A day in the life of an exhibitionist at LIANZA 11

Well done local Committee and organising teams, you’ve clearly done a brilliant job – now it’s up to us!

Welcome to Wellington - 10 reasons to come and see us at Stand 23 in the MFC

A short blog about my experience staging a "Tweetup" Event in Wellington, including comments about the value of Social Media as a Business tool.

I’m looking forward to MA11 = Museums Aotearoa Conference in Nelson tomorrow.  The programme looks stimulating despite being spread over a few venues, and the fact that Speakers have presented in other cities has upped the momentum; generated anticipation.  I even heard a snippet about a presentation to the Nelson Provincial Museum of the personal journal of the Lord Auckland’s surgeon happening during the Conference – brilliant!  For me I will experience the usual personal conflict of being genuinely interested in the goings on inside the museums who endeavour to preserve our culture for future generations versus the opportunity to tell people what NZMS does – being a sales person if you will.  My usual philosophy is to enjoy the conference for all it offers – to the max – and hope I can enhance the experience of those around me accordingly. I’ve experienced 3D photography recently, and wonder if there is interest in the field from within the museum sector?  At the demonstration I could see the camera’s are...

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Here's an extract from a Forum I posted on the NDF Ning preaching the value of sharing, collaboration, helping and interoperability as well as calling for input on what YOU would like in the TENTH NDF Conference next year (29-30 Nov 2011).

Please give me your thoughts AND visit the Ning for more detail:

http://ndf-aotearoa.ning.com/forum/topics/ndf2010-ndf2011-lets-get

Hi everyone - Museum and Iwi Development Grants Closing date is 30 November 2009 at 5pm.

That's TODAY!!!  Hope you have it in hand...

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/NationalServices/HowWeHelp/Pages/MuseumIwiDevGrants.aspx

Good luck...

Andy Fenton