Warwickshire Museum’s tweeting Giant Irish Deer, @OisinTheDeer, has been voted Best Museum Mascot in the annual international Shorty Awards (http://shortyawards.com/). The Shorty Awards are a global initiative to engage Twitter users worldwide, recognising the best people and organisations in social media. Oisin was also nominated for two of the Shorty Awards’ featured categories, tying 15th […]
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Wikipedia Wanderings by WMids Museums: a showcase
Wikipedia is 12 years old! Over 600 english museums have a presence. Have you? Come and share some successes, and some wise words, with the growing number of West Midlands Museums who are showing off their collecitons and making a worldwide splash through the Wiki world Black Country Living Museum on the 4th March 2013 Are […]
Beginners guides: WordPress, Flickr,YouTube Twitter
Podnosh, our trusty local -and award winning – community empowerment people know a thing or two about social media for the social good.. they have just produced some practical guides. click here: http://podnosh.com/social-media-help/ These are not the only guides available on this site, or elsewhere- but try them out they may hit the spot..Why not go […]
Best Museum in Social Media – The Shorty Awards
There are some new categories in the Shorty awards – the international awards voted by users for social media use … you may see a few tweeps you recognise …go vote , go nominate… Best Museum in Social Media – The Shorty Awards.
#Ask a Curator is back!!! September 19th
update more than 120 UK museums taking part, 26 countries -some have even started a Twitter account so they can take part… go for it.. see here http://www.askacuratorday.com/about.html Yippee, the worldwide twitter trending phenomenon which was ‘Ask a Curator’ day in 2010 is back. On September 19th any person on Twitter can ask a direct question of […]
MuseumCamp takes off..
50 tickets for the UKs first MuseumCamp were snapped up within 2 days of their release. Two weeks later 50 more were released and again all taken within 48hours. This event is really hot! The final 50 will be released nearer the date of October 1st, but already the waiting list is filling up. We […]
Pop-ups, Tagging and Letting Go
The annual open meeting of the WestMids Museum Policy Forum is being held in partnership with the Archives Forum at Ironbridge on 16th Oct. New technology and ways of working are opening up museums, archives and libraries to ever more audience involvement in cataloguing and classification. Users can now set the agenda, make recommendations, develop […]
England’s first MuseumCamp
On October the 1st the country’s very first Museum UnConference is being convened in Birmingham. What is an UnConference? Well, see here, where it’s all explained, or in the meantime you could recall Humpty Dumpty who preferred to receive Un-Birthday presents rather than measly old Birthday ones. In short, it’s a forum for like-minded people […]
Barcelona, Miro and the QRpedia experience: Case Study
Fabulous ‘how to ‘ case study of using wikipedia, volunteers and QR codes to engage audiences and interpret collections…coming here soon folks – it’s GLAM, it’s GLAMWIKI http://theglamwikiexperience.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/qrpedia-use-at-fundacio-miro-case-study.html?m=1 ABSTRACT Following the exhibition of “Joan Miró. The Ladder of Escape” which opened in Bacelona on October 15, 2011, a collaboration between the Fundació Joan Miró (Joan Miró […]
QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator: dead simple
This super simple instant QR treasure hut tool is written for schools.. but what a great idea for temporary events, adult or children on your sites! QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator from classtools.net P.S. 1 in 3 adults owns a smart phone …hint, hint .
