Recently saw the final days of The 80s Are Back exhibition – the end of a run that began back in late 2009. The website now moves into a ‘post-exhibition’ mode and many of the social media elements of the site will no longer be updated. Given the length of time that these have been [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social media'
Interview with Mia Ridge on museum metadata games
January 3rd, 2011 2 Comments
Mia Ridge is the lead developer at the Science Museum in London. She approached us in 2010 to use our collection database in her Masters research project which looks at the impact of different interfaces in museum collection-related ‘games’. Her research project is up and running at Museumgam.es where you can partake in a variety [...]
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On chocolate cakes, journalism and co-curating museums
October 26th, 2010 1 Comment
Here’s a great piece from the Nieman Journalism Lab on the New York Times’ community-sourced recipe book – dug out of tens of thousands of records in their archives. If you change your working relationship to your audience, you will understand that audience in a new way. The tools that support those two steps also [...]
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Ask a Curator Day – behind what the Powerhouse is doing
August 27th, 2010 Comments Off
The InternationalAsk A Curator Day happens on September 1st this year and the Powerhouse is excited to be taking part even though we’ll be taking questions through our Facebook page rather than Twitter. We’re hoping that by using Facebook we’ll be able to answer more detailed questions and potentially reach a wider audience. Unlike our [...]
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What are your Facebook fans also fans of?
February 14th, 2010 1 Comment
Museums have been pretty good at setting up camp in Facebook. Most have fan pages and groups (and there are many ongoing discussions as to whether groups or pages are ‘better’). But what matters about all of these activities is whether they are reaching and engaging people who otherwise wouldn’t be. Or are you engaging [...]
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Virtuous circle – from visitor to speaker
July 26th, 2009 Comments Off
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 [...]
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Digital graffiti or derivative art? Notes on a skeleton
July 13th, 2009 1 Comment
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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