Museum Visits – a live web thingy

OK this doesn’t belong in this blog but is too good for me to forget about it by posting it in the wrong place or no where at all.

Good, Form & Spectacle

This is a blog post by Phil Gyford, who helped me make a thing. I’ve been curious about a tool called sheetsee.js for ages, and we made a site to show you the museums we visit, and it’s driven directly from a Google spreadsheet! I find myself wondering if small museums might be able to use this simple tech.

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PHIL SAID:
George has been keeping track of the museums she’s been visiting in a Google spreadsheet and wanted to make it a little more visible, useful and attractive.

Sheetsee.js looked like it might be just the thing to help. It makes it relatively easy to use data from a Google Spreadsheet to make pages containing tables, maps and charts. One of the Sheetsee.js examples, Hack Spots, was along the lines of what we wanted, which was reassuring.

Within a day we’d got a quick single-page site up on Heroku…

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Social media cafe – The return again

I thought I’d let you know that I’ve had a meeting with a couple of colleagues and we’re thinking of returning SMCLIV to it’s rightful status as the go to event for all things digital. SMC was never just about social media but about how digital developments were changing the way we work, live and think. Looking back on the subjects we covered over the years Open data, Big data, Mapping, walled gardens, Crowd funding, IOT, maker spaces, Journalism in a digital age and how digital is affecting working practices. That was a lot to cover with some interesting talks, speakers would travel to speak to our audience!!!

So the return. It’s going to be coming sooner rather than later but we’re going to need you to get involved even if it is just to sign up to the mailing list so we can ask you what you think.

http://defnetmedia.us2.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=1475637e9811bfc24e4918eec&id=ddf4099dcd

Hopefully if all things go well we should see 4 events this year with the first in March hopefully entitled “Internet of people” but we’ll tell you more about that as time goes by.