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In a moment of constructive procrastination, I’ve migrated my site over from custom PHP pages to WordPress.  Lots of bits still to tidy up and move over, but it’s been a smooth process generally. It’s even been fun, and I think I can see potential for using blogging software as a kind of ‘living CV’ – I haven’t really updated my CV since 2005, but the occasional post about papers or project milestones should give the casual visitor an idea of my current interests and work.

Cosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang

A paper for Museums and the Web conference in Denver, April 2010. My slides are also available on Slideshare and below. As in 2009, I helped facilitate the Museums and the Web 2010 Unconference.

In December 2009 I was invited to Oslo to give a lecture on social media and museums, libraries and archives to the The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling) . The Opportunities and Challenges slides are online and below.

I curated a session relating to the UKMW09 themes of ‘The everyday web: situated, sensory, social’. I was particularly interested in investigating what we could learn from games and how that could be translated to interactions with museums. The conference was held at the V&A, London, on December 2, 2009.

I spoke on ‘Continued Communication: maximising your communications in a Web 2.0 world’ at the Online Information 2009 conference in London, December 1, 2009, presenting some of the research of the ‘Continued Communication’ research group with Elizabeth Lomas and Benjamin Ellis. Our paper is available in the published proceedings.

The article ‘Learning lessons from a decade of museum websites’ was published in Issue 3 of Museum Identity magazine and is also available online at Learning lessons from a decade of museum websites.

Site abstract: “Mia Ridge, Lead Web Developer at the Science Museum, on learning the lessons from a decade of museum websites and the opportunity to look at the organisational changes museums might face as both the expectations of their audiences and their own working practices have been influenced by their interactions online”.

The Melbourne cultural heritage pecha kucha evening was organised through the Museum 3.0 online community and held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) on July 16, 2009. Museum pecha kucha, Melbourne slides online and below as usual, but this time they contain my notes.

Shelley Mannion organised the first museum pecha kucha night, held at the British Museum, London, on June 18, 2009. I blogged my writeup of the talks and these are my London museum pecha kucha slides. The evening was a good chance to take the MW2009 ‘do one thing‘ challenge a little further.

This was a ‘lightning talk’ at JISC’s dev8D ‘developer happiness’ days held in London in February 2009. The slides are downloadable and I’ve put a transcript on my blog.

This was a case study for an MLA London Workshop on ‘Web 2.0 and Social Networking for Museums, Libraries and Archives’, held in London on July 14, 2008.