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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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Jane Finnis
Sent: 12 May 2009 11:53
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Subject: Re: Asking the public to contribute on Flickr - what works?
Hi everyone,
We are running as part of Museums at Night a Flickr project to create an
archive of photographs about the 150 events that are due to take place
this weekend all across the UK.
Basically, we are inviting anyone - the public or the venues themselves
- to help us create an archive of photographs of all the great stuff
that is happening. We will then select the best of which will go into an
online exhibition on Culture24. To help us select the ones to exhibit we
are getting help from curators at Photoworks and the V&A. 1,000's of
rather nice shiny A5 cards have been printed and sent to all the
participating venues to hand out and we are getting some conversations
going in some Flickr forums.
You can read about it here: www.culture24.org.uk/museumsatnight
I would be happy to share the results of how it all goes with anyone who
is interested and will be sharing a summary of the evaluation on my blog
at the end of May.
Cheers Jane
Jane Finnis
Director, Culture24
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Ridge Mia
Sent: 08 May 2009 16:40
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Subject: Asking the public to contribute on Flickr - what works?
Hi all,
I know quite a few museums have experimented with this, and I wondered
if anyone could share any lessons you've learnt about the best ways to
go about it - how to explain your project to the public, where to ask
for contributions, what to do with people who want to contribute but
aren't on Flickr. I'm sure there must be other things I've missed but
hopefully you get the idea.
I can explain a bit more about the project we're thinking of if that
would help, but in the meantime - any thoughts?
cheers, Mia
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