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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Over-Compensating

Over the past 6 months, I’ve noticed a lot of movement in the museum job market. After the painful budget cuts and “downsizing” of two years ago, I’m having a hard time understanding what’s going on. And its not just us, even though we have over 30 vacancies on our website. In particular it seems [...]

Magic

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. –  Arthur C. Clarke And so it is with Google Instant, Google’s latest search engine tweak which, not content with showing you the top ten words based on the characters you have typed so far, Ajax style, wants to actually perform the search while you are typing. [...]

Do Less With Less

(This posting is based on my presentation at AAM’s recent Technology, Interpretation & Education online conference in a session with Nancy Proctor. What’s that? You missed it? Shame on you, it was an excellent two-day conference. No worries, it was recorded. Check AAM’s Professional Development website). Smaller, cheaper, faster, better – The promise of technology. [...]

I’ll know it when I see it

I led a couple of Career Cafe sessions at AAM which were meant to be resume writing workshops, but I decided to do something different. Initially, the attendees were a tad annoyed (another session that isn’t what it says its going to be) but in the end I think they appreciated it. I’m skeptical of [...]

Had to Share

If you’re coming to LA for AAM you’ll be able to see the real thing but in a shameless plug, I had to share the next best thing. We’re opening a redesigned gallery featuring Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Click here to see the re-designed gallery. A focal piece of the sculpture and [...]

Hooray for Hollywood

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. – Fred Allen (You’re impressed I have a quote about conferences, huh?) And so it goes as we approach another AAM conference, this year hosted in my home town. I was trying to [...]

Jacket and Tie Required

After almost a year of discussions and planning, we’re ready to get back into the handheld business. It was a tough decision, but we have built this awesome app that is going to revolutionise the way visitors interact with our collection. Here’s the executive summary: In the same way that exclusive clubs refuse entry to [...]

Loren Ipsum

I admit it. I’m addicted to my Crackberry. I get a lot of emails and while my Crackberry may not be the status symbol that the iPhone is, its really good with Novell’s GroupWise email – (un)affectionately know as GroupWoes at my institution. Its not the enterprise RIM server that ensures my Crackberry is in [...]

Women’s Work

We’re deep in an application selection process for a fairly significant piece of software, so I’m enjoying myself immensely because its vendor demo time. I love vendor demos, they’re fascinating. When I attend successive demos for a particular application I increasingly focus less on the product and more on the people who have been selected [...]

Chrome Trailer

I have to share this “low tech” trailer for Chrome, just in case you haven’t seen it: