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June 2009 Blog Posts (6)

Social Media Plan

At the end of the Communicating the Museum conference in Malaga I think most people left with intention of writing a Social Media Plan, but where do you begin? I put together this guide last night for conference deligates: http://www.museummarketing.co.uk/?p=151

It isn't the finished article and I'd love to hear any comments you have about how I can improve it.

Added by Jim Richardson on June 27, 2009 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Looking for images or descriptions of fabulous feedback solutions

We are working with architects right now to design new gallery spaces to display and share materials with visitors. We have asked for a feedback zone to be designed into the gallery spaces and are seeking images or descriptions of feedback zones that have proved effective. Please share what you are doing, what you have seen elsewhere and any thoughts about what works especially well. We are especially interested in feedback zones in museums spaces that are aimed at adult audiences, but all are… Continue

Added by Jill Severn on June 26, 2009 at 12:09am — No Comments

Communicating the Museum Hashtag #CTM09

Preparations are in their final stages for this year's Communicating the Museum conference taking place next week from Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th June. We’ve created a Twitter hashtag - #CTM09 - for the conference so that you can follow all the key moments of the conference and send us your thoughts and contributions wherever you are in the world.

During the conference, my colleague Claire and I will be micro-blogging… Continue

Added by Elishka Flint on June 18, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

GLAM-WIKI: Finding the common ground

Dear All,

The event that you have (hopefully) all heard about, "Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Wikimedia: finding the common ground" is coming along apace!

We went live with registrations less than a week ago and already we're at 1/3 full - many of you on this Ning are among that number.

This is a Wikimedia Australia event, a world first for… Continue

Added by Liam Wyatt on June 12, 2009 at 11:22pm — 6 Comments

Māori Legal Archive

Māori Legal Archive : Reasons to be cheerful

There are a whole bunch of reasons to celebrate the launch of the Legal Māori Archive. First, it offers Māori speaking legal scholars access to some hitherto hard to find legal sources. Second, it illustrates some real collaboration between the parties involved. Third. it adds to the weft of what I like to think of as the 'real web - i.e first class learning and cultural sources with open access to all. Lastly, and definitely for me, , it… Continue

Added by Paul Reynolds on June 8, 2009 at 1:21pm — No Comments

Live streaming - leaps and bounds

Having fought long and hard to enable the local authorities website to host pod casts we are now in production of a pilot series which should be ready for download/ viewing within the next couple of weeks!

I also have responsibility for the big screen in our town centre - the content is programmed by the BBC.

We have some fantastic local content created by local artists and film makers and I wanted it to reach a wider audience than just people passing through the City… Continue

Added by David on June 6, 2009 at 4:13am — No Comments