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Category: Museullaneous

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Who is the public? A talk by John Falk

Who is the Public? Research in Identity in Museums, a talk by John Falk, Oregon State University, 18 May 2010.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 19 May 2010

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The Museum's website and educational audiences

Participated in a panel session called Transformations in Experiential and Cultural Learning at the recent 2010 American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Conference. Here's the gist of my talk including relevant links.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 13 May 2010

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The dinner table

People love to sit around a table and share - whether it's a meal, a conversation over coffee, a bunch of papers to discuss, maps to pore over, photos to compare - we do this around a table. Why not at a museum too?

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 13 May 2010

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How do Sydneysiders use social media?

This is a further post on our investigations into how people are actually using social media sites. This outlines a very preliminary analysis of a survey of 1,000 Sydney adults aged over 18 years.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 12 May 2010

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How do Australian Museum visitors use social media?

Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 08 May 2010

School children participation in workshop

e-Kids' College November 2007

This is a blog post from November 2007 about our e-Kids’ College that was on my old blog. I have reproduced it here as people have been asking for it!

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

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Museums and the Web Conference 2010

Links to papers and online summaries from the 2010 Museums and the Web Conference.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 27 Apr 2010

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Smartphones and open content – emerging trends

Smartphones are changing the face of journalism and open content is changing the nature of education – what does this mean for providing museum content on demand?

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 25 Apr 2010

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Are we addicted to social media?

A new study from the International Center for Media & the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland suggests that we are.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 25 Apr 2010

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Australian Museum Visitors: hobbies and interests

What other interests, hobbies, group memberships etc do our visitors have??

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 26 Mar 2010