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participation, publication and partnership examples for our up and coming book!

Lynda Kelly and I had a great meeting last week where we discussed the publication which we need to write to finish off the Engaging with Social Media in Museums project.

We're looking for great examples of participation, publication and partnerships in the cultural sector. Basically, we'd like to interview people over the next few months to include as case studies in the book. In the spirit of Museum3.0, we'd love to get some great examples and suggestions from you!

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Sikarskie on August 18, 2010 at 2:00am

Hi Angelina,
I think we met briefly at Museums and the Web in Indianapolis in 2009. Anyway, I work for the Quilt Index, www.quiltindex.org, an online archive with images and metadata for over 50,000 historic and contemporary quilts. Among other things, I manage our social media--a Facebook page and blog, each with an object of the day, Twitter, and a large wiki on quilt collections and documentation projects. The Quilt Index staff team would be very interested in partnering as a case study for you book. Could you please let me know more?
Thanks!
Amanda

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Permalink Reply by Mirah Lambert on August 17, 2010 at 5:42pm

Museum Victoria has a few social media projects and experiences underway that may be of interest to you. I understand you have already spoken with Jareen Sumerhill from Marketing about the work she is doing with Facebook, Twitter and wikipedia. Also, when we had Top Designs (VCE student exhibition of exemplar design works) at Melbourne Museum, Laura Murphy who coordinated the onsite program of designer talks also set up and managed our Top Designs Facebook page. It grew phenominally populated by exhibiting (past) students, participating designers, current VCE design students etc. It was a great example of an authentic network, developed through shared interests and blended learning onsite and online. Similarly, Talking Faiths (fostering interfaith dialogue, inlcudes online forums) and Talking Difference (online media project exploring cultural difference and promoting diversity) are two online media projects run from Immigration Museum. Tatiana Mauri, Manager of Community Engagement there has more info and check the Immigration Museum website. I've invited these people I've mentioned to join and happy to follow up with further contact info if you need it.

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Permalink Reply by Angelina Russo on August 18, 2010 at 10:40am

Hi Mirah
thank you so much1 I wasn't aware of the Talking Faiths and Talking Difference projects. I'll add them to the list and further down the track will contact Tatiana! Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Jareen Summerhill on August 17, 2010 at 9:14pm

I've got a great case study with Sam the Koala - influencing and changing negative sentiment into positive sentiment. Really good case study that shows the role museums can play - I can send you my preso that identifies the problem, the strategy, the outcomes and the metrics. I've adapted SM metrics around measuring sentiment.

We've also got some big collaborative/partnership education projects - Mirah might be able to speak to them a bit more.

(Great post by Mirah too - thanks M!)

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Permalink Reply by Angelina Russo on August 18, 2010 at 10:38am

Hi Jareen
That would be great. I often use Sam in presentations! It would be great if you could send the preso. Sam's a great example of potential partnerships! Please do send to angelina.russo@rmit.edu.au

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Permalink Reply by Angelina Russo on August 23, 2010 at 9:55am

Thanks to everyone who offered ideas. I think we have enough case studies to get started! I finished the draft proposal on Friday, sent it to one agent and need to do a bit more work to send off to smithsonian press. Interviewing Australian museum on tuesday. Will explore uploading sounds files here. Will keep you posted!

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Permalink Reply by emily on August 27, 2010 at 6:02pm

Here's an example: http://museum30.ning.com/video/multitouch-screen-delights

This interactive kiosk allowed visitors to create their own unique orchid. THEN, they could share the orchid with everyone from their social networks, from within the exhibition.

The museum noticed people arriving looking for the interactive so they could make an orchid too.

I know people do love to create things, but they also love to share them too. That's where social media can help in spreading the word and raising awareness.

Social media is an area I have great experience in. Love to help you if i can.

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Permalink Reply by emily on August 27, 2010 at 6:02pm

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Permalink Reply by Kate Stone on September 14, 2010 at 4:54pm

Hi Angelina, You're aware of australianscreen's partnership with ABC SBS National Archives etc, if that's useful please let me know, happy to help. cheers.

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Permalink Reply by Phileas Cheng on September 19, 2010 at 8:03am

Hi Angelina,

I'm the co-founder and editor of Vidafine (www.vidafine.com), an online magazine exploring the growing wave of creative thinking present amidst the intersection of creative art, products, innovative social ventures, cutting-edge technology, and the passionate people behind them. Collectively, these facets constitute the influential forces defining our modern culture.

Please let me know if we can be of any help to you for this project as we would be more than glad to participate.

Best regards,

Phileas

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Permalink Reply by David Oakley on September 20, 2010 at 5:08pm

Hi Angelina, i'm working with an e-learning company to develop a video and image mash-up tool that might be useful for museums to engage audiences. At this stage we have a prototype to build rich media ads (adbubbler) it's just finished but it's not yet been put into action. Our next stage it to develop it for eduction (edbubbler). Let me know if this interests you and I'll send you a link. Cheers. David.