Open Culture provides a withering examination of Google’s Knol project and in so doing draws out some of the strengths of the Wikipedia approach in terms of collaborative production. In the discussion of the Knol project, Dan Colman speaks of some the fundamental shortcomings in the Knol approach, shortcomings that Wikipedia’s approach has been able [...]
Entries from December 19th, 2007
Social media marketing in the performing arts
December 19th, 2007 3 Comments
Beth Kanter and Rebecca Krause-Hardie have put together a good primer which appeared in Arts Reach magazine on some of the ways performing arts organisations are using social media to engage with their audiences in new ways. Two things jumped out immediately. Firstly, that social media has seriously challenged the short-term marketing focus of many [...]
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Australian ICT use amongst marginalised youth and health service providers
December 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Australian non-profit foundation Inspire has released a report on ICT usage amongst marginalised youth and health service providers. Amongst many things it reveals that at least in the state of Victoria, a digital divide in terms of access is far less prevalent than is generally expected. Mirroring the findings of a lot of overseas research [...]
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NLA Social Media & Cultural Communication conference – Sydney, Feb 28/29, 2008
November 29th, 2007 Comments Off
Registrations have opened for the Social Media and Cultural Communication conference to be held in Sydney in February 2008. This conference is one of the outcomes of the Australian Research Council research project New Literacy, New Audiences which concludes shortly. The conference brings together a range of great museum industry speakers from around Australia as [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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Ubiquitous connectivity and the ambient Internet . . . . in the kitchen
November 13th, 2007 4 Comments
We’ve probably all heard of the Internet Refrigerator, but I’ve never really understood why you’d bother with one. Last week my Chumby arrived (via a friend in San Francisco) and it is sitting in the kitchen alongside the tea. Although the Chumby is not the most versatile of devices, what I like about it is [...]
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Anthony Grafton on digitisation in the New Yorker
November 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
Over in the New Yorker is an excellent article on digitisation, the various book scanning projects, and a historical look at the urge to record and catalogue everything written by historian Anthony Grafton. Here are some pull quotes of specific note –
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OpenSocial, social networking and museums
November 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
Google’s OpenSocial has finally gone live. What it provides for the museum sector is a much easier way to seed content to social networks, where apparently our younger online audiences, like to spend a lot of their time. OpenSocial, as opposed to a Facebook application, promises to work across multiple social networking services – meaning [...]
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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’ [...]
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