I flew into Houston, Texas yesterday for the 21st Annual Visitor Studies Association conference. This is my first time in Space City, as well as the Lone Star State, for that matter. This morning, I presented a workshop with Jes Koepfler, a fellow Museum Studies grad and my “partner in crime” on the Mischief & Malice: Crime in the Museum online exhibition project (we co-managed this project put together by the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies Class of 2008 using a wiki). Appropriately, we presented Using Wikis for Project Management.

The deadline for submitting a program proposal for American Association of Museums, Media&Technology 2009 Philadelphia (April 30-May 4) is approaching quickly. For Media&Technology endorsement, the deadline is July 11, Friday, 2008.

 David and i are delighted to announce that Nick Gamble has joined Archives & Museum Informatics as Conference Manager.

A recent graduate of the University of Toronto's Museum Studies program, you might remember Nick as a volunteer at MW2008 in Montreal.

As well as working on future Museums and the Web conferences, Nick will be helping out with the manaement of our 1275+ member on-line community at http://conference.archimuse.com, adding to the on-line bibliography of cultural heritage informatics sources, and putting more of our past publications on-line.

For those who are interested in social tagging, or who might have missed the Community Engagement session at MW2008, I have uploaded my slides "Seeing Tibetan Art through Social Tags" along with audio track to Slideshare:

http://www.slideshare.net/s.mannion/seeing-tibetan-art-through-social-tags/

Hi all, have been posting my notes to my Audience Research blog

I had some excellent conversations today at the Exhibitors Reception about Twitter and its application in the arts field.

Personally, I think Twitter is best used in conference settings, so I was hoping people could comment here and share their Twitter usernames so we can all follow each other during the conference and beyond.

My Twitter name is BStephenson. Follow me and I'll return the favor!