‘What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog?’ has been a question that has been bouncing around for a few weeks. Our Great Wall of China exhibition closed a few months ago and with it our Dragon & The Pearl blog. The dragon blog was always conceived of as an experiment [...]
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What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog? The end of Dragon & the Pearl
May 13th, 2007 Comments Off
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More on levels of participation / Forrester’s “social technographics”
April 23rd, 2007 1 Comment
In a most timely fashion for our recent discussions of ‘levels of participation’, from Forrester’s comes the ‘Social Technographics‘ report. This is a very interesting and relevant report to all the museum sector. It breaks down user-types into several categories and then maps the differing proportions of each category as represented across different social media [...]
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Powerhouse Museum’s official blog policy – April 2007
April 23rd, 2007 11 Comments
Many museums have been asking about blog policies. Our Executive has recently signed off on a museum-wide blog policy and so I’m happy to be able to share ours with you. The policy document is presented as a series of points to make it a little more readable, and overall the intention has been to [...]
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M&W07 – Day three: Radical Trust – State of the Museum Blogosphere
April 14th, 2007 5 Comments
Jim Spadaccini and I have just finished presenting our mini-workshop surveying the museum blogosphere. The detailed results are online at Archimuse, and the slides including updated data are available here. (update – Nate at Walker Art has posted some discussion of the q&a at the end of the presentation)
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M&W07 – Day two: Web2.0, EyeLevel, Brooklyn Museum, Science Museum UK
April 13th, 2007 2 Comments
The Web2.0 stream began with Jeff Gates from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s EyeLevel blog. Discussing EyeLevel, Gates explained their cautious but highly successful approach to getting blogging activated within a large and venerable organisation like the Smithsonian. Before gong public EyeLevel was used internally for two months with sample posts and comments within SAAM [...]
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M&W07 – Other workshops: mashups and blogging
April 12th, 2007 Comments Off
M&W07 is already causing timetable clashes! Running simultaneously with my workshop were many other excellent workshops. Two colleagues have posted their workshop slides and notes online as well. The team at Walker Art Center ran their Beyond blogging: is it a community yet?. They have posted some rather extensive and excellent notes for their session [...]
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Museum blogs survey results online / San Francisco blogger meet-up
March 31st, 2007 Comments Off
Museums & The Web has published the survey conducted by Jim Spadaccini and myself earlier this year titled Radical Trust: the State of the Museum blogosphere. As 2006 began, there were less than thirty known museum blogs; since then, that number has more than doubled. Today there are well over 100 blogs exploring museum issues, [...]
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What museums might learn from how news organisations are trying to engage communities
March 26th, 2007 1 Comment
This week’s essential reading comes in the form of the Center for Citizen Media’s report titled Frontiers of Innovation in Community Engagement: News Organizations Forge New Relationships with Communities. The report is written for those who are yet to become interested in the new opportunities afforded by Web 2.0 and contains plenty of global case [...]
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Towards an ROI measure of museum blogging
February 18th, 2007 4 Comments
Museum blogging is taking off. Jim S and I have been talking a lot about how blogging is an efficient way of generating a buzz around your museum’s content. At the Powerhouse Museum our flagship blog is really the Sydney Observatory’s blog. It has been charting ludicrous traffic – it now represents over 60% of [...]
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