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[Rhiannon Looseley's blog] My dissertation was on Museum Wikis and cemented my decision to try and continue a career in museum websites. The views expressed here are my own rather than those of my employer.

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[Untitled] Implementing an internal wiki - Dan Collins on the Powerhouse’s ...: I hadn’t personally spent a lot of time using the editing features of wikis prior to using Confluence, so a bit of time was spent in understanding how it all fitted together. During this time it became that clear that the wiki model addressed a number of the issues we were struggling with in IT across the Museum - overuse of email, duplication of data on our file servers and in email, and a complicated and onerous corporate document management system.

[Untitled] Frankie Roberto - Talking museums and wikis at MW2009: I worked on the Object Wiki whilst at the Science Museum, and together we’ll be comparing our experiences and discussing how wikis can be a ”˜disruptive’ addition or a replacement to traditional museum object management and web content .

[Untitled] Internet tells Former USAF pilot home of his old plane: Museum of ...: Internet tells Former USAF pilot home of his old plane: Museum of Aviation (Macon Telegraph). Posted by G Allan Roberts on 29 Dec 2008 at 12:15 am | Tagged as: Internet Marketing. The Internet has become a great place for unexpected ...

[Untitled] N.V. Yalumba Muscat Museum Reserve (Australia, South Eastern ...: The funny thing is the image conveyed by the label, which describes "small parcels of wine from our museum" being released. I giggle when I think of patrons wandering dimly lit hallways looking at small 375 ml bottles on display in a "museum".

[Untitled] GotPoetry.com > > Art Museum at the University of Kentucky to show ...: Motherwell came to art through studies in philosophy and literature and was particularly interested in symbolist poetry. He was intrigued by the idea that visual artists could use abstracted forms and color to evoke the emotions associated with their chosen subject matter rather than creating a visual facsimile of the subject itself....

[Untitled] re: Museums: on Anachronisms and Plastic (John Heelan, UK) | World ...: Some years ago my wife and I were doing research in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts on our collection of 18th-19th century Staffordshire Blue-White transfer ware (”flow-ware” in US terms).

[Untitled] ExhibiTricks: The Green Museum: An Interview With Sarah Brophy: What I’d really like to do, too, is start a membership roundtable where a dozen or so museums banded together to learn together about green, and to implement new practices while sharing what they learn. It’s so hard to spend the time to research options, and test them, why not have a group that designates a green advisor who will do the research for you, then the group can test the ideas they like and share the results?

[Untitled] | Media museum matth.org: XML RSS 2.0 feed for these comments. This entry (permalink) was posted on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 at 8:25 PM by Matt Hampel and categorized in foreseeable future, space, wiki, media, library, community, web. ...

[Untitled] Art & Love In Renaissance Italy; Met Museum 'Til February 16 ...: The figures are rich in kitsch, which (if that's not your thing) could be a pain. But let me tell you about another reasons to press the flesh at the Met.

[Untitled] ”˜Twas the Night before Christmas, cruising style ...: Written by Alan Fox, with appreciation and apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, author of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.

[Untitled] Vale George Oates: Fresh+New is a blog primarily written by Seb Chan at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. The purpose of the site is to act as a repository and sounding board for discussions around digital media and its use in museums.

[Untitled] The 1683-4 frost fair « Mercurius Politicus: I was supposed to be searching for early modern satirical prints on the British Museum “flat art” database, but looking at the freezing Cornish landscape outside my window I got distracted and ended up searching for winter scenes.

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