Tonight we had the official public opening of Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination. Already images and videos of the exhibition and the launch, taken by members of the public (“the people formerly known as the audience”) are starting to appear online across the social web. Here’s photos on Flickr and no doubt tomorrow there [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination opens and is immediately on the web
December 3rd, 2008 3 Comments
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Brooklyn joins the Commons, we hit the 500 mark
May 30th, 2008 1 Comment
The Brooklyn Museum have just joined the Commons on Flickr and some of the material they’ve released is spectacular. Amongst the highlights are some amazing lantern slides of Egypt as well as colourised photographs from the Paris Exposition in 1900. Some of the colourised images are quite surreal. Brookyln have also released some of them [...]
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Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and ‘architectures of participation’
May 27th, 2008 Comments Off
This is a long and sprawling post and comes off the back of two weeks of presentations around the country and a lot of discussions about the ‘future of museums’. Perhaps find a comfortable chair and a hot beverage. Checking my RSS feeds this morning I came across this piece from the Boston Globe which [...]
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Social technologies and museums – the ‘groundswell’ and museums
May 24th, 2008 2 Comments
The folks at McGraw Hill/Harvard Business Press recently sent me an advance copy of Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff’s Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies for review. The book builds on Li and Bernoff’s Forrester research blog and in particular their social technographics work. Aimed at managers, executives and marketing staff, the [...]
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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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Powerhouse Museum joins the Commons on Flickr – the what, why and how
April 8th, 2008 7 Comments
Yes, you read that right. The Powerhouse Museum is the first museum to join the Commons on Flickr! And we’re excited because it went live today! In the tradition of ‘slow food’ we have decided to do a slow release of content with an initial 200 historic images of Sydney and surrounds available through the [...]
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Free talk – ‘New web technologies and museums’ – Wednesday 26 March at the Powerhouse Museum
March 24th, 2008 1 Comment
If you’ve missed any of my recent presentations then I am doing a bit of a ‘remix’ of them this Wednesday, March 26 (edited!) at the Powerhouse Museum from 1230pm to 130pm. Entry is free after normal museum admission. As a part of the ‘Talks After Noon‘ series I will be talking about the future [...]
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