This is a good thread. I think I'd go with Mike. There's a view
that exposure alone is important and addresses that audience
segment. All the evidence seems to point to activity within the
rules of the medium being the attractor. For example, twitter
[www.twitter.com] works if u want to regularly post one-liner updates
but is hopeless for a static description. Scratch [scratch.mit.edu/]
lets kids learn and share and re-develop programmed "games" by
providing the client to build and take apart the games and the means
to share...
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On 2 Jul 2007, at 17:24, Ellis Mike wrote:
> Interesting thread, although surely asking ~what you're trying to
> achieve~ as an institution on Facebook is the most important question.
> This in turn determines exactly how you approach the site.
>
> I'd suggest (I could be wrong) that a *lot* of the Facebook experience
> happens *inside Facebook* (certainly this is my experience of it).
> This
> is one of the reasons why the opening up of Facebook applications to
> developers is so powerful.
>
> Maybe museums would be better off developing some simple Facebook
> apps -
> for example to let users search (and use) their images. See
> Photobubbles
> as one simple idea (http://apps.facebook.com/photobubbles) - if you
> let
> users add captions and bubbles to a selection of images from your
> collection you'd be immediately capturing a young and viral audience.
>
> Just creating a group "Museum of ****" probably wouldn't cut it,
> except
> with the same old audience you already had, or people you already work
> with...
>
> cheers
>
> Mike
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> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> David Salmon
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> Dear all,
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> This morning I was asked to set up a Facebook account for our
> organisation,
> the Public Catalgoue Foundation. I have a personal account with
> Facebook,
> but I would like to know if anyone has setup or thought about
> creating a
>
> similar account for their organisation and what your own
> experiences/concerns/problems/successes etc. were.
>
> In case you are unaware of the project, we are publishing a series of
> county-by-county catalogues that feature reproductions of oil
> paintings
> in
> publicly-owned collections across the UK. In the not-too-distant
> future
> we
> will be publishing all the catalogue paintings on a free website
>
> I believe that my superiors wish to use Facebook to attract a younger
> audience and raise our profile with more web-savvy people as a step
> towards
> the online PCF in a few years time.
>
> There are obviously hundreds of issues that this raises, but I would
> like to
> know if anyone has setup or thought about creating a similar
> account for
>
> their organisation and what your own
> experiences/concerns/problems/successes
> etc. were before I create an Facebook account for our organisation.
>
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