NC Digest 23 June, 2010

• British Museum Collaborates With Wikipedia – NYTimes.com
  The British Museum has begun an unusual [[??]] collaboration with Wikipedia, the online, volunteer-written encyclopedia, to help ensure that the museum’s expertise and notable artifacts are reflected in that digital reference’s pages.
• 9 ways to use Youtube in museums’ MediaMusea
  Good list of Youtube uses, which is useful because Youtube is almost barren for good museum content. It gets lost beneath the endless tourist videos.
• I’ll know it when I see it | Musematic
  Lots of advice from Nik Honeysett with handout from his workshop on careers. Including how he cuts down job applications.
• Museums Now: For Love Nor Money
  Necessity is the mother of invention. Or so we have been telling ourselves for ~2,357 years. This year, arts organizations and non profits are in a position to innovate . . .or else… How do these experiments in creating new economic models for supporting non-profits relate to how museums are thinking about financial sustainability?
  I think we will see more museums looking at an expansion of services into new areas, and experimenting with hub-and-spoke strategies designed to reach into the community in new ways, or acting as an umbrella, a producer, and a curator of people, events, and opportunities rather than keeping all of those functions in-house, and the creation of new membership/rewards plans and other ways to raise money.
• BBC News – In Full: The projects axed or suspended by government
  Stonehenge Visitor Centre: £25m
  Rollout of the Future Jobs Fund: £290m
  Libraries Modernisation Programme: £12m
  THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR
• The UK election: Don’t panic, be stoical and think radical | The Art Newspaper
  Asinine article from former advisor to Tory on Arts and Culture. Suggests "find your own money" as solution. Also, "And, can we any longer avoid deaccessioning, if acquisition funds are now empty and museums have to fund acres of storage for third-rate pictures?"
• The Attic: Every little helps
  I promise (and I hope you will too) to have a cup of tea, put a few pennies in the donation box, or buy a little something in the shop EVERY time I visit a museum.
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  What can Ubimark do for you?
  Ubimark enhances physical reality (books, places, objects) with stories, travel experiences, ratings or information.
  » Ubimark Books. Paper books, such as “Around the World in 80 Days” are linked to the web through 2D codes.
  » Ubimark Tours. Locations throughout the world are annotated with information, tips, reviews, personal testimonials, which are delivered through an Iphone App.
  » The Ubimark atlas. This site is an online atlas for all the stories, information, or personal testimonials made available through the books or through the iPhone app. Information can be browsed by double clicking the markers on the maps. Each marker connects to a specific page and location. New information can be added to the books or to the iPhone tours by the users through this site. All you need to do is to create an account on this site.