Industry Innovations
Storytorch promotes best practice in museum education and heritage communication, and below is a selection of links that will help you find some of the more innovative projects in the industry.
Storytorch intends to grow this list over time. If you know of a project worth listing here, for others to enjoy, please contact Storytorch.
Libraries fulfilling the information needs of the public in innovative ways:
State Library of Victoria's ERGO site, promotes study skills for students, and gives them a useful, bitesize and interesting view on history - www.slv.vic.gov.au/ergo
The National Library of Australia makes finding information the easiest way possible - www.trove.nla.gov.au
Centre for Youth Literature - makes reading cool for young people - www.insideadog.com.au
Bringing collections to the people:
Collectish was developed by Museum Victoria. Collectish helps you to organise your collections, share them with others and explore the private collections of the world - www.collectish.com
Play Art Loud - www.artbabble.org
Flickr Commons - The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.
Other Web 2.0 Innovations:
Red Bubble shows you how much talent lies in the community. Nice T-Shirts and a good alternative to Threadless.
Thinking outside the square:
The Fun Theory promotes some great people-inspired innovations. Like the piano stairs. Use this link next time you need to get a team to naval gaze about solutions to big problems.
Annie Leonard is a brave thinker. That's why she was able to capture all of the big ideas in Story of Stuff.
XPLANE are the authors of Did you know? videos. Well worth a lazy half hour of you tube time.
TED.COM - riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. So many to choose from, but I recommend at least these, among many more:
Consider interrupting your life for the planet, with these environmentally aware resources:
Composting is cool - AEROBIN
On Youtube - check out Greenman3610