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Museum Social Media Dialogue

As the social media explosion rolls on, more and more talk centres around the possibilities – and realities – of interaction, collaboration and dialogue. Now...

Augmented Reality in the Museum

In October 2010, a pair of somewhat mischievous new media artists staged a wholly 21st century intervention at the Museum of Modern Art in New...

What can social media do for oral history?

When I was four years old my father brought an reel to reel tape recorder home with him, it had been discarded at the place...

Introducing Ask a Curator

Please note: Info on Ask a Museum 2022 can be found here On the same day that Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, was published to...

How are museums using iPad’s

Even though it is still only a few short years since the introduction of multi-touch technology in the first iPhones, already we have become familiar...

RFID and it’s use in museums

Technology is often used by museums and galleries to create moments of interaction that encourage a deeper consideration of a collection or subject. At the...

Twitter for Museums in 2021

Last year Twitter received 3.92 billion visitors on average each month, making it one of the most popular social media sites. The micro blogging service regularly...

Creating a social media plan for a museum

The following is based on a presentation that I gave at Communicating the Museum in June 2009. The conference focused on Social Media and it...

Museums & Web 2.0

The following are notes for a talk I gave in July 2008 at an event called Bits2Blogs. The talk focuses on innovative ways that museums...