Category: Museum blogging

The Museums & the Web 2007 conference in San Francisco is rapidly approaching.

I was notified today that one of the workshops I am involved in, Planning social media for museums has already been booked out! And one of the reasons for the slowdown in new posts recently has been the furious paper writing involved in producing work for the M&W07 deadline – I have two other presentations this year, the report on the museum blogging survey with Jim Spadaccini, and another on the trends emerging from OPAC2.0.

There look to be some real gems lurking in the (always packed) programme this year and if you are going to be near San Francisco in early-mid April then it is certainly worth making it. These events are always larger than you expect and so if you are already attending M&W07 and would like to meet to discuss ideas, projects, methods, technologies, then drop me a line.

A museum blogger meetup has been proposed by several people already.

We are conducting the first comprehensive survey looking at museum blogs and blogging practices. If you write for, or operate a museum or museum-related blog, please fill out the survey on the Museum Blogs website.

Seb Chan (Powerhouse Museum) and Myself (Ideum) are the conducting the survey. The results will be presented in a session, Radical Trust: The state of the museum blogosphere at the Museums and Web Conference in San Francisco in April 2007. We will also link to our paper from both the Ideum blog and the Powerhouse’s fresh + new blog.

The purpose of the survey is to capture a snapshot of the technologies, aims, policies, uses, and impact of blogging in the museum sector. 2006 has been an amazing year for the field, what were 20 blogs back in January is now a community of nearly 100 museum-related blogs. The results from the survey will help organizations plan and justify future projects utilizing blogs and other social technologies. Please feel free to repost or otherwise pass this on.