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Candiru - careful where you go...
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/candiru-careful-where-you-go-/Over the years quite a few people have asked me about the Candiru. Is it really true that this fish can end up inside the bladder of an unfortunate person who urinates in the wrong stream?
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Do museum shops need to know about Web 2.0 and social media?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/do-museum-shops-need-to-know-about-web-20-and-social-media/Well, probably yes which is why I've been asked to run a mini-workshop on this stuff at the Museum Shops Association 2010 Conference on 9 September. If I was a museum shop manager what would I need to know about social media and Web 2.0? Find some answers and other resources on this page
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Common and Standard Names
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/common-and-standard-names/Someone asked me about the difference between common and standard names. The video covers this topic and more.
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The exciting life of Anglerfishes
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-exciting-life-of-anglerfishes/Ichthyology Collection Manager, Mark McGrouther, talks about deepsea anglerfishes.
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Front-end evaluation: Pacific Consultations
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/front-end-evaluation-pacific-consultations/As part of the front-end planning for a Pacific Cultures exhibition, four separate consultations with Pacific Island communities were conducted in June 2009 to inform the development of the concept brief. These were comprised of two workshops with secondary school students.
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Fantastic fish links from Pelagos
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fantastic-fish-links-from-pelagos/Ichthyologist, Adrian Flynn coordinates the Pelagos Email Group. His emails contain a variety of really interesting ocean realted news. He has kindly allowed me to repost this content. Some of the material presented is incredible! Thank very much you Adrian.
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What is Foursquare?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/what-is-foursquare/A passing fad, yet another social networking site to annoy us or is there something to Foursquare?
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The role of narrative in museum exhibitions
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-role-of-narrative-in-museum-exhibitions/Just been reading a review of several museums in an article by Amanda Lohrey called The Absent Heart in The Monthly, June 2010. Got me inspired to re-visit the work I did on narrative in my doctoral thesis, and here's some thoughts.
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USA Trip 2010: Impressions from a land far far away
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/usa-trip-2010-impressions-from-a-land-far-far-away/Been travelling in the States. First to Washington to present the George Brown Goode Memorial Lecture at the Smithsonian (talk titled How Web 2.0 is Changing the Nature of Museum Work), then to the American Association of Museums Conference in Los Angeles.
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Museum visitors and learning identities
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/museum-visitors-and-learning-identities/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.
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