About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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May 24th, 2006 by Jim Spadaccini
The idea of MuseumBlogs.org is a simple one: Create an open directory of all of the blogs that are related to museum topics and provide a place for museum bloggers to repost, post round-ups, and create original entries as well. (We’re also thinking about how this might be automated in the future with RSS Feeds.)
The About this Site area explains more about the workings and motivations in developing the site. We’re open to your comments, and to your participation. The directory is far from complete; we encourage all interested bloggers to join in and help develop the directory. We’re not quite sure where all this will lead, but that’s what makes this so interesting.
Please provide feedback and comments, add or edit a site in the directory, or contact us if you’d like to blog here.
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