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Nik Honeysett

Nik Honeysett is Head of Administration for the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently serves on the American Association of Museum's Board of Directors. Prior to his current role, he managed the Getty's Web Group, responsible for all aspects of their main website and intranets. Since joining the BBC's Interactive Television Unit in 1988, he has spent his career developing or managing media and technical projects, now its people and money. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2000, he spent 12 years at Cognitive Applications, a UK-based consultancy building interactive kiosks, CD-ROMS, and websites for museums and galleries. His hobbies include writing short summary paragraphs about his career and referring to himself in the third person.

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Nik's Archive for December, 2011

To CIO, or not to CIO

An issue I’m currently struggling with… To CIO, or not to CIO – that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of mismanaged data Or to take arms against a sea of piecemeal information decisions And by strategizing, end them. To define, to plan – A CIO [...]

If (2.0)

If you can keep your tech budget when all about you, Are losing their’s; If you can trust yourself to implement Open Office when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their Microsoft Office; If you can implement a gestural interface and not be caught up in touchscreens; or surface tables. If you can [...]

Emma Chizzit?

I’m here in Philly at Museums and the Web #mw2011 and done with my presentation on the Transition to Online Scholarly Catalogues, paper’s here, if you’re interested. Although I briefly discuss it in my paper, for my presentation I made a bit more of the topic of economics in moving from print to digital – [...]

An Appeal…

An appeal on behalf of FrOME: Ignite Smithsonian, April 11th, 2011

My Blackberry Is Not Working

In case you missed it, something requiring a British SOH: And the link is here

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated…

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. – Del.icio.us, Dec 2010 You may have seen the news that the future may not be tasty for Del.icio.us. It doesn’t look like del.icio.us is going away, but its future seems certain not be on the Yahoo menu: Yahoo Claims It’s Not Killing Delicious OK, enough of the [...]

Three-minute Management Course

Courtesy of Elegant Solutions (UK) LLP, a three-minute management course. Lesson 1 of 5 A man is getting into the shower as his wife is getting out, when the Doorbell rings. She quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. She opens the door to Fred, the next door neighbour. Before she says a [...]

70,000,000

Just in case you missed this: click for the YouTube the link

Damn Interesting

Had to share. Just to prove the point that the museum world has its share of “spanners”, see this article. The title of the article says it all: Professor Is Getting a Camera Surgically Implanted in the Back of His Head. Yes really. Bilal will undergo surgery to have the camera implanted in coming weeks [...]

Father of the Bride

In my misspent youth I was a DJ, I had a mobile rig with my mate “Lucky Eddie” and weddings were our core business. We got a booking once for a really big event and we wanted to make it very “exciting”. For some reason “exciting” translated to “use theatrical explosives”. As you can imagine, [...]

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