Web teams

Comment by Liz Holcombe on July 27, 2008 at 4:26pm

What projects are people working on?

At my place (Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia ) we are investigating how to use social sites like Facebook, Flickr and YouTube to connect with people. These experiments are so far small, but very interesting.
We are also actively encouraging staff to learn how to use these and other social media tools so that we can make better use of the web and our website. We have done this to date by a mixture of one on one training, over the phone and email help, some "homework" assignments, and a self-paced learning document two of developed in a few hours on Google docs, and posted on our Ning network. The results so far have been very encouraging.

Comment by Tikka Wilson on December 5, 2008 at 3:48pm

Hi all,

Yesterday I went to a seminar organised by AGIMO (Australian Government Information Management Office) on Web 2.0. Although this post is most relevant to people working for Australian government museums, hopefully it's good news for everyone that we have a federal government interested in social networking and social media.

Anyway, the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, spoke at the seminar and confessed to being a 'zealot' on open communication and citizen participation. And he supports using Web 2.0 tools! He and many of the other presenters acknowledged that Web 2.0 spaces require personalised voices (not 'polly speak') and that staff need to have more freedom to participate.

The AGIMO reps said that a suite of resources would be released next week. For those of you in fed gov museums, AGIMO hosts a social networking space at govdex.gov.au/. I've applied for a 'community' and will let you know if it's useful. For me at the National Museum, it may be a way around having web projects knocked back because of IT security fears.

Comment by Cath on June 24, 2009 at 9:34am

Following on from Tikka's comment, it was exciting on Monday to hear Tanner and Ludwig announce Government 2.0 Taskforce. The whole forum on Public Sphere was exciting, actually. And look there's a picture of me in the top row of pix, fourth from the left ;)

Tikka, any interesting action on the govdex front?

Comment by Cath on June 24, 2009 at 9:35am

Eep, I forgot to include the *link* to Public Sphere and comments are not editable...

Comment by Tim Sherratt on June 11, 2010 at 6:31pm

Hi all, I just added details of THATCamp Canberra to the events section. It's an unconference on the digital humanities - so there's likely to be plenty to interest museum web folk. Hope to see you there!

Comment by Tim Sherratt on October 7, 2010 at 4:05pm

Web folks - those of you interested in exploring the implications of the semantic web for museums might like to join the new Linked Data group.

Comment by Cath on October 8, 2010 at 2:31pm

Michael Edson talk at the Powerhouse Museum next week sounds good.

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