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About Me
If you would like to discuss any projects, feel free to:
Email: Mar@MarDixon.com
Phone: 07800 539065- Passionate about culture: ensure culture is accessible to all.
- Project Coordinator for international projects.
- Creator of international and world trending social media campaigns.
- Champion for the next generation: kids and young people.
- Defender of Libraries: creator of #savelibraries
- Wearable technology for culture and in society.
- Digital and Tech Enthusiast.
- Sharing knowledge.
I run/facilitate day or 1/2 day workshop based on:
- Remixing Museums
- Wearable Technology
- Digital Media
- Social Media
- Young People and Museums
Founder of several project
MuseoMixUK: A product from MuseoMix in France, MuseoMix UK will take place at Derby on November 7-9 with an open day 10th. Approximately 120 people from cultural, dev/programming/technical and visitor sector will come together to inspire, create, play with exhibitions using FabLab, digital and traditional resources.MuseumCamp: An unconference for people who like Museums to talk about issues relevant but not always heard at conferences. Museum Camp is being planned for 2014.
Teens in Museums: Addressing the needs of teens and young people internationally. They created the manifesto and supply all content for the website. On Twitter and Facebook also.
CultureThemes: Culture Themes is a multinational group of museum professionals. We exist because of our passion for promoting and preserving museums, libraries, galleries, and heritage properties worldwide. We run monthly hashtag events that allows venues and visitors new to social media interact with a fun and positive activity.
Run Ask a Curator Day on Twitter.
Additionally, I review institutions in addition to interviewing pertinent personnel as appropriate.
Specialties: Digital/Social media, Audience Development, Wearable Technology, International Cultural Sector, Teens in Museums, Guest Lecturer, MuseoMixer
3 responses to “About Me” 
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Dear mar, it’s great to meat you with this message! I just wrote a little post for my blog ( http://www.nouveautourismeculturel.com/blog) about your work concerning Teens, and I would love to have some photography of you. May you send it to my gmail adress, please?It would be wonderful! Sincerely Yours, Evelyne
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Thanks, you recently emailed a colleague of mine here at National Museums Scotland about your Instagram list. Very useful and I’ve now added National Museums Scotland to the list.
I also wrote this blog post recently about developing our account and thought it may be of interest for your research.
http://blog.nms.ac.uk/2016/08/19/national-museums-scotland-on-instagram/Kind Regards,
Hazel
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So impressed with Ask A Curator day on Twitter. It was amazing to see people all over the world interacting with local and foreign museums. So cool! Keep doing what you’re doing, Mar 🙂
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