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How to be clever on Facebook

For the most part, coporate/museum Facebook pages are pretty much the same: conversations among visitors or inserted opinons. However, there are those out there that are coming up with clever ways of engaging with their audience, you just have to do a lot of sifting. How could we apply these ideas to our Birds of Paradise exhibition currently in development?

By: Category: Museullaneous, Date: 27 Aug 2010

School children participate in workshop

How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 2 - the day

The second post about designing an exhibit. Twenty students and their teachers arrived on 23 August to help the Museum design their up and coming Birds of Paradise exhibit. What a wonderful day for all of us! Read on to find out what happened during the workshop.

By: Category: Museullaneous, Date: 27 Aug 2010

School children participation in workshop

How would you design an exhibit? Meeting Part 1

Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.

By: Category: Museullaneous, Date: 27 Aug 2010

The Ashford family at the museum

Value Packaging for Families

Families have a lot to consider before making the final decision to go to a museum. How do they make this decision? Why do they make this decision? The current strategy to appeal to an audience is by creating a two-way conversation between museum and visitor; however, this may not necessarily be the highest value held by families. This post summarises some recent writings on value, as well as what research has revealed to be missing from the value conversation - the family unit.

By: Category: Museullaneous, Date: 26 Aug 2010

Pacific gallery feedback

Pacific Cultures Consultation June 2009: Emerging themes

As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students; one with primary school students and their parents; and a fourth with adults. This post summarises the main themes/ideas that emerged.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 10 Aug 2010

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What’s in a Name? Evaluation of exhibition titles

Tips on how to evaluate potential titles/names for exhibitions. Elements of this article first appeared in 'Visitor Behaviour', Fall/Winter, 1997, Numbers 3-4, Page 32

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 04 Aug 2010

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Working with NOVA Employment

NOVA is a Disability Employment Agency, funded by the Australian Government's Department of Employment & Workplace Relations. The Museum has been actively working with NOVA since 2005 and here's what we've been up to.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 29 Jul 2010

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What is Foursquare?

A passing fad, yet another social networking site to annoy us or is there something to Foursquare?

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 05 Jul 2010

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Smithsonian Commons Prototype

The Smithsonian Commons is doing more than "... enabling discoveries. It will make possible new fields of discovery". What is the Smithsonian Commons and how will this be made possible?

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 05 Jul 2010

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Kids and credibility in the online world

What do children think about the credibility of information they find online? A new report from MIT Press gives answers.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 22 Jun 2010