IDEAS FROM AN AGM

At our 2011 AGM dinner we everyone for some ideas on future events or initiatives for INNZ. There was some creative thinking going on that’s for sure!

We’ve grouped the ideas into several headings and these are posted on our website and will also be trickling onto our Facebook page over the coming weeks. Now we’d love to hear more from you on what you’re favourite idea is and your suggestions on how to make it happen.

This could be volunteering to write an article, host a workshop or suggest someone else to run a workshop, provide names for us to contact, sending ideas on how to improve the website – or simply show your support for the thing you’d most like to see happen by sending us an email or voting on our Facebook page!

Workshop ideas

• How to interpret landscapes successfully
• Evaluation on ‘Stuff’ session/workshop
• Relating to iwi focused workshop
• Creative thinking workshop
• Workshop in Chatham Islands
• Project management
• Interpretive dance workshop
• Discussion time – structured, e.g. what has succeeded and what has failed – sharing mistakes.
• Workshop ‘theme’ music. And a suggestion box
• “Interpret this!” Challenge to interpret strange or unusual objects topics.
• Small regional group workshops on digital; actual hands-on stuff; cheap, simple ideas we can use;
• The role and application of new media in interpretation
• Suppliers
• Interpretation in the outdoors
• Interpretive writing-short, punchy signs--how to get to the 'guts' of what you're trying to say
• Working with challenging spaces/buildings
• Design concepts
• More detail on digital techniques, especially on low budgets

Article ideas

• How to interpret landscapes successfully
• Interp Food! Recipes, Interp style, Master chef e.g. KP’s Earth Dessert
• Editing tricks and tips
• Ask Ozzy
• Exhibitions about poos
• iPad or iPhone interp apps working well in NZ – examples of – we need more NZ iPad/iPone apps.
• I would like to know who is doing interp visitor response research and what/where the results are.

Network events

• Nude gatherings!
• Bus trip to Ecoworld – mystery shopper
• Field Trips!
• Member bring new member drinks nights
• Lotsa pechakucha, case studies, etc.
• More workshops other than at annual event/AGM

Network best practice

• Mentoring
• Work shadowing
• Internships/apprenticeships/collaboration
• Use other INNZ members for Peer reviews
• Notes from workshops on website
• Cater for non Facebookers on webpage
• Offer scholarships to smaller museums, to experience and draw on bigger organisations.

Network benefits

• Stipends for Aus Interp conference.
• Connect with university programmes
• It’s about networking! Back to basics! How can we improve networking.
• Value – top value is talking/networking with colleagues