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Category: Museullaneous

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Museums and Web 2.0

Notes and links for a Masterclass I'm teaching on March 24, 2010, for University of Technology students.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 24 Mar 2010

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Visitors to the Australian Museum use social media

According to our latest visitor research conducted in January 2010, 57% of people that visited the Museum used a social networking site in the previous six months.

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

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ANZ Public Sector Summit 2010

Attending this two-day conference with a bunch of government folks to discuss all tings open government, Web 2.0 and innovation. It is being co-hosted by CISCO and the Centre for Social Impact. Here’s my notes from today’s session.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 18 Feb 2010

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Statement on Climate Change

In its role as a leading scientific institution, the Australian Museum recognizes that climate change poses a serious environmental, economic and social threat to our current way of life and to the security of future generations across the globe.

By: Frank Howarth, Dr Robin Torrence, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 16 Feb 2010

Web to Classroom Workshop

Web 2.0 for small and volunteer museums

I've been asked to speak at the 2010 Australian Maritime Museums Annual Conference on the topic of Web 2.0 for small and volunteer-run museums. On this page you can find my PowerPoint slides and various other relevant links.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 14 Feb 2010

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New social media posts

Came across two recent interesting stories about social media I thought I'd share.

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

Kidspace

The MyMuseum Challenge

We invite you to participate in the My Museum challenge this January.

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

Climate Change Postcard 3

What did visitors think about the climate change exhibition?

The Climate Change: our future, our choice exhibition was held at the Museum from May - August 2009. Two case studies gathered detailed feedback from teenagers; and an observation study was undertaken with general visitors to track how they used the exhibition and the total time spent. Here's a summary of our findings.

By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 07 Jan 2010

Solar Thermal Power Plant

The Editorials and Opinions blog

Welcome to the Australian Museum's Editorial and Opinions blog.

By: Brooke Carson-Ewart, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 20 Dec 2009

Great Barrier Reef showing coral bleaching

Fiddling while the Reef dissolves….

An opinion piece by Australian Museum Director, Frank Howarth A lot has been said lately about the impact of sea level rise on coastal suburbs, and on low lying coral islands, but there is a more insidious threat to coral islands than rising oceans.

By: Frank Howarth, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 17 Dec 2009