Twitter

Next week is #MuseumWeek on Twitter. We’ll be joining hundreds of museums around Europe and the rest of the world in taking over Twitter using a new museum-related hashtag everyday. Here’s what to expect from us at MM: We’ll kick off the week on Monday by dropping in on pretty much every staff member of […]

This post was originally published on the official blog of the International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, held in Manchester 22-28 July, as an appetiser for the paper “Understanding social media in STEM museums: the lessons from establishing a bio-hacking laboratory” that I co-authored with Karin Tybjerg and which Karin presented in the […]

My proposal for a talk at Museums & The Web 2013 – published here: Many museums have already embraced social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. as a means of interacting with their audiences. However, for many institutions the main goal of using social media is still only branding, marketing and redirecting traffic to main websites. […]

Every time I see a conference call for papers in my field of expertise these days, I’m thinking: could this meeting have been organised on Twitter or Google+ or some other online platform instead? I’d rather participate in an academic discussion on my iPad at home or in a café than sitting in an ugly meeting room in an anonymous hotel somewhere in the […]

Social media and peer-reviewed journals. Some people would regard these two separate worlds. Perhaps they were once upon a time, but times change and more and more journals are embracing and exploring new uses and are expanding their traditional journal universe with blogs, Twitter accounts etc. An editorial retreat in The British Medical Journal focusing on […]

I fredags var jeg til symposium om web-tv og museumsformidling i Emdrup sammen med en hel del andre video-nysgerrige museumsfolk. Der var inviteret fine folk fra Tate og MoMA, der hver  især holdt oplæg om hvordan de havde taget deres første spæde skridt ind på videomediets røde løber (for flere år siden). Efter pausen kom […]

I first got hooked on using Twitter in- and outside conference rooms when I attended last year’s Artefacts meeting at the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden. Hopefully the award-winning and refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh also has an acceptable wifi connection when hosting this year’s meeting, 7-9 October. This year’s meeting is thematically focused on scientific and technological museum artefacts against the backdrop of the notion […]

“… and how we get feedback from the population”. This sentence is the last remark in a short video on how Twitter might just change how we do Public Health. I love the sentence. It refers to how Twitter is a new tool in Public Health research, but also a tool for us to get […]

Some days ago I emailed my Medical Museion colleagues, asking if anyone happened to know Angela Last (I had visited her website, and found her research profile congenial to our academic research and curatorial programme.) My short inquiry elicited an intensive in-house email correspondence, in which Louise, Adam and myself brought views, which I think may […]

I have blogged about this topic several times: How do you get other scholars onboard Twitter? Unless they are already there, they can be difficult to convince of the benefits of Twitter. Time constraints; horror stories of misinformation, fake profiles and a channel for spreading evil rumours; and assumptions that Twitter is the essence of […]