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The Business of Design at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

I've spent the morning at the Times Warner Center in New York at an event organised by the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum - The Business of Design. Leading designers and thinkers discuss how to implement design in business. You can view the post at http:www.nlablog.wordpress.com Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on October 21, 2009 at 10:59am — No Comments

Feeling glum after GLAM-WIKI

Thoughts on the conference objectives and calls for discussion! http://nlablog.wordpress.com Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on August 10, 2009 at 2:10pm — 3 Comments

The Museum of 21st Century

What happens when you get two of the most powerful museum directors in the UK on the same stage? It was described as a cultural 'Heat' Pacino and DeNiro there together for the first time... In a particularly British way, they held us captive for 1 1/2 hours while they discussed the future of the museum. You can read about it here! Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on July 8, 2009 at 7:01pm — 2 Comments

Focus on Experience!

Here at Museums and the Web, Maxwell Anderson reminds us that the museum experience rather than collection, should be central to our thoughts and initiatives, both virtual and physical. You can read more about the morning session at http://nlablog.wordpress.com. I'm trialling blog responses via twitter and would appreciate your thoughts. My tag is @artech05 Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on April 17, 2009 at 6:00am — 9 Comments

What do the director of a science centre and the general manager of marketing from the nation's largest sporting body have in common?

Those of you who were able to join us at the Transformations conference last week may well be able to answer this without reading summary of the Culture 2.0 session at http://nlablog.wordpress.com Regardless, I invite you to read through the summaries of the first session of the conference, the Culture 2.0 discussion where Professor Graham Durant (Questacon) and Dr Colin McLeod (AFL) provided entertaining and thought-provoking discussions of their take on transformations in cultural communicati… Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on March 11, 2009 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Museumsuck.com - what do we say to that?

Over at http://nlablog.wordpress.com I've had a better look at Museumsuck.com - and I found this!

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Added by Angelina Russo on February 26, 2009 at 11:30am — 5 Comments

How will the economic crisis affect museums?

The New York Times printed this article just recently. It describes some of the impact of the economic downturn on museums. I wonder what will happen in Australia and New Zealand. While we don't rely so heavily on donors, we can assume that government spending may shift focus for a while and that museums may need to contend with smaller budgets. I recently heard… Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on October 23, 2008 at 9:00pm — 3 Comments

TePapa leads the way!

Last week I had the privilege of viewing two new exhibitions at TePapa. For those of us struggling to work out how to convert online user-generated content into physical exhibitions, we now have a brilliant model! Visit http://nlablog.wordpress.com for more information! Continue

Added by Angelina Russo on September 22, 2008 at 1:00pm — No 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

Added by Angelina Russo on August 18, 2008 at 3:10pm — 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

Added by Angelina Russo on July 23, 2008 at 7:05pm — 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

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

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

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

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