Good points Rick
I wonder what people think about approval and vetting though? Does that take
place for marketing or branding reasons, or curatorial or legal reasons? Of
course, all output (from website, blog and Facebook) needs to be appropriate
in legal and museological aspects, (and insured) but it seems that in some
cases, these barriers are used as excuses by upper echelons of management to
prevent any sort of SN use. Surely counter productive if they manage venues
with poor online provision?
JP
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Subject: Re: Do any council run museums have blogs?
Interesting points made about 'friendlier' and 'normal' spaces, Jon.
Our take on the difference is that our main web site is approved, vetted,
and hosted by our parent local authority. As such it is a more formal and
official communication channel. With Facebook we can be more informal and
conversational.
We see it as being the difference to speaking to the public as a
representative of the museum and council, and having a relaxed chat with an
individual and any passers by who want to join in.
Whether we will merge the approaches into one entity over time will be both
interesting to see and do.
Noting what you say about CMS driven systems we did consider using the
Wordpress system. We decided not to for two reasons. One was the time it
would take to create and administer compared to Facebook, and the other was
it could be seen as building an alternative web site to our existing council
provided one.
Regards
Rick
Digital Media Officer
RAMM
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