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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.

Workplace: Powerhouse Museum

Website: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com

Blog: http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/

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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 22nd, 2008 at 1:04am — 2 Comments (Add)

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 13th, 2008 at 1:38pm — No Comments (Add)

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 7th, 2008 at 8:06pm — No Comments (Add)

Fresh & New - More on augmented reality and museums

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

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 at 6:06pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 12:12pm on March 7th, 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!!