G'day everyone,
I saw this new mailing list and thought to myself - "you know what, I would
like to subscribe to a new mailing list today - this looks like a good one!"
And so I did, and here I am.
What an amazing journey it has been... you wouldn't imagine beautiful things
I have seen in the brief period between discovering the mailing list,
subscribing, and writing this letter. But I must say that the highlight was
the automated email telling me what my password was and how to unsubscribe
if I wanted to. I think I will cherish that email forever :-)
But on to the boring stuff...
I'm guessing that if you're already on this mailing list then you probably
already know me. I'm Liam, the Vice President of Wikimedia Australia,
podcaster on Wikipedia[not very]Weekly, I wrote my thesis about how
Wikipedia and Academia need to learn from each other and I have recently run
the GLAM-WIKI conference in Canberra. Yes, I'm sorry, it was because of that
that we now all have to try to live with the word "glam" being used as a
noun.
My particular "thing" is liaising with the cultural sector (that is -
galleries, libraries, archives and museums) about how we can work together
to build sustainable relationships. That was the essence of the GLAM-WIKI
conference. But, I also do presentations to english teachers, to historians,
to copyright lawyers, etc. You can see some of my outreach-y stuff on my
blog:
wittylama.com/blog
So.... hello!
-Liam
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wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata