The last six weeks have been a bit of a blur – settling into a new city, a new job, trying to find proper coffee nearby (still unsuccessful!). As you do in a new job, my first weeks have been spent looking at the lie of the land and analysing the data available about the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Museum blogging'
Powerhouse Museum collection WordPress plugin goes live!
January 21st, 2011 4 Comments
Today the first public beta of our WordPress collection plugin was released into the wild. With it and a free API key anyone can now embed customised collection objects in grids in their WordPress blog. Object grids can be placed in posts and pages, or even as a sidebar widget – and each grid can [...]
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Fresh & New(er) is 5 years old!
May 1st, 2010 2 Comments
Fresh & New(er) has just turned 5! This blog started back in May 2005 as a storehouse of all the links and commentary that the Powerhouse web team of the time used to send around via email. It wasn’t until one of the posts got picked up and commented on by some enthusiastic educators that [...]
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The Powerhouse Museum library now blogs
February 22nd, 2009 1 Comment
Another thing I’ve neglected to mention is that our Research Library now has a blog. They are the fourth internal unit to blog publicly about their day to day work (joining our Image Services and Photography team, Conservation team, and of course the Digital group – which you are reading now). The Library is home [...]
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Sydney Observatory as ‘one of the best 15 business blogs in Australia’
October 10th, 2008 Comments Off
The Sydney Observatory blog has been listed by Smart Company magazine as one of the ‘best 15 business blogs in Australia‘. It is great, if a little odd, to see the Observatory – a non-profit – listed in amongst blogs that are overtly commercial in orientation. I did a few calculations and worked out that [...]
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A new look Fresh & New
August 10th, 2008 6 Comments
I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded WordPress and at the same time changed themes, upgraded plugins etc. And, bar a few fiddly errors, it went pretty smoothly. One word of advice for others lagging on really old versions of WordPress – take the time to upgrade version numbers one at a time (major stable version [...]
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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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Rich collection-oriented curator blogging – an interview with the Australian War Memorial
May 6th, 2008 5 Comments
In the Australian cultural sector, one of the best examples of curatorial blogging is at the Australian War Memorial. In a few short years they have created a lot of blog content and blogging has provided a much more efficient way of creating engaging content for exhibitions than standalone resource-hungry web microsites.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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