I’m hitting the road again in a few weeks – this time spending a bit of time in Europe working with a range of institutions – before the National Digital Forum in New Zealand at the end of November.
First up is a presentation for ABM-Centrum in Stockholm, Sweden on Friday October 23. This event is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Conferences and event reports'
Upcoming talks update – Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, Wellington
October 6th, 2009 1 Comment
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Upcoming talks, workshops and presentations
August 13th, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve got a bunch of sector talks, workshops and presentations coming up over the next few months. I’ll be talking about some brand new (and right now, top secret) projects that focus on ‘linked data’, maps and the ‘Papernet’, as well as delving deeper into metrics, ‘value’ and digital strategy.
So you just missed me at [...]
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Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009
August 9th, 2009 7 Comments
Photography by Paula Bray
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0
(Post by Paula Bray)
Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. This event [...]
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MW2009 Clouds, Switches, APIs, Geolocation and Galleries – a shoddy summary
April 27th, 2009 4 Comments
(Disclaimer – this is a rushed post cobbled together from equally rushed notes!)
Like most years, this year’s Museums and the Web (MW2009) was all about the people. Catching up with people, putting faces to names, and having heated discussions in a revolving restaurant atop the conference venue in Indianapolis. The value of face to face [...]
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MW2009 – Multi-touch: what does this technology hold for future musuem exhibits?
April 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Hi I’m Paula Bray and I usually blog over at Photo of the Day.
Today, whilst Seb was slaving away giving two workshops in a row at Museums and the Web 2009 I spent the day with Jim Spadaccini and Paul Lacey in a great, full-day workshop called ‘Make It Multi-touch’ that showcased the custom [...]
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Twitter and upcoming presentations and workshops
February 24th, 2009 3 Comments
As many of you know I’ve got a large number of workshops and presentations coming up.
Next week I’m speaking at the State Library of NSW’s Perceptions and Connections conference then later in the week running two workshops on metrics and giving a presentation at the Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication conference in Melbourne. A [...]
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Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication 2009 conference and short interview with Shelley Bernstein
January 8th, 2009 3 Comments
In early March at Melbourne Museum the follow-up conference to last year’s Social Media & Cultural Communication takes place. This time the conference has been re-named and slightly refocussed as Transformations in Cultural and Scientific Communication and has a great lineup of speakers from around the country and overseas.
Join leading national and international experts at [...]
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Michael Highland – As Real As Your Life / games and experience
December 12th, 2008 Comments Off
Amongst many interesting things over the past few days, I’ve just been listening to Gino Yu, Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, talking about experience and brain development. In his talk at the Culturemondo Roundtable here in Taipei he showed an excerpt of one of his former students, Michael [...]
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Better web metrics for museums – a MW09 workshop, April 2009
December 7th, 2008 Comments Off
The Museums and the Web 2009 programme is now out and registration has started. This year the action takes place in Indianapolis and many of us faraway people are looking forward to checking out the IMA.
If you attended MW last year or the recent National Digital Forum in NZ, or maybe your organisation has had [...]
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Filippo Minelli ‘Contradictions’ and the Culturemondo 4th Roundtable
December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
I’m about to head off to another Culturemondo Roundtable and the Wooster Collective posts a timely set of street art from Italian artist Filippo Minelli.
“Facebook”, spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako – Mali, 2008
Minelli’s Contradictions series, as a short interview on Wooster explains, illuminates the techno-social environment where -
“users are pushed to live in an intense [...]
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