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Lynda Kelly's Blog – April 2008 Archive (4)

Museums and Web 2008 Conference

Several of us ning'rs are at this conference. I'm blogging my impressions on the Audience Research blog and Seb will be blogging on fresh+new(er). Going well so far!

Added by Lynda Kelly on April 11, 2008 at 4:36am — 11 Comments

How many social networking sites do you need to be part of??

Been thinking lots about this quite a bit lately as I drown, pleasantly, in my online world. There's a group on Facebook called, appropriately, Museums on Facebook which, at last look, has 241 members. They are now having a discussion about the value of Facebook for museums (which staff at the Australian Museum also had a few weeks ago at our Facebook Friday event). Here's the post I added if anyone's… Continue

Added by Lynda Kelly on April 6, 2008 at 9:18am — 4 Comments

Seminar 28 April 2008: Countering Prejudice: activism and agency in the museum

The Centre for Cultural Research (UWS) and the Australian Museum present a seminar by Dr Richard Sandell, University of Leicester

When? Monday 28th April, 3-5pm

Where? Australian Museum Theatrette, 6 College Street (please enter via William Street)

Abstract

Research in recent years has highlighted the constitutive or… Continue

Added by Lynda Kelly on April 2, 2008 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Museum reboots historical records with email archive

Here's an interesting idea - archiving all those embarassing and interesting emails you've kept along the way. To contribute go to the emailaustralia project website.

Added by Lynda Kelly on April 1, 2008 at 7:05am — No Comments