A few days ago we published our new Strategic Plan to be implemented over the next couple of years. The plan has come together through focus groups with external stakeholders, communities, specialists; as well as a long process of rethinking and reorganisation within the Museum as well.
This has been the most broadly consultative ’strategic plan’ [...]
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A new strategic plan for the Powerhouse
September 16th, 2009 10 Comments
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Research into the value of public sector information for cultural institutions
September 2nd, 2009 No Comments
The Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce is calling for quotes for a range of research projects.
Project #6 (pdf) is a quick turnaround project examining the ‘value of public sector information for cultural institutions’. AU$40,000 is available with a quote deadline of 9 September. Report due by 19 October.
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Assess and quantify the economic and social benefits [...]
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Help out with direct input into the Australian Government 2.0 Issues Paper
July 20th, 2009 2 Comments
As regular readers know I am on the (Australian) Government 2.0 Taskforce.
We’ve just released an alpha version of our Issues Paper and we’d like you to add your comments and input.
I’m especially interested in input from the web developers and creative nerds, as well as from the government-funded cultural sector – who I’m working to [...]
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Demspey on libraries, networked services and mobile communications
January 8th, 2009 1 Comment
The latest First Monday contains a great essay titled Always on: libraries in a world of permanent connectivity. Written by OCLC’s Lorcan Dempsey it gives a broad overview of the changes in networked communication and service delivery and explores the coming issues for libraries (and by extension, museums) wrought by mobile communications and mobile patrons.
Here’s [...]
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Australian internet usage trends and statistics
August 11th, 2008 Comments Off
Knowing your audience is critical yet being outside of North America often means that we end up justifying projects, strategies, methodologies on general audience data drawn from another continent.
The CCI at QUT has just published the latest ‘Digital Futures Report – the Internet in Australia‘ which is a very comprehensive look at how Australian internet [...]
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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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