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GLAM-WIKI: Finding the common ground
Dear All,
The event that you have (hopefully) all heard about, "Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Wikimedia: finding the common ground" is coming along apace!
We went live with registrations less than a week ago and already we're at 1/3 full - many of you on this Ning are among that number.
This is a Wikimedia Australia event, a world first for the Wikimedia movement, to bring together the cultural sector with the Wikimedia community to learn from each other and work out ways we can better collaborate. I hope that it will form the basis for a long and productive global conversation over the years. It is to be held in Canberra at the Australian National War Memorial on the first Thursday and Friday of August (6th and 7th). Did I mention it's free?
Aside from the speakers from within the GLAM sector - many who are contributors on this very website - we are bringing guest speakers from the global HQ in San Francisco and also from Wikimedia Deutschland. They have done some fantastic work in this field already. Several people from 'on the hill' in Canberra will also be attending including our opening speaker Senator Kate Lundy.
See all the details here: glam.wikimedia.org.au where you will also a "register" button.
(a tentative schedule will be published very soon)
This event is targeted at a broad-base of attendees: people from the many and various departments of GLAM sector organisations. Often the "internet question" seems to be passed around between the Web, Sales, Legal and Education departments - often with one department wanting to do different things to the other. So, this event specifically invites people from ALL of those departments in order that we can all get an understanding of how the various issues intersect.
If you can't attend in person, perhaps you'd like to follow along at our "Museums & Wikimedia" group here on the Museum3.0 Ning. If on twitter please use the phrase "GLAM-WIKI" (with the hyphen).
Please do pass this information on to your colleagues who might be interested. People on this website are the 'early adopters' in the industry we we need your recommendations to make sure word gets out. I really do hope to get to meet many of you there!
Sincerely,
Liam Wyatt - VP Wikimedia Australia & Convenor of GLAM-WIKI
www.wittylama.com
The event that you have (hopefully) all heard about, "Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Wikimedia: finding the common ground" is coming along apace!
We went live with registrations less than a week ago and already we're at 1/3 full - many of you on this Ning are among that number.
This is a Wikimedia Australia event, a world first for the Wikimedia movement, to bring together the cultural sector with the Wikimedia community to learn from each other and work out ways we can better collaborate. I hope that it will form the basis for a long and productive global conversation over the years. It is to be held in Canberra at the Australian National War Memorial on the first Thursday and Friday of August (6th and 7th). Did I mention it's free?
Aside from the speakers from within the GLAM sector - many who are contributors on this very website - we are bringing guest speakers from the global HQ in San Francisco and also from Wikimedia Deutschland. They have done some fantastic work in this field already. Several people from 'on the hill' in Canberra will also be attending including our opening speaker Senator Kate Lundy.
See all the details here: glam.wikimedia.org.au where you will also a "register" button.
(a tentative schedule will be published very soon)
This event is targeted at a broad-base of attendees: people from the many and various departments of GLAM sector organisations. Often the "internet question" seems to be passed around between the Web, Sales, Legal and Education departments - often with one department wanting to do different things to the other. So, this event specifically invites people from ALL of those departments in order that we can all get an understanding of how the various issues intersect.
If you can't attend in person, perhaps you'd like to follow along at our "Museums & Wikimedia" group here on the Museum3.0 Ning. If on twitter please use the phrase "GLAM-WIKI" (with the hyphen).
Please do pass this information on to your colleagues who might be interested. People on this website are the 'early adopters' in the industry we we need your recommendations to make sure word gets out. I really do hope to get to meet many of you there!
Sincerely,
Liam Wyatt - VP Wikimedia Australia & Convenor of GLAM-WIKI
www.wittylama.com
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Comment by Lynda Kelly on June 17, 2009 at 10:46pm -
Liam - how are the numbers going? We're planning to send a heap of people from the Aust Mus and want to know if we'll fit!
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Comment by Liam Wyatt on June 17, 2009 at 10:53pm -
Well - as of today we've received registrations for 40% of the seats, including people coming from Brissie, Auckland, Melbourne, Perth, Hobart and of course Sydney and Canberra! So, I think that considering it's only been 'live' for about 10 days that's going great. Glad to know that AustMus will be out there in force! If there's a particular issue you'd like us to discuss, or even would like to have pre-conf or post-conf tailored session, I'm sure we can arrange something. All the best, -Liam
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Comment by Lynda Kelly on June 17, 2009 at 11:11pm
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Cool. Thnx Liam and hope we can work together on the backchannel. From our other discussions about conferences we felt the web component was really undervalued. Our discussions are on the Westmuse blog as well as here on Musuem 3.0.
My challenge to you! What will our hash tag be and will we blog it all on Museum 3.0 or somewhere else (of course my preference is here!).
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Comment by Liam Wyatt on June 18, 2009 at 2:51am
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The hashtag is #GLAM-WIKI and you can blog about it wherever you'd like! But, as you'll see on the registration info, we've suggested people come back to the Museums & Wikimedia group here for discussion.
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Comment by Lynda Kelly on June 18, 2009 at 8:01am
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Cool. am already tweeting!
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Comment by Lynda Kelly on June 23, 2009 at 12:34pm
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Here's a post from James Leventhal on the Westmuse blog that is very relevant to potential GLAM-WIKI attendees: Museums, New Media and the Triple Bottom Line
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