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 […]

Making museum music…

An innovative digital artist is creating real time music through mobile phones allowing museum visitor’s  speech to bacome and instant part of an evolving exhibition. Now, there’s improving the visitor experience! more here: PLATFORM 3: Halsey Burgund, Scapes | deCordova  Part of generation Wiki and the democratization of knowledge, Burgund uses open source platforms, GPS technology, […]

hangingtogether.org: A resident Wikipedian

First wikis, then wikepdieans now wikipedians in residence… What are they and why do we want them?  Read why these libraries want some..hangingtogether.org » Blog Archive » Wanted: A resident Wikipedian.   and then why not search this blog site – using the tag wiki or wikipedia for  more enlightenment.

Spare place at Wikipedia Backstage Pass Event:18th Feb Black Country Living Museum

STOP PRESS:  Due to unforeseen circumstances there is now 1 organisational place available.  Wikipedia is the world’s largest, free, on-line encyclopaedia.  It contains over 17 million articles, written by over 91,000 editors.  It is one of the most powerful on-line resources for sharing information about your organisation. On the 18th February 2012, (10 am – […]

Be open with your content, not protective! Says HLF

HLF commissioned a review of participation and learning through digital media. Twenty-two case studies illustrating a wide range of approaches to using digital media to engage people with culture and heritage. some of the key findings are here… http://www.hlf.org.uk/aboutus/howwework/Documents/Digital_report_Sept2011.pdf Be open with your content, not protective, to encourage people to participate and contribute for themselves A lot can be […]

10 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes

1 in 3 adults now has a smartphone. So whatever the demographic of your audience (in person or virtual), investing time, thought and creativity into reaching them through their smart phone is probably a good idea. Surprisingly,  perhaps museums and heritage organisations look like being in the forefront of creative ways of using QR codes. […]

Tea, cakes and Accreditation: starting 2012 well

Well Network people, we seem to be hurtling towards the end of the year…it’ll be 2012 before we know it,  but before you all close up, hibernate or just get too busy with Santa events… make sure you put these in your diary for the new year.  Dates/events coming up in the New Year..Let’s start […]

Go forth and Wiki edit…

WIKI and QR codes… the ‘Something Wiki this way comes’ event last week was attended by over 30 eager, and not so geeky, museum peeps. Andy Mabbett enthused us, without scaring even the most web under confident person amongst us. Seeing just how incredibly relevant - and easy!- using and utilising wiki-media and QR codes is for museums led […]

Something Wiki this way comes… workshop 14th September

 “British Museum makes the Wikipedia connection; Collaboration provides route for cultural institutions to work with the world’s biggest online resource” (http://bit.ly/oWIDF6) If the BritishMuseum can do it, can we be far behind?   No,  ‘cos we’re there already!   You are invited to come to a special workshop session about making the best use of wikipedia, wiki […]