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By Anne Bonnar
4 January 2010
JButler’s Last Year on This is Central Station Amongst the new year roundups was this one in the Observer – Top Cultural Apps of 2009. The list includes industry leaders like Spotify and the list of 30 is dominated by those broadcasting existing content like Love Art: National Gallery, Stanza and the LPO and those [...]
By AmbITion
9 December 2009
In the lead up to an exhibition opening in January called Verb: to read and write, I am experimenting with Twitter and it’s timeline to invite everyone to write a story! You can find it at #hashtagnarrative and it’s just getting started. I’m learning the glitches as we go along – the timeline doesn’t always [...]
By AmbITion
6 December 2009
On Sunday, October 25 the Western Museums Association held a pre-conference workshop at San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts called “Getting Comfortable with Visitor Comfort.” The goal of the workshop was to help participants and the museum assess how the museum’s experience met visitors’ comfort needs, and therefore was an experience they might want to [...]
By Laurence Hill
4 December 2009
Hello all, Please find a link here to pre-order a book that I’m involved with that is being published by Museums etc. If you pre-order you get to read it as it’s being written, comment and help to shape it. Laurence
By Laurence Hill
2 December 2009
Hello all, Further to my previous post. The Twitter game that we played to sit alongside the final week of Chameleon is over. Thoughts about it on the blog here. Comments welcome Best wishes Laurence
By AmbITion
29 November 2009
San Diego hosted this two-day conference, sponsored by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative and funded by the Benbough Foundation. This was an amazing opportunity to hear some cutting-edge experts on museums and social media, and organizer Rich Cherry did a fantastic job bringing them all together. Speakers included Peter Samis, Associate Curator of Interpretation for [...]
By Christian Payne
26 November 2009
NB. Any geeky jargon you may come across will be explained at the end “The show begins at the moment you first hear about it” @untheatre at Shift Happens June 29th 2009 “It’s critical that artists are engaged with the digital world, not just for marketing, but to ask difficult, big questions of it” [...]
By Ian Aspin
26 November 2009
Picture credit: MarkHillary Ain’t this brilliant! Since I discovered digital social connectedness (i.e. Twitter etc.) back in March, I’m glad to tell you lots of amazing things have happened: I’ve found great contributors and stories for my journalism work, been asked to speak at events, write, present, produce, collaborate, learned loads, had lots of laughs, [...]
By Laurence Hill
25 November 2009
Hello, Thought I’d let you know what I’m up to. I’ve just launched a game on Twitter to sit alongside our current show, Chameleon by Tina Gonsalves. I’ve been thinking about different ways to utilize social media to engage people with the gallery and our exhibitions and I keep coming back to the idea that [...]
By Christian Payne
22 November 2009
I get asked this all the time and as someone passionate about the keeping my social and business connections alive through platforms like twitter.. I guess I’m an extreme case when I say sometimes I can use twitter up to 3 hours a day. This is a different question to “How long do you spend [...]
