Hi all
To follow on from Jon's email and take this discussion perhaps in a
slightly different direction, I'd be interested in hearing about any
examples of museums using (or planning to use) SN/web 2.0/UGC tools
specifically in a learning context in museums. I know many would argue
that everything museums do is learning (and I'd agree), but I'm coming
at this from the perspective of the 'online learning' person within a
Learning department and so I suppose I'm talking about examples that
specifically relate to schools/kids/families/adult learning.
I have some ideas, but would be very interested in hearing about any
specific examples.
Have a good weekend!
Thanks
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Looseley
e-Learning Officer (Web), Learning
Museum of London
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Jon Pratty
Sent: 16 January 2009 16:06
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Subject: Re: Do any council run museums have blogs?
This is a great thread, and one that is of current relevance to many of
us, I think.
At the moment I'm soliciting case studies, informal experiences and
wishes and desires from anyone in the sector who wants to use more
informal socially-inspired ways to interest with audiences online; it's
part of ongoing research commissioned by Renaissance West Midlands.
I'm looking into museum and gallery use of Facebook and other SN tools;
my early doors instincts are that smaller regional museums seem to be
turning to sites like Facebook, and to blog applications such as Blogger
and Wordpress, because they just can't get hands upon simple online
CMS-driven websites at a low cost. It's something we all need, and the
morphing of blog software like Wordpress into more conventional web
publication systems evidences some of these suppositions, I think.
What's interesting from this thread is how we seem to be perceiving the
blog space as being 'friendlier' than a conventional museum website. Why
does this have to be so? Surely if the same people that make the museum
website make the museum blog, it'll be infused with the same voice, and
have a similar user-appeal? Can the 'normal' museum webpage not be set
aside from, say, the collection pages and given a more user-centric
aspect? Maybe.
There's another interesting aspect to off-the-peg blog suites, which is
shared with Facebook; and that is that it's a much more connected,
tagged, tracked back publishing space. It must be a good thing if people
in the sector start to make pages and posts that then get tagged and
discovered in a much more connected digital place. We'll be learning
about curating the
meaning of our content more in this kind of digital landscape.
Enough from rainy Brighton; for my Renaissance research, I'd love to
hear more from any MCG members who are thinking about Facebook use, or
who have
user experiences from the front line of FB-land.
Jon
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Rick Lawrence
Sent: 16 January 2009 15:16
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Subject: Re: Do any council run museums have blogs?
Hi Perry
At RAMM we have decided to use a blog to present a more informal face of
the museum, and try to communicate with our public in a conversational
tone rather than the more formal tone of our official print and web
products. We also wanted the flexibility to respond to what people are
interested in knowing about.
We wanted to blog, post photos and videos, have people tell us about
their experience of events and the museum, and try to reach new
audiences. Given our limited resources in terms of staff time we decided
to use a Facebook page, using the notes feature for blogs, as it would
let us do all of this on one site instead of checking several.
We have a group of staff working on this to spread the work out, involve
our enthusiastic staff, and avoid it becoming part of one person's job.
We also want a variety of voices on the site. We used a Google site to
coordinate our work as we are spread across several locations.
Following approval by our management team in September last year we then
needed approval from three parts of our council: Audit, IT, and
Communications. Audit agreed promptly and I have a meeting arranged with
IT this month to agree security requirements and what IT resources we
need. I am awaiting a communication from our communications colleagues.
Whilst waiting to meet with IT and for communications we have used the
time to create initial content.
Feel free to contact me if I can help further.
Regards
Rick Lawrence
Digital Media Officer
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
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