Another thing I’ve neglected to mention is that our Research Library now has a blog. They are the fourth internal unit to blog publicly about their day to day work (joining our Image Services and Photography team, Conservation team, and of course the Digital group – which you are reading now).
The Library is home to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Museum blogging'
The Powerhouse Museum library now blogs
February 22nd, 2009 1 Comment
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Sydney Observatory as ‘one of the best 15 business blogs in Australia’
October 10th, 2008 Comments Off
The Sydney Observatory blog has been listed by Smart Company magazine as one of the ‘best 15 business blogs in Australia‘.
It is great, if a little odd, to see the Observatory – a non-profit – listed in amongst blogs that are overtly commercial in orientation.
I did a few calculations and worked out that in the [...]
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A new look Fresh & New
August 10th, 2008 6 Comments
I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded Wordpress and at the same time changed themes, upgraded plugins etc. And, bar a few fiddly errors, it went pretty smoothly. One word of advice for others lagging on really old versions of Wordpress – take the time to upgrade version numbers one at a time (major stable version [...]
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Beth Kanter at the Powerhouse
May 26th, 2008 1 Comment
We were very lucky to have non-profit and NGO social media trainer Beth Kanter drop by to run a whirlwind seminar for us on Friday. Beth lives social media and technology. My team’s first words with her were captured and streamed live to the web on her Nokia N95 phone via Qik.com – even us [...]
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Rich collection-oriented curator blogging – an interview with the Australian War Memorial
May 6th, 2008 5 Comments
In the Australian cultural sector, one of the best examples of curatorial blogging is at the Australian War Memorial. In a few short years they have created a lot of blog content and blogging has provided a much more efficient way of creating engaging content for exhibitions than standalone resource-hungry web microsites.
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Updating your social media and staff blog policies
April 14th, 2008 Comments Off
At Musuems and the Web 2008 in the Planning Social Media workshop I briefly talked about the need for organisations to engage with, rather than ignore, the reality that their staff are using social media – even if not in their professional lives, and that this can cause occasional issues.
One year ago we launched our [...]
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Sydney Observatory blog – lessons from the first 2 years, an interview with Nick Lomb
March 24th, 2008 Comments Off
The Sydney Observatory blog will turn 2 in June. It has been an enormous success for the Observatory with its traffic now accounting for at least half of all traffic to the Observatory website each months. Since its launch there have been 291 posts to date and 1073 filtered comments.
The Sydney Observatory blog is one [...]
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Applying a new social media framework from Forrester to the cultural sector
March 11th, 2008 Comments Off
Josh Bernoff at Forrester has put together another good chart of how corporations might use social media to support five key functions – research, marketing, sales, support and development. He neatly ties together function, objective, the appropriate choice of social media application, and then a success metric for each.
Whilst the cultural sector may not have [...]
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Powerhouse Photo of the Day – a new museum blog
November 27th, 2007 1 Comment
I’m excited to announce a new Powerhouse Museum blog – our Photo of the Day blog.
This blog is aimed at exposing some of the amazing photographic work that occurs at the Museum. Our Image Services team doesn’t just do object photography, scanning and image sales – they have a fantastically talented group of professional photographers [...]
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Better museum blog metrics – is your blog really working for you and your organisation?
November 19th, 2007 1 Comment
Musuem blogs, even when they are one-directional (and have comments turned off), need to be measured differently. Jim Spadaccini and I wrote about this earlier in the year, but now with many many more museums blogging it is time for an update.
At the Powerhouse we’ve seen phenomenal growth in our blogs. This very blog, Fresh [...]
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