This short post is for everyone who naively asks about the “ROI of social media” and whether “websites can be proven to result in museum visitation”.
Two years ago Bob Meade wasn’t a regular visitor to the Museum (despite being directly in one of our “target demographics”) let alone a user of our website.
Then we released [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social media'
Virtuous circle – from visitor to speaker
July 26th, 2009 2 Comments
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Digital graffiti or derivative art? Notes on a skeleton
July 13th, 2009 4 Comments
A pretty innocuous and humorous image from our Phillips Collection in the Commons on Flickr with a lot of views – nearly 33,000.
A quick mouseover reveals this hodge podge of notes.
Is this graffiti? Should they be removed? Would removal just be ‘feeding the trolls‘?
Are they doing it for the lulz?
Or is this some kind [...]
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Twitter information for your users – good practice from Mosman Municipal Council
May 18th, 2009 2 Comments
Mosman Council has been doing some great stuff with social media and today Laurel Papworth pointed out their ‘Twitter policy’ that is on their website. They are one of the exemplars of local government social media in Australia – despite being a local government area with a higher-than-average older demographic.
Their information page about the [...]
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Impact of the Commons on image sales at the Powerhouse
April 7th, 2009 4 Comments
As many readers know, Paula Bray, our manager of Visual and Digitisation Services, has been working on a paper for Museums and the Web looking at the impact of the Commons on Flickr on our image sales business.
Paula’s paper has been published over at Archimuse and if you are going to be in Indianapolis next [...]
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Engaging audiences with exhibitions in early development – Signs and the 1980s
February 13th, 2009 2 Comments
Much like other museums we’ve started in earnest committing to engaging collaborators in exhibitions from the earliest stages possible. Our next two big(-ish) exhibitions are using different methods to collate, curate, and select content and ideas.
Our upcoming exhibition on Signs which will open around the time of Sydney Design 09 in August has just launched [...]
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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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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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Community resilience – the emerging Commons community
January 8th, 2009 2 Comments
Courtney at the National Library of NZ beat me to it but as she writes, Flickr staff and Flickr users have visibly self-organised to grow the Commons on Flickr.
There’s a new public Flickr Commons group on Flickr and today, a new Commons blog – Indicommons. These point of presence are acting as meeting places for [...]
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DIY museums on Not Quite Art Series 2 (ABC TV)
October 25th, 2008 1 Comment
If you happen to live in Australia (or know someone who does), then you might be interested in the final episode of series 2 of Marcus Westbury’s Not Quite Art. This final episode is on ‘DIY museums’ and how cultural institutions are adapting to the digital environment. It screens on ABC TV on Tuesday night [...]
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Dan Hill makes a modernism in Australia map for Modern Times (or interesting things clever people do when they have some spare time)
September 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Dan Hill from Arup and the author of the wonderful City of Sound blog wrote a review of the Powerhouse’s Modern Times exhibition. In his criticism of the exhibition he wondered where the extra-exhibition content was – especially given the perfect fit between the content of the exhibition and specific places and sites. He describes [...]
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