Category Archives: presentation

Museum Crowdsourcing Games: Improving Collections Through Play (and some thoughts on re-inventing museums)

A presentation for the Inspiration Seminar on Digital Communications and Heritage (Inspirationsseminarium Digital kommunikation & kulturarv, #kulturwebb) at the Nordic Museum, organised by the Nordic Museum’s New Media department in collaboration with Mabb and IdeK lab. I’ve saved my slides … Continue reading

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Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections

My slides for ‘Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections’ for Museums and the Web, 2011 in Philadelphia, USA. They cover the material in my MW2011 paper, Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve … Continue reading

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‘Museums meet the 21st century’ – OpenTech 2010 talk

I gave a talk at OpenTech 2010 on ‘Museums meet the 21st century‘ – I’ve blogged my slides and notes. Museums meet the 21st century View more presentations from Mia .

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Cosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang

A paper for Museums and the Web conference in Denver, April 2010. Cosmic Collections: Creating a Big Bang Abstract ‘Cosmic collections’ was a Web site mashup competition held by the Science Museum in late 2009 to encourage members of the … Continue reading

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Social Media in the ABM (MLA) Sector: Opportunities and Challenges

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. … Continue reading

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Presentation: Bubbles, icebergs and Easter eggs – Melbourne Museum Pecha Kucha

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, … Continue reading

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Presentation: Bubbles and Easter eggs – Museum Pecha Kucha

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 … Continue reading

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Presentation: “Happy developers + happy museums = happy punters”

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.

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Presentation: “Web 2.0 in the Real World”

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.

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Panel paper: The role of the IT professional in a heritage institution

I was a guest speaker on a panel for a course in ‘Culture and Heritage Informatics’ at Kingston University, London, April 28, 2008. I have summarised some of the discussion on the Museum of London blog and on my personal … Continue reading

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