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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August 26th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
For people who are on LinkedIn who want to wear their Museums and the Web affiliation on their sleeve (or profile), we’ve created a LinkedIn group for Museums and the Web at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/725107
Feel free to join, and to share the URL with others.
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June 25th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
We’ve had several queries about the Best of the Web Awards for 2009. Guess people are planning ahead.
Our schedule will be the same as previous years, with nominations opening in November. Right now, plans are to have all nominations go right to the conference.archimuse.com site [see last year’s], so we can…
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June 18th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
On Social Tagging by Native Communities
Tagging can help museums understand how visitors perceive the objects in their collections. While the goal of many tagging projects is to provide better access for the public to online collections, Shelley Mannion, at the University of Lugano, is using it to learn how native communities…
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June 18th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
On Social Tagging by Native Communities
Tagging can help museums understand how visitors perceive the objects in their collections. While the goal of many tagging projects is to provide better access for the public to online collections, Shelley Mannion, at the University of Lugano, is using it to learn how native communities…
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May 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The Session on Metrics Was Great
Sebastian Chan of Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia gave an eye opening evaluation of the metrics generally used by museums to understand how successful their websites are. Typically you rely on information about the number of new visitors, page visits, amount of time spent on a
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May 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The Session on Metrics Was Great
Sebastian Chan of Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia gave an eye opening evaluation of the metrics generally used by museums to understand how successful their websites are. Typically you rely on information about the number of new visitors, page visits, amount of time spent on a
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April 25th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
With the addition of the papers published for Museums and the Web 2008, the on-line bibliography maintained at conference.archimuse.com now numbers over 1,200 sources.
These published papers from Museums and the Web and ICHIM – with full texts available on-line – represent the development of museums on the web, and museums and…
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April 23rd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Here’s the PowerPoint from my presentation on Day One. I’d love to hear your own criteria for success for museum blogs, and 2-way engagement with visitors. I think Gail gave us a good example, setting the bar high and providing real structure with her "Web 2.0 as Task."
http://www.slideshare.net/psamis/slideshows
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