Adventures in Neurohumanities
The Nation • 7 May 2013 Just add "neuro" and stir. Intensified interest in neuroscience, coupled with increased funding, is spawning new research into how the brain reacts to art and literature....
View ArticleIt’s Not 1995 Again–Why the Threats from the New Big Players May Be Much More...
The Scholarly Kitchen • 7 May 2013 Not so fast. Despite its wholesome aura, open-access publishing has drawbacks, says blogger Kent Anderson. When corporate or government entities back their own...
View ArticleA Community of the Arts
WDAV 89.9 is a public radio service of Davidson College broadcasting in the Charlotte area, and reaching beyond, through ibiblio’s Internet streaming service. Along with a rich array of classical...
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Engagement analytics and lifelong engagement in museums
Does a repeat visitor to your museum have more value than a unique visitor? How often does someone have to visit your museum to be considered loyal or ‘repeat’? How do you know whether people are...
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NERC and TSB join forces to encourage reuse of environmental data
A series of workshops are being held around the UK from July until September to drive collaboration on a forthcoming NERC/TSB funding call "New Business Solution from Environmental Data." This will...
View ArticleMore of Omeka in more languages!
Top translations: omeka » core The Omeka core has been localizable for some time, and the hard-working and dedicated volunteers at Transifex have made it possible for you to use Omeka in a number of...
View ArticleIs This Tech Necessary?
I often have a fraught relationship with how technology, especially digital technology, gets used in museum exhibits. The devices we choose so often seem to overpower the messages they are presenting....
View ArticleConcierto: Spanish and English Classical Programming
Concierto is the first nationally distributed bilingual classical music program. Produced by WDAV out of Charlotte, North Carolina, Concierto is carried by over 20 public radio stations across the...
View ArticleDigital Engagement Framework, looking for case studies and feedback
In May of last year Jim Richardson and I presented the Digital Engagement Framework as a tool to structure thinking about digital engagement in organisations. We published a free booklet to help...
View ArticleTweaking and Testing the RFID System
OCR Canada was on-site this week at SA: Western performing "tweaks" to the install of our RFID system. Every box of archaeological material held at the Sustainable Archaeology facilities will be...
View ArticleMetaphors Are Us
Nautilus • Issue 1 Feeling the pain. Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky's essay on humans' capacity to think symbolically explores the power of imagination to trigger physical response. Read on for...
View ArticleThanks (again) Dad!
Father's Day is a meaningful day for me, not only because I have four great kids, but because it gives me time to think about my father, Orlando Orselli, who died in 2001. My dad certainly helped set...
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On the paradoxes of empathy
Recently empathy has become a topic hot for discussion in museum circles. Whether in Gretchen Jenning’s expressed frustration that many museums struggle to respond empathetically to traumatic community...
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Bringing ancient Pompeii to Cambridgeshire children (and cinema-goers!)
The University of Cambridge Museum have been delighted to support the Civilizations in Contact project bringing ancient Pompeii to Cambridgeshire school children. Civilizations in Contact has been...
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#drinkingaboutmuseums – Sydney – Tuesday 9 July
Next Tuesday afternoon, George E. Hein, author of the seminal book Learning in the Museum and more recently Progressive Museum Practice, will be in Sydney to present on the future of learning and...
View ArticleWhat MOOCs and webinars can teach us about digital engagement
Photo by adesigna on Flickr. MOOCs and other digital learning and discovery tools are without a doubt one of the most exciting new opportunities the digital age offers museums. I can’t tell you how...
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House Guests at Kettle’s Yard
Kettle’s Yard is a beautiful house that contains a remarkable collection of modern art placed amongst domestic items and found natural objects, and was once Jim and Helen Ede’s home. … Continue reading...
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Computer Club awesomeness: An interview with IWM’s Carolyn Royston
One of the coolest ideas that I picked up at Museums and the Web this year was the Imperial War Museums‘ Computer Club; an “informal club for all staff that aims to provide a hands-on experience with...
View ArticleCollections Repackaging at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology
Over the last week volunteers and work study students at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology have been working to prepare the Museum's collections for transfer to Sustainable Archaeology. The work...
View ArticleGoogle Field Trip and “Free” Museums
Should all museums be "free"? That is, charge no admission to anyone who shows up at the front door? (And I don't mean the slightly bogus "pay what you wish" policy that many museums employ......
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