Museum Musings & Other Things
This post originally appeared on the Scottish Museums Federation blog in October 2019. You know the drill by now. September rolls around and we quickly are whipped into a social media frenzy with realisation that #ScottishMuseumsDay is less than a month away! https://twitter.com/ScottishMuseums/status/1171453427588534273 By our fourth year, (yes, fourth. No, really!) we'd become a dab … Continue reading Scottish Museums Day: Vol IV
This blog also appeared on 9to5Adv, a blog site dedicated to adventuring away from the 9 to 5 routine. The NC500 has been described as the ultimate road trip. 500 and a bit miles around Scotland, starting in Inverness, and depending on what way you go working your way up the east coast, across the … Continue reading North Coast 500 – Part I
Outside of museums, my personal interest is quite simple. I enjoy LEGO and I enjoy videogames. I was raised on Nintendo growing up with NES, SNES, N64 and when I was old enough, buying a Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. I've also owned Gameboys, DS', 3DS', Playstations and Xbox's. I would describe myself … Continue reading Design / Play / Disrupt
This blog originally appeared on the Scottish Museums Federation blog post in October 2018. For the past two years I've taken the lead on developing and managing #ScottishMuseumsDay. In it's third, we as the Fed decided to take our learning from year 2, and implement them into year 3. With #ScottishMuseumsDay 2, we left … Continue reading #ScottishMuseumsDay 3
In November 2017, Museums Galleries Scotland asked me to deliver a talk at the Nationally Significant Collections Meeting on using social media at Surgeons' Hall Museums. The following blog post is an amended transcript of the talk I delivered. Surgeons' Hall Museums, for those of you who don't know has been open to the public since 1832 … Continue reading Good Social (Media) Practice
In 2017 as part of Festival of Change, I put forward a proposal to interview different museum and heritage professionals at the Museums Association conference in Manchester and record them for a podcast. This was done as part of the Museums Association Transformers Influence programme. With the proposal, I aimed to source content from my … Continue reading SoapBox – A Transformers Podcast
Bringing #ScottishMuseumsDay back for its 2nd year. Preparing for 2017 How do you repeat past successes? Do you go bigger? Do you go smaller? Or do you try and replicate what you had done previously? In 2016, I oversaw the first #ScottishMuseumsDay. October 3rd was picked as the date, which had absolutely nothing to do … Continue reading Scottish Museums Day – The Difficult Second Album
