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June 2008 Blog Posts (10)

Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list

Here's the list of Australia's top web apps compiled by Ross Dawson - note that our own Seb and Powerhouse makes the list!

While it makes interesting reading, a long list of apps without any context or grouping is pretty unhelpful in my view. I tried to go on his blog to add this but couldn't work out how.

Added by Lynda Kelly on June 20, 2008 at 12:02pm — 1 Comment

Data, data everywhere... yet, no audience insight

Data, data everywhere... yet, no audience insight

Ron Layne / Fuel4Arts

This paper promotes the value of data for strategic marketing and outlines some of the main issues and challenges for arts organisations around collecting, analysing and managing audience data. It also provides a brief overview of data collection methods and Vital Statistics, a program developed and offered by Purple Seven in the UK which will be rolled out across Australia and New Zealand over… Continue

Added by John Tann on June 17, 2008 at 1:27pm — No Comments

New post over at Fresh & New - Facebook Application analytics

I've done a short profile of a service that gives you access to analytics on which Facebook applications are getting used and which aren't . . . . and by who.…

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Added by Seb Chan on June 13, 2008 at 12:38pm — No Comments

The Bank of Common Knowledge

The always great We Make Money Not Art just introduced me to the the Bank of Common Knowledge. A fantastic project in distributed thinking and collaborative public participation. From WMMNA's write-up:

Inspired by an Internet shaped by the collective effort of thousands of distributed agents who publicly shared their knowledge to achieve a common goal, the BCK project is based on the firm belief that creating, sharing, transmitting and exchanging knowledge in the public sphere is… Continue

Added by Christopher Edwards on June 13, 2008 at 9:22am — No Comments

at the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden, part 3

I had to miss Wednesday, the last day of the conference, but had an action-packed final day myself on Tuesday.

The first presentation I saw was on museum learning and virtual worlds. I felt the presenter (Lea Kuznik, from the University of Ljubljana) could have taken time to link her theoretical framework (Gogola's experiential pedagogy and 'peak experiences') to her overview of virtual worlds. I think it could have been a fascinating paper about what a 'peak experience' might be in… Continue

Added by jen on June 13, 2008 at 3:49am — 1 Comment

at the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden, part 2

I think today was about the personal for me. It started with a really nice chat over breakfast about people's personal attachment to museums and museum spaces - I shared a story from one of our recent NMOLP research reports with the president of ICOM - eep! - which probably got me thinking along these lines to begin with.

Then I went to Marcus Wood's keynote. He gave a moving and complex talk about museum narratives of the mass trauma of slavery, and their focus on the wounded slave… Continue

Added by jen on June 10, 2008 at 2:20am — No Comments

at the Inclusive Museum conference in Leiden, part 1

At Lynda's suggestion, I thought I'd make a few notes here for those unlucky enough not to be in glorious Leiden at the first International Conference on the Inclusive Museum.

First, let me say that if it were possible to subsist entirely on Dutch pancakes, I would do it.

The introductory material in the conference programme touches on many themes and concerns of interest to… Continue

Added by jen on June 9, 2008 at 5:15am — 1 Comment

New post on Fresh & New: User experience is all that matters

I've written a new post around user experience, newspapers and museum sites . . . with follow ups to come.

Have a gander.

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/06/06/user-experience-is-all-that-matters-a-reminder-about-content-search-and-users/

Added by Seb Chan on June 7, 2008 at 7:06pm — No Comments

Paper Worth Reading: Government Data and the Invisible Hand

David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller and Edward Felten have a great paper (pre-publish preview) at Yale Journal of Law & Technology challenging the mainstream thinking regarding role of IT in Government Services. I gave a talk last… Continue

Added by Shoaib Burq on June 6, 2008 at 7:30pm — 3 Comments