Hey Dominic,
Nice to have met you in person last week.
Would it be possible to have links to Ferriero speech & video on the GLAM site at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ? I can imagine that his quotation of that blogger, "If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States, it should be good enough for you" would be a strong inducement for institutions thinking of participating in GLAM activities.
All the best,
Bob
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks mcdevitd@gmail.comwrote:
The Wikimania people were nice enough to prioritize the editing of David Ferriero's closing plenary speech at Wikimania so that he could embed it in his blog post which was published today. As a result, it's actually the only official video from Wikimania available yet! See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E (blog posthttp://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=4298 )
I thought people on this list would be interested to view it, if you didn't get a chance to see it in person, and also to share and quote from it even if you did. It's all about putting our GLAM work in the context of ongoing trends in the cultural sector, and it was well-received by the live audience (though the cheering is a bit muted in the video). The full text will go up at archives.gov soon (herehttp://www.archives.gov/about/speeches/ferriero/index.html ).