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Make some slime!

July 17th, 2009 Comments Off

Here’s something completely non-digital that you know you really want to do . . . make some slime!

Fortunately one of my team, Kate Lamerton, has been brewing up some amazing slime in the office and she’s popped the recipe up on our children’s website. (Kate is the childrens’ producer in the web team so she [...]

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500 posts on Powerhouse Photo of the Day! Win a print!

March 27th, 2009 Comments Off

Today our Photo of the Day blog is celebrating 500 posts!
There is a little prize of ‘a print of your choice’ going for the best suggestion or comment on the Photo of the Day for the next 500 posts.
The blog has been a great success for the Museum over the past 500 days and has [...]

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Crosspost – Powerhouse seeks C64!

March 9th, 2009 1 Comment

If you were like me and grew up with a Commodore 64 as your introduction to the world of programming and hacking then this is for you.
Over on our 80s exhibition blog a call has gone out.
We are seeking one or more C64s and games! We are looking for old C64s with an interesting provenance [...]

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Australian Dress Register

December 14th, 2008 Comments Off

One of the side projects the team launched recently was the Australian Dress Register.
The Australian Dress Register will document significant and well provenanced men’s, women’s and children’s dress in New South Wales dating up to 1945. It aims to assist museums and private collectors to recognise and research their dress collections and support better care [...]

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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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Upcoming talks and presentations (November/December)

October 27th, 2007 Comments Off

If you missed any of the recent conference presentations in Australia, the Powerhouse’s web technologies, strategy and expertise will be discussed/dissected/analysed at the following (public) events.
On Saturday December 1 at Focus Fest 2007 Agent Provocateurs I will be presenting under the theme ‘Provoking a shift in the dialogue:
Art audiences, galleries and the web’ which will [...]

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PHM seeks 2 new web developers – join the Powerhouse team!

October 15th, 2007 Comments Off

Folksonomies, mashups, data visualisation, UCD, usability, experimentation?
I am excited to announce that we have two developer jobs going here in the Powerhouse Museum Web Services Unit. We are looking to fill two roles, one working specifically on the Collections Australia Network (CAN) project, and the other on a new experimental project called About NSW.
Both roles [...]

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True Design – Powerhouse Museum’s latest digital storytelling productions

August 4th, 2007 Comments Off

We are very lucky to have within our museum a pair of media production labs – SoundHouse VectorLab – where the public can do short, low cost courses in video and music production. A spinoff of these facilities is a series of digital storytelling projects. Usually these projects are run in regional and rural communities [...]

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Great Wall museum bloggers reach their goal!

July 11th, 2007 Comments Off

One of our most successful, and earliest public facing blog experiments, Walking The Wall is almost over.
Even though the Great Wall of China exhibition moved on from PHM a while ago, our intrepid Great Wall walkers continued their trek, blogging as they went.
146 post and 630 comments later, they have finally finished their walk which [...]

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New Powerhouse front page

July 11th, 2007 4 Comments

Another long awaited change to our website has rolled out – a slightly updated front page and navigational redesign.
Obviously we are not in a position for a wholesale site redesign – something that is probably becoming a luxury these days – not just in terms of money but also in terms of user familiarisation. (Why [...]

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