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Survey results: is it friendly or weird when a museum twitter account follows...

Last Tuesday, I asked ‘If you follow a museum on twitter, is it friendly or weird if it follows you back?‘ after calls from some quarters for #followavisitor #followamember or #MuseumsFollowYouBack...

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Join in the conversation about Wikimedia @ MW2010

Wikimedia@MW2010 is a workshop to be held in Denver in April, just before the Museums and the Web 2010 conference.  The goal is to develop ‘policies that will enable museums to better contribute to and...

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‘Game mechanics for social good: a case study on interaction models for...

I’ve been very quiet lately – exams for my MSc and work on the digital infrastructure for two new galleries (and a contemporary science news website) opening next week at the Science Museum have kept...

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What would you change about your workplace? A survey for museum technologists

[Update: I’ve shared the data] This week I launched a survey designed to help me understand and communicate the challenges faced by other museum technologists. It’s research for a chapter in a...

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Survey results: issues facing museum technologists

In August 2010 I asked museum technologists to take a survey designed to help me understand and communicate the challenges faced by other museum technologists (as reported in ‘What would you change...

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Design constraints and research questions: museum metadata games

Back in June I posted parts of my dissertation project outline in ‘Game mechanics for social good: a case study on interaction models for crowdsourcing museum collections enhancement‘. Since then, I’ve...

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Interview about museum metadata games and a pretty picture

I haven’t had a chance to follow up Design constraints and research questions: museum metadata games with a post about the design process for the museum metadata games I’ve made for my dissertation...

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‘Entrepreneurship and Social Media’ and ‘Collaborating to Compete’

[Update: I hope the presentations from the speakers are posted, as they were all inspiring in their different ways.  Bristol City Council’s civic crowdsourcing projects had impressive participation...

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If an app is the answer…

…what was the question?*  And seriously, what questions should museums ask before investing in a mobile or tablet app? First, some background. In We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all., Tom Loosemore of...

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These are a few of my favourite (audience research) things

On Friday I popped into London to give a talk at the Art of Digital meetup at the Photographer’s Gallery. It’s a great series of events organised by Caroline Heron and Jo Healy, so go along sometime if...

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