electronic museum

I present at various conferences, always about the web and what we do with it and usually about social media, innovation and that kind of thing.

If you’d like me to speak at something you’re organising, drop me a line by commenting on this page. I’m usually up for it

Coming up…

• At Online Information 2009, I’m doing a presentation entitled Collaboration 2.0 – real world examples, and what we learnt all about some internal tools we’ve built at Eduserv. That’s on 3rd December 2009.
• I’m doing a workshop together with Dan Zambonini at DISH (Digital Strategies For Heritage) in Rotterdam – 8th-10th December 2009. Our workshop is on the 10th and have chosen Museum in a day as our topic..
• Mashed Museum is coming up again at some point – date tbc.
• More BathCamp events!

Recent stuff includes:

• At the Institutional Web Managers Workshop 2009 (28th-30th July 2009) – I did a workshop with Tony Hirst entitled “Mashups round the edges“. Slides will be online shortly. I also did a presentation on the final day called Getting People Together. Slides are here.
• I did a talk on getting data out of websites (“Scraping, scripting, hacking”) at Mashed Library – 7th July 2009. My slides and background to the slides are here
• JISC content conference – 30th June-1st July – I gave a talk entitled “Don’t think websites, think data”, all about Machine Readable Data and why it’s important. Slides and blog post here
• On 8th April 2009 I presented at Ignite Cardiff #2. My slides are here
• I ran a 2-day breakout session at the 2009 UKSG conference in Torquay on 30th and 31st March 2009. Blog post and slides here
• CATCH conference keynote, 20th Feb 2009, The Hague: Why the social web is here to stay, and what to do about it
• Online Information, 04/12/08
  Presentation – What does Web2.0 do for us?
• Keynote at Kom je Ook (“Heritage Upgrade”), 14/11/08
  Presentation – If you love something, set it free
• Guest presenter at Cardiff Web Scene, 28/11/08
  I did a presentation entitled Newton vs Einstein – slides and overview are here

During Museums and the Web 2008, I did these:

• Workshop - Mashing it up: Why and How
  I’ll be running a workshop on the various data sources available to museums and helping delegates understand how to use these in a museum context.
• Workshop – Using blogs effectively in your organisation
  Together with Brian Kelly we’ll be examining some of the practical aspects involved when blogging from an institutional perspective
• Paper – What does Openness mean to the museum community?
  Another one with Brian where we’ll be looking at the notion of “openness” from a software, service and data perspective.

…and some selected highlights of museumy/webby stuff I’ve been involved in before that:

• Caught up in Web 2.0? Practical implementations and creative solutions for librarians and publishers
  Mike Ellis – UKSG seminar 23/11/07
  [Presentation]
  
• Web 2.0: How to Stop Thinking and Start Doing: Addressing Organisational Barriers
  Mike Ellis and Brian Kelly (UKOLN) – Museums and the Web 2007
  [Paper]
• Web2.0 – why Museums are scared and excited all at the same time
  Mike Ellis – UK Museums on the Web 2006
  [Presentation]
• Getting The Most Out Of Our Users…or…The Science Museum Lab: How The Dana Centre Lets Us Play
  Mike Ellis, Dave Patten, Dan Evans – Museums and the Web 2005
  [Paper]

I’ve started to post slides on my Slideshare space.