Nings and things!

Do you know about nings? They seem to be breeding at a great rate. Basically they are social networking sites for people interested in specific topics. You can just read things if you like or you can sign up and join in by asking for information/ideas or commenting on other people's projects. It's just a big love-in really.

I found this post about museums and education on Museum Australia's new ning, maNexus. You might also like to check out the Museum 3.0 Ning (although content seems to overlap substantially) and the CAN outreach blog which has some very interesting content.

Happy ninging

Caz

Who Shot Rock 'n' Roll Pt 2

You may remember I recently sent through a post about Brooklyn Museum's new photographic exhibition, 'Who Shot Rock 'n' Roll'. This is a follow up post showing how they cleverly intergrated new media into their public programs. Although the exhibition is about rock 'n' roll, the focus of the show is photography so they sent out a call for people to come along and take their own rock shots at a live gig set up by the Museum. Punters were then encouraged to upload their images to the Museum's Flickr stream and legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen viewed the work and commented on his favourites both on Flickr and on the Museum's blog.

This sort of program may well be quite manageable for us as it had a very definate start and end date lasting just four weeks. The set up was not that different from our AC/DC Back in Black Friday gig. Next time we could advertise the 'call to arms' on the flyer, we already have a Flickr account (although we haven't actually started using it) and we know lots of great photographers who might have been interested in being involved. Maybe we could try something for 'Women in Rock' - what do you think?

Caz