Blogs

Digital Storytelling Workshop for Museum Staff - Apr 19-21st and Apr 22-24th in Denver - The Center for Digital Storytelling will be offering two different 3-day intensive Digital Storytelling Workshops for museum staff directly after MW2010 in Denver, CO.  These workshops will be lead by Mary Ann McNair, a seasoned digital storytelling facilitator who worked at the Colorado History Museum for over 25 years and helped implement digital storytelling into two exhibits at the museum.

After more than two years’ hard work it’s a great pleasure to be able to offer a first online version of the database of the Picasso Museum’s catalogue, with more than two thousand works.

Yes!!!  We have finally joined Twitter, the social network that we needed to complete the first phase of  our Social Media presence, launched in May this year. Some of you are maybe wondering, but, weren't you already on Twitter? And others may ask why weren't you? Or even , why are you now?

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Small archives represent the long tail of cultural heritage. Most of us are coping with inadequate resources available for addressing our primary missions, and lack the time, staff, skills, and other resources to address long-term access to that cultural heritage. This includes the challenge of locating and securing tools and resources to address the long-term preservation required to assure that access.

The recent get-together in Paris as part of the ‘Rencontres Web Musées’, on 16 October, was in the purest spirit of 2.0: informal and participatory and with plenty of substance supplied not only by the panel but by many of the delegates. The setting, the Louvre. The subject: Museums and Web 2.0. The content: let me give you a brief overview, and you can check out the presentations on Slideshare.

Emerging Convergence?Thoughts on museums, archives, libraries and professional training

J. Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics
[author's pre-print of article to appear in Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 24, no. 4, Dec. 2009.]

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We would like to invite you to the upcoming Semantic Web and CIDOC CRM Workshop on October 25, 2009 in Washington DC

For further details please see: 
http://www.semuse.org/index.php?title=Semantic_Web_and_CIDOC_CRM_Workshop

I'm interested in knowing how other museums - and other cultural institutions - are engaging their communities through social media technologies.

Are you?   

Help me gather benchmark data by completing this survey about what types of social media are being used by museums, how much time is spent on it and who in the organization manages this engagement.

Today is BlogDay again. Beyond many well known museum blogs such as Brooklyn, Tate Modern, IMA,Museum 2.0, etc. here are my 5 recommendations for this year's BlogDay:

Shortly after m MW Conference, back from Indianapolis, I wrote a report for my director, museum staff and other museums’ colleagues. It was even published on the Direction of Heritage of the Generalitat (Catalan Government) website, in Catalan. I thought I could have it translated into English as well, to share it with you. And so I did. And then, in the turmoil of everyday overload of work, I forgot about it. Oops. Putting papers and files in order before leaving for holidays, I realize now I never sent it. So, here you are.