 21, 2008 at 10:47am — No Comments

Futures Forum - blog updates

Over at Social Media in Museums blog, I've uploaded notes on the two day conference! Read it here! http://nlablog.wordpress.com/ Continue

Posted by Angelina Russo on May 20, 2008 at 1:36pm — No Comments

Arts and Humanities Research Council collaborative doctoral award: the internet and the archive

This is a call for applications for a PhD studentship at the University of Edinburgh: co-supervised by Sian Bayne, the principal investigator on the National Museums Online Learning Project research strand. School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), UK This studentship, fully funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, with additional funding from the collaborating partner, will support three years… Continue

Posted by jen on May 16, 2008 at 2:39am — No Comments

Inclusive Museum conference, Leiden

I'm working on a paper for the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden in June. The paper will focus on inclusive online museum learning, and the National Museums Online Learning Project in particular. It's structured around four key concepts: reach, relevance, relationship and recontextualisation, and touches on themes of the digital vs physical museum, the shift in museum learning from a focus on objects to a focus on users, what 'quality' means in online learning, tensions in schools between cr… Continue

Posted by jen on May 16, 2008 at 2:15am — No Comments

New blog post on Fresh & New - Commons on Flickr update

See over at http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/05/06/commons-on-flickr-one-month-later/ for the latest update on the Powerhouse in the Commons. Continue

Posted by Seb Chan on May 6, 2008 at 11:39pm — 1 Comment

New interview up at Fresh & New - AWM on collection-oriented blogging

I've done and posted a huge interview with the Australian War Memorial's Mal Booth, Liz Holcombe and Adam Bell over at Fresh & New. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/05/06/rich-collection-oriented-curator-blogging-an-interview-with-the-australian-war-memorial/ Excerpt - "I think the flexibility and simplicit… Continue

Posted by Seb Chan on May 6, 2008 at 2:00am — 1 Comment

Museums and the Web 2008

It's great to see the number of new members on this site! I've set up a group called Enaging with Social Media in Musuems. You can link to it from the Groups section of this site. Also, I'm blogging about the conference at http://nlablog.wordpress.com. It would be great to hear your impressions of the conference! Continue

Posted by Angelina Russo on April 11, 2008 at 11:37pm — 2 Comments

Museums and Web 2008 Conference

Several of us ning'rs are at this conference. I'm blogging my impressions on the Audience Research blog and Seb will be blogging on fresh+new(er). Going well so far! Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on April 11, 2008 at 5:36am — 11 Comments

Powerhouse joins the Commons on Flickr

Yes . . . we're the first museum to have joined the Commons on Flickr. I've blogged about what we did, why and how over at fresh & new. You might be wondering why this is so different from having a 'normal' Flickr account . . . . there are two key differences, firstly the normal T&C for Flickr (and mo… Continue

Posted by Seb Chan on April 8, 2008 at 8:19am — 3 Comments

National Archives' first use of Flickr

National Archives of Australia's April Find of the Month uses Flickr to create and embed a slideshow of an album of photographs from Gallipoli in 1915. It is a better way of viewing the album than our collection database RecordSearch currently provides – there, you can only get to each page via each (separate) item description page... Continue

Posted by Cath on April 7, 2008 at 1:43pm — No Comments

How many social networking sites do you need to be part of??

Been thinking lots about this quite a bit lately as I drown, pleasantly, in my online world. There's a group on Facebook called, appropriately, Museums on Facebook which, at last look, has 241 members. They are now having a discussion about the value of Facebook for museums (which staff at the Australian Museum also had a few weeks ago at our Facebook Friday event). Here's the post I added if anyone's interested: STARTS I think to d… Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on April 6, 2008 at 10:18am — 2 Comments

Politics of cultural programming in public spaces

Rob Gehl from George Mason University is co-editing a book tentatively titled The politics of cultural programming in public spaces. Sounds good – see the call for papers. Abstracts are due by 21 April. Continue

Posted by Cath on April 5, 2008 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Intercom Conference 2008

ICOM's Management Committee have recently launched the Intercom Conference 2008, to be held in Rotorua, New Zealand. http://www.intercom2008.co.nz/index.html This year's theme is 'Museums, tourism and the visitor experience'. While the conference papers don't seem to be refereed, it does look like an interesting conference. Continue

Posted by Angelina Russo on April 5, 2008 at 6:14am — No Comments

Seminar 28 April 2008: Countering Prejudice: activism and agency in the museum

The Centre for Cultural Research (UWS) and the Australian Museum present a seminar by Dr Richard Sandell, University of Leicester When? Monday 28th April, 3-5pm Where? Australian Museum Theatrette, 6 College Street (please enter via William Street) Abstract Research in recent years has highlighted the constitutive or generative capacities of museums – their potenti… Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on April 2, 2008 at 5:09pm — No Comments

Museum reboots historical records with email archive

Here's an interesting idea - archiving all those embarassing and interesting emails you've kept along the way. To contribute go to the emailaustralia project website. Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on April 1, 2008 at 8:05am — No Comments

10 points of HOW TO MAKE FUN AND ENGAGING SUMMATIVE EVALUATION TOOLS

HOW TO MAKE FUN AND ENGAGING SUMMATIVE EVALUATION TOOLS? > These 10 points came across my thoughts while doing my research writing. My research is aiming at enhancing the way of gathering visitors' feedback. In creating a new summative evaluation tool I suggest that the tool must offer the aspect of: 1) Designed for users (museum visitors) 2) Fun 3) Engaging 4) Usable/ Functional - easy to use 5) Beautiful in appearance - high in aesthetic values 6) Give pleasant experience to users - non-s… Continue

Posted by Lily on March 27, 2008 at 11:39am — No Comments

Does social networking = notworking??

This may help answer this question (via Seb Chan). STARTS Ross Dawson on internet filtering and blocking of Facebook - Companies that close networking doors jeopardize their future There has been extensive coverage in the Australian media today [August 20, 2007] about a press release from internet filtering company SurfControl, in which they make up a spurious fi… Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on March 13, 2008 at 6:41pm — 5 Comments

Inclusive Museum Conference

People might be interested in this call for papers and conference. Web 2.0 or 3.0 is certainly a way to make museums more inclusive! Note t hat the 2009 conference will be in Brisbane. CONFERENCE ON THE INCLUSIVE MUSEUM National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8-11 June 2008 http://www.Museum-Conference.com At this time of fundamental social change, this Conference will address the question of the role of the museum, both as a creature of that change, and also as an agent of chan… Continue

Posted by Annabel on March 10, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the Internet

The 2008 IMLS study is now available. I quote from Seb Chan's email: "There are some interesting (and unsurprising) findings... "Researchers have completed the “IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the Internet,” a study that delves into the use of libraries, museums and the Internet. The study concludes that “the amount of use of the Internet is positively correlated with the number of in-person visits to museums and has a po… Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on March 7, 2008 at 11:12am — No Comments

Museum blogs

Came across the Town Hall Gallery blog from one of our new members, Mardi. It is a great example of an interesting blog and an easy way to keep people updated about their activities. For those of you who didn't know, there is a listing of many museum blogs at Museum blogs.org Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on March 7, 2008 at 9:25am — 1 Comment

Welcome all members

Thanks to all 36 of you who have now joined up since I created this group only 2 days ago! Hope you find this group useful and enjoyable. I am new at this so there may be some early glitches. Have changed the sign up so you don;t have to add your relationship status as I only just figured that out :) This network is for you - so feel free to post, blog, comment, create your own groups, upload fotos and so on. By becoming involved the Museum 3.0 network will prosper. Thanks again, Continue

Posted by Lynda Kelly on March 4, 2008 at 3:02pm — No Comments