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Attended a talk by John Falk about identity and thought might be useful to post some of the literature I reviewed in my thesis about identity generally.

Second post about identity outlining what has been written about identity in the museum context.

My thesis investigated adult museum visitors'; learning identities. Here's some of what I concluded in my thesis about identity based on my extensive doctoral research.

People love to sit around a table and share - whether it's a meal, a conversation over coffee, a bunch of papers to discuss, maps to pore over, photos to compare - we do this around a table. Why not at a museum too?

Having found that Australian Museum visitors used social networking sites, how are they actually using these? Are they passive users or actively engaged?

Links to papers and online summaries from the 2010 Museums and the Web Conference.

Smartphones are changing the face of journalism and open content is changing the nature of education – what does this mean for providing museum content on demand?

A new study from the International Center for Media; the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland suggests that we are.

What other interests, hobbies, group memberships etc do our visitors have?

Notes and links for a Masterclass I'm teaching on March 24, 2010, for University of Technology students.

According to our latest visitor research conducted in January 2010, 57% of people that visited the Museum used a social networking site in the previous six months.

I've been asked to speak at the 2010 Australian Maritime Museums Annual Conference on the topic of Web 2.0 for small and volunteer-run museums. On this page you can find my PowerPoint slides and various other relevant links.

Attending this two-day conference with a bunch of government folks to discuss all tings open government, Web 2.0 and innovation. It is being co-hosted by CISCO and the Centre for Social Impact. Here’s my notes from today’s session.

In its role as a leading scientific institution, the Australian Museum recognizes that climate change poses a serious environmental, economic and social threat to our current way of life and to the security of future generations across the globe.

We invite you to participate in the My Museum challenge this January.