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 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 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
In ‘Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow’ on ALA, George Oates from Flickr says:It’s easy to get lost on Flickr. You click from here to there, this to that, then suddenly you look up and notice you’ve lost hours. Allow visitors to cut their own path through the place and
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April 25th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
These are my notes from the presentation ‘Unheard Stories – Improving access for Deaf visitors’ by Linda Ellis at the MCG Spring Conference. There’s some background to my notes about the conference in a previous post.Linda’s slides for Unheard Stories – Improving access for Deaf visitors are online.This was
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April 24th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
There are my notes from the presentation ‘Rhagor - the collections based website from Amgueddfa Cymru’ by Graham Davies at the MCG Spring meeting.’Rhagor’ is Welsh for more - the project is about showing more of the collections online. It’s not a ‘virtual museum’.With this project, they wanted to increase
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