Gareth de Walters,  Zoë Richardson and  Rebecca Loud: Our collective connections through #OneThread
Channel: NDF - National Digital Forum
Date: 17/10/2015

Day 1 of NDF 2015, 2.30pm Tuesday 13 October 2015

#OneThread is a collaborative social media project, a game created to highlight the richness of, and connections between, the collections of New Zealand’s memory institutions. The spot-the-common-thread game is coordinated by Auckland Museum in collaboration with Te Papa, Waikato Museum, Nelson Provincial Museum, along with an expanding network of regular and guest contributors. The game revolves around GLAMs posting collection images accompanied by brief, sometimes cryptic clues to their Twitter accounts, encouraging online visitors to become active participants in the collection discovery process.

This presentation will demonstrate ways of engaging audiences online, initiating cross-sector collaborations, and selecting the right digital tools to synthesise, publish, and promote content.

Gareth de Walters is the Digital Content Production Manager at Auckland War Memorial Museum, where he works across teams to produce collection-led content. He has worked in technical and content roles for web hosts, the British Film Institute, and the University of Auckland. @gdewalters #OneThread

Zoë Richardson is the Assistant Librarian at Auckland War Memorial Museum, responsible for licensing and supplying images of the collections both internally and externally. With a background in Medical Science and cancer research, Zoë fell into the GLAM sector and hasn’t thought about going back to lab coats since.

Rebecca Loud is the Pictorial Librarian at Auckland War Memorial Museum, where she manages the Museum’s vast painting and photography collections. In her previous GLAM work she has held positions at Te Papa, Museums Wellington and Katherine Mansfield Birthplace.