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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September 18th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Ross Mayfield of Social Text recently pointed to a longstanding issue involving the relationship of organizational practices and organizational processes. He offered a discussion of distributed collaboration and community, specifically on the question of which organizational stakeholder is the most effective leader of community (internal and external) initiatives. Ross notes that
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May 22nd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
It’s a bit early for a random Friday fun link, but this Forrester ‘Build Your Customers’ Social Technographics Profile’ interactive counts as work too. Companies often approach Social Computing as a list of technologies to be deployed as needed — a blog here, a podcast there — to achieve a marketing
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May 21st, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Quick and dirty notes from geeKyoto, held at Conway Hall, Saturday May 17, 2008. These are pretty much as entered on my phone. The theme of the event was vaguely ‘we broke the world, how can we fix it?’. This isn’t strictly a post about IT, but there
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May 13th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Bootstrapping a Niche Social Network poses the question, “How do you bootstrap your social site if you’re targeting a group that doesn’t yet use software (or doesn’t seem interested in using software)? While software designers can often see how useful their tool can be, normal users aren’t so prescient. How do
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April 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
If you’re interested in another perspective on dealing with user-generated tags or metadata, this blog post from last.fm, Fingerprinting and Metadata Progress Report talks about how they’re trying to create ‘order from chaos’:So far our fingerprint server identified 23 million unique tracks, from the 650 million fingerprint requests you’ve thrown at it.
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April 20th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
If you’re interested in another perspective on dealing with user-generated tags or metadata, this blog post from last.fm, Fingerprinting and Metadata Progress Report talks about how they’re trying to create ‘order from chaos’:So far our fingerprint server identified 23 million unique tracks, from the 650 million fingerprint requests you’ve thrown at
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April 3rd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Las redes sociales son uno de los fenómenos que con más fuerza han irrumpido en Internet. Comunidades de usuarios, portales que permiten la comunicación a través de herramientas sincrónicas o asincrónicas, lugares donde encontrar antiguos amigos, conocer nueva gente, hacer negocios… El software social se ha convertido en un fenómeno imparable
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Posted in social software, Museos 2.0, Redes Sociales, 2.0, Museos | Comments Off
December 11th, 2007 by AutoAggregator
An old post (February this year), but one worth noting: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles.(I’ve been in Japan and was busy in that ‘pre-holiday’ way beforehand, so haven’t updated recently. Naughty me.)
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