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July 2008 Blog Posts (7)

Upcoming M&GSQ Professional Development Event: September 2008

Creative Uses of the Collection is a Museum & Gallery Services Queensland Seminar in partnership with The University of Queensland Art Museum and The University of Queensland’s Museum Studies program (School of English, Media Studies and Art History)

Date: Thursday 11 September 2.00pm - 4.30pm (drinks 4.30pm - 5.30pm)

Venue: University of Queensland Art Museum, University Drive, St Lucia

Cost: $45 (inc GST) - full registration fee

$35 (inc GST) - concession… Continue

Added by Robert on July 24, 2008 at 12:09pm — 2 Comments

Social Media as an agent of peace

A review of an interesting talk I saw at the EVA Conference in London yesterday.
See http://nlablog.wordpress.com

Added by Angelina Russo on July 23, 2008 at 6:05pm — No Comments

Art conference in Brisbane

CALL FOR PAPERS: AAANZ 2008 CONFERENCE

QUEENSLAND COLLEGE OF ART, GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY and QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY and GALLERY OF MODERN ART

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

4-6 December, 2008

AAANZ: Alpha Alpha Alpha November Zulu

The 2008 Art Association of Australia and New Zealand conference aims to encourage papers from a broad disciplinary base and as part of this to recall the earlier involvement of the design professions in the Association and the Australian and New… Continue

Added by Robert on July 22, 2008 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Commons on Flickr 3 Month Report from Powerhouse

I've finally blogged our 3 month report on the Commons on Flickr.

Its long so make some tea before you sit down and read it. Maybe even break out the Tim Tams.

Added by Seb Chan on July 22, 2008 at 12:04am — 2 Comments

How we display our images online

I don't think we do it that well. Have a read of this blog post about some images I saw yesterday from the TDF.

Added by Mal Booth on July 18, 2008 at 11:55am — No Comments

Project AMEP

Today we begin an adventure. I'm taking on board Mal's idea of "touring the web", building on Nina's work about how much time does Web 2.0 take and my own reflections in my paper Museum 3.0, organisational change and… Continue

Added by Lynda Kelly on July 10, 2008 at 3:34pm — 15 Comments

Ken Hamma from the Getty on the cost of technology

I listened to this "parcast" from OCLC today. I think it is a well spent 20 minutes. It is very recent interview between Günter Waibel and Ken Hamma, the retiring Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives of the J. Paul Getty Trust. It is easy to follow, but touches on how the progress of information technology has impacted on the library, archive and museum world and also what Ken believes is the non-proprietary way forward (using open source technology). He also touches on… Continue

Added by Mal Booth on July 8, 2008 at 10:49am — 11 Comments