Theres been a fair bit of excitement around the traps today about the revealing of Amazon’s tracking of highlighting on their Kindle devices. In fact this sort of interaction tracking has been going on on the web for quite a while – but the Kindle example is one of the first where this data is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Conferences and event reports'
Short report on Museums and the Web 2010, Denver
April 27th, 2010 1 Comment
Denver is a very high altitude city. One mile up, many of the conference attendees suffered from altitude sickness – especially those who had flown directly into such a high altitude. This year’s conference was slightly different to previous years. Session formats had changed ever so slightly and the conference venue had had to split [...]
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First impression of the iPad (and museum possibilities)
April 26th, 2010 4 Comments
Here’s something I wrote about the iPad on the flight back from Museums and the Web 2010. I promise a full conference rundown later. – I’ve just spent about 24 hours sitting in a confined airline seat playing with an iPad. I picked up one in New York on the day before flying out and [...]
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Upcoming talks update – Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, Wellington
October 6th, 2009 1 Comment
I’m hitting the road again in a few weeks – this time spending a bit of time in Europe working with a range of institutions – before the National Digital Forum in New Zealand at the end of November. First up is a presentation for ABM-Centrum in Stockholm, Sweden on Friday October 23. This event [...]
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Upcoming talks, workshops and presentations
August 13th, 2009 Comments Off
I’ve got a bunch of sector talks, workshops and presentations coming up over the next few months. I’ll be talking about some brand new (and right now, top secret) projects that focus on ‘linked data’, maps and the ‘Papernet’, as well as delving deeper into metrics, ‘value’ and digital strategy. So you just missed me [...]
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Some thoughts: post #GLAM-WIKI 2009
August 9th, 2009 4 Comments
Photography by Paula Bray License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 (Post by Paula Bray) Seb and I have just spent two days at a conference, in the nation’s rather chilly capital that involved a bunch of Wikimedians (wonder what that would be called) and members from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries and Museum sector) sector. [...]
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MW2009 Clouds, Switches, APIs, Geolocation and Galleries – a shoddy summary
April 27th, 2009 1 Comment
(Disclaimer – this is a rushed post cobbled together from equally rushed notes!) Like most years, this year’s Museums and the Web (MW2009) was all about the people. Catching up with people, putting faces to names, and having heated discussions in a revolving restaurant atop the conference venue in Indianapolis. The value of face to [...]
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MW2009 – Multi-touch: what does this technology hold for future musuem exhibits?
April 16th, 2009 3 Comments
Hi I’m Paula Bray and I usually blog over at Photo of the Day. Today, whilst Seb was slaving away giving two workshops in a row at Museums and the Web 2009 I spent the day with Jim Spadaccini and Paul Lacey in a great, full-day workshop called ‘Make It Multi-touch’ that showcased the custom [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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