The decision to blog!

In 2010 I was invited to write a post for the Outreach Blog of Collections Australia Network (CAN). I had never written a blog before but it seemed like great publicity for our society and museum - so I readily accepted.

They were keen for me to write about:

• The development of our website
• Why our focus was so heavily on people
• How that focus fed back into our museum and its collection
• The reaction to online publishing and sensitive information
  

I attempted to incorporate all of these points into one blog post but failed quite miserably. I instead wrote four posts and decided CAN could use whichever ones they wanted (or all of them, should I have been so favoured!).

Timing was against us, or so it turned out. A few weeks after I e-mailed in the blog posts CAN had its funding withdrawn and ceased to operate.

Our blog posts? Unfortunately they never made it online. It initially seemed like a bit of waste but not any more - as we now have our own blog! We will publish them here and then will start the task of writing a regular blog!