Common Ground – The Global Flickr Commons Meetup October 2 & 3
On October 2 & 3, depending on where you are in the world a group of institutions who have put photographs into the Commons on Flickr are having a ‘meet up’. The Powerhouse is hosting the Sydney one on Saturday October 3, 630-9pm.
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Common Ground – The Global Flickr Commons Meetup October 2 & 3
September 3rd, 2009 No Comments
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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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Mapping your social network
February 24th, 2009 Comments Off
What you see above is a map of my Facebook friends and their interconnections. The core mesh shows the tight interlinking of my social friends who I went to university with or are involved in some way in musical pursuits. The smaller, less dense cluster to the right are my ‘museum tech’ acquaintances – drawn [...]
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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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Powerhouse on Facebook
August 10th, 2008 2 Comments
We’ve kept this quiet so far but along with the start of the Sydney Design 08 campaign the Museum launched a small Facebook presence. Importantly this presence is managed as a joint effort between the Museum’s Marketing Department and the Web Services Unit, rather than just being a web project.
Sydney Design has a profile as [...]
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Camilla Cooke explains the Kevin07 digital campaign – notes from CCI ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce’ conference, Brisbane, 2008
June 28th, 2008 1 Comment
Here’s the second of a set of notes scribed during the main sessions of the CCI’s conference ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce‘.
Camilla Cooke was the strategist behind the Kevin07 digital campaign in what she described as ‘Australia’s first digital election’. In a fantastic presentation she went through the rationale behind the digital elements of [...]
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Just how popular is that Facebook application? Artshare and Steve Art Tagger and Developer Analytics
June 13th, 2008 11 Comments
I’ve been wondering for a long time about the real popularity of Facebook apps that are targetted at specific niche user groups.
Well with Developer Analytics you can find out – without needing to be the actual developer of the Facebook application in question.
With the museum community starting to build useful applications like the Brooklyn’s ArtShare [...]
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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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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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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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