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  Tehmina Goskar 10:36 am on 5 August, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Blogging, Conservation (3)   

  New International Heritage and Conservation News blog 

  It seems like an age ago that I blogged about the use of the web, particularly blogging, to communicate better issues related to heritage conservation, particularly as it is a field in the broader heritage sector which is perhaps most shrouded in mystery. Communication has tended to be aimed purely at the professional with public understanding of conservation lower than it might be.

  ICOMOS-UK’s new website, based around a blog, is now live. After a marathon month of literally pulling up the hand-break on this web project and changing direction, a completely new and different approach was taken to help the organisation make the most of the web and its audience: quickly and all on a shoe-string [note: what on earth are 'shoe-strings' in this sense?] Without going into too much detail about the background to this, the original plan for a redeveloped website, overseen and directed by me, especially the creation of new content, but technically put together by a company who had promised to sponsor the project, fell through.
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  Benjamin Chesterton, Photographs of Brunel’s Structures at Past Thinking, and Tom Goskar are discussing. Toggle Comments

   
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    Benjamin Chesterton 1:00 pm on 5 September, 2008 Permalink

    Hi,

    enyoy this website with lots of solid thinking about heritage and communication which is really important but often gets lost along the way.

    This might interest you … its a audio slideshow that celebrates the heritage of Brunel. The photographer, David White, rebuilt the camera that was famously used to photograph Brunel in 1857 and then travelled around Britain photographing Brunels work … nuts but the photographs are really amazing .. its this kind of stuff that I think gives people a window into heritage. http://www.duckrabbit.info/brunel … more of our stuff can be seen at http://www.duckrabbit.info THANKS

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    Tom Goskar 1:24 pm on 5 September, 2008 Permalink

    Hi Benjamin,

    I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed some of our posts!

    Thanks for the link to David White’s photos – they really are amazing. I might mention it on here – fascinating stuff…

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    Benjamin Chesterton 12:06 pm on 6 September, 2008 Permalink

    Tom, thanks for your post and kind works.

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  Tom Goskar 2:49 pm on 13 February, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  National Museums Liverpool Blog 

  A superb example of how blogging can work for a museum (or any heritage organisation), is exemplified by the National Museums Liverpool blog.

  I visited it a while ago, when it was first set up, hoping that it would be successful. I’m always pleased to see bold experiments with technology in the heritage sector. I couldn’t remember exactly when the blog started (March 2006), so I flicked back in time using the calendar at the top right of the page. Days where content was posted are coloured orange, and I was very impressed to see that this was at worst one post per week. Some weeks went by with a post every day. Great work!

  I had a quick look at their blog rank in Technorati, and they’re doing rather well at 148,150, with 269 inbound links from 26 blogs. That’s soon to be slightly increased after I post this..

  They even have an account on Flickr.

  I wonder when they will become bold enough to enable comments though?

  Links: National Museums Liverpool Blog, National Museums Liverpool Flickr Photos

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    Alex S 8:02 pm on 22 February, 2008 Permalink

    I found the blog very useful myself.

    While it is not one of the easiest to use blogs (personally I do not like its format), it is a very useful one. It is at utmost importance for museums to have up to date information, especially this year when Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture.

    Alex

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  Tom Goskar 11:39 am on 14 June, 2006 Permalink | Reply  

  On Boundaries 

  Just a quick note to alert people to a new blog called “On Boundaries“. It’s run by a duo consisting of a theoretical physicist (reivers) and a medieval scholar (gesta), who will use the blog to explore the boundaries that are arbitrarily drawn between the two approaches to understanding the world.

  There’s not much on there at the moment, but I love the idea of people teaming up to look at interactions between such different subject areas. How different are they really?

  The point of the title reflects the differences between the authors. reivers is a scientist, of very theoretical bent. gesta is a medievalist, perfectly happy with the description of “mathematically challenged”. It’s often said that there is a boundary or a dividing line between the two approaches. We shall see how much it comes across. More importantly, I hope that we’ll see how much of that boundary is really artificial.

  From: http://border.wordpress.com/2006/06/11/beginning/

  Good luck to them, I for one will stay subscribed and see what happens…

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