Is a bit passé to blog these days? Maybe, but it does give me a place to share some ideas.
Featured posts
A few of my better thoughts:
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10 ways to improve the situation for arts marketers
Arts marketers in Australia are undervalued, underpaid and overwhelmed. To improve arts marketing change at every level of the arts is needed: from arts marketers themselves, from their managers and from arts leadership.
Other blog posts
A few other thougths that I’ve had lately:
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Reflecting on the launch of the TAROCH Coalition
The TAROCH Coalition – a community of cultural heritage organisastions adovacting for a UNESCO Recommendation of access to cultural heritage in the Public Domain – has been launched.
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The Content Credentials pin looks like the Creative Commons icon
AdobeSoz! @elliottbledsoe hasn’t gotten to this term yet!
is pushing for content transparency but the Content CredentialsA content label and verification process created by Adobe for disclosing information about content. Learn more → pin is too similar to the Creative Commons icon if you ask me. -
Areas of focus for Wikimedia Australia going forward
Growing free knowledge, striving for knowledge equity, improving governance, and celebrating the community should all be part of the organisation’s future in my opinion.
Weekly reading lists
Things I have been reading each week:
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(Un)read in the ledger: Monday 4–Sunday 10 November 2024
Reports! Reports! Reports! I have read reports on engagement with public libraries, changes in Australian content consumption.
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(Un)read in the ledger: Monday 28 October–Sunday 3 November 2024
Two major research reports on Wikipedia (one about curiosity and rabbit holes and the other about Australian places reflecting a settler-colonial perspective). Also, finding common ground between Indigenous data sovereignty and open data and combating ‘open washing’ with an open source AIAI is tech and marketing speak for a range of technology that imitates human intellect. Learn more → Definition.