That's a good point - and it seems to work.
We've tried asking people to use 'smlates' for tweets, photos, etc as
part of the online copy about the Science Museum lates, and the takeup
has been surprising even though we haven't had any signage in the venue
on the night.
cheers, Mia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Andy Powell
> Sent: 15 May 2009 12:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Asking the public to contribute on Flickr - what works?
>
> Hi Jane,
> I think it would be sensible to advertise a tag as well as
> the Flickr group. E.g. on your current Web page you could
> say something like:
>
> To submit a photo please upload it to the Flickr group and
> tag it with "museumsatnight09".
>
> Then at the end, change the wording to:
>
> All photographs need to be tagged with "museumsatnight09",
> the venue, date and category. Please tag any other material
> about Museums at Night events (e.g. blog posts, videos and
> tweets) in the same way.
>
> Doing so means that submitted photos can be more easily
> aggregated with other material about the events. I didn't
> see any explicit reference to a tag on the page - apologies
> if I missed it.
>
> Andy
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