Another thing that has emerged from the web analytics discussions has been the lack of clarity over how to consider the success or otherwise of museum Facebook fan pages. Not surprisingly there is a lot of superficial focus on the total number of fans, but this doesn’t give the necessary granularity you are going to [...]
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Tip #461: Segmenting and counting Facebook fans with the Ad Planner tool
September 20th, 2010 6 Comments
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Our Ask A Curator Day 2010 experience
September 6th, 2010 Comments Off
Last week was Ask A Curator Day and the Powerhouse was one of a bunch of Australian institutions that took part. Because of where we are in the global timezone, along with New Zealand we were one of the earliest to start Ask A Curator Day. This limited the exposure that Australian and NZ museums [...]
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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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Building the 80s – a multichannel longitudinal exhibition web presence
March 26th, 2010 Comments Off
You may have noticed that the posts on Fresh & New(er) have been a little scarce. That’s been because the team has been very busy. We’ve first been building, then running, a WordPress-based magazine-styled website as the final component in the overall exhibition web presence for the Powerhouse’s latest exhibition, The 80s are back. Introducing [...]
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Why Flickr Commons? (and why Wikimedia Commons is very different)
January 25th, 2010 8 Comments
The Powerhouse is coming up to the 2nd anniversary of our joining the Commons on Flickr. Back when we joined there was only the Library of Congress and we trusted that we were making the correct decision back then. (I’ll be blogging an interview with Paula Bray around the time of the anniversary.) A lot [...]
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Calling all curators – a quick survey of attitudes
November 21st, 2009 3 Comments
One of my colleagues at the Powerhouse, curator Erika Dicker, is writing a paper for Museums and the Web 2010 on the impact of some aspects of digital on day to day curatorial practice. Some F&N readers will know Erika is the editor of the Powerhouse’s Object of the Week blog, and her paper uses [...]
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Downloading, mashing and remixing our collection metadata
November 3rd, 2009 2 Comments
As you may know, we released our collection metadata a little while back as a downloadable archive. It is linked from both the NSW Government as well as the Federal Government‘s Data Catalogues. This has enabled it to be used in the current Mashup Australia contest and related Hack Day events and for the forthcoming [...]
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Another OPAC discovery – the Gambey dip circle (or the value of minimal tombstone data)
April 27th, 2009 1 Comment
New discoveries as a result of putting our incomplete collection database online are pretty common place – almost every week we are advised of corrections – but here’s another lovely story of an object whose provenance has been significantly enhanced by a member of the public. … If your organisation is still having doubts about the value of making available un-edited, un-verified, ageing tombstone data then it is worth showing examples like these.
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One year in the Commons on Flickr – statistics and . . . a book!
April 8th, 2009 4 Comments
Today we celebrate one year in the Commons on Flickr. Since April 8 last year we’ve uploaded 1,171 photos (382 geotagged) from four different archival photographic collections. These have been viewed 777,466 times! For photographs that had been either hidden away on our website (the original 270 Tyrrell photographs on our website were viewed around [...]
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Sydney Observatory and astrometry bots
February 22nd, 2009 1 Comment
Over at the Sydney Observatory blog you can read about our astronomy curator’s experiments with the ‘astrotagging bot’ behind the Astrometry project and group on Flickr. Today 20 February 2009 (Sydney time) the above image and five others were posted on the image sharing website Flickr here. Within a few minutes astrometry.net found the image [...]
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