social web media

Last week we put up a computer in the staff kitchen with Twitter as the only application and main page. I call it a Tweet Machine. Over the computer I hung a small sign, urging all staff members to write about everything from philosophical reflections to descriptions of what their packed lunch contained that day: The computer […]

In case you have forgotten where to find Medical Museion on the (social) web: • Biomedicine on Display: www.corporeality.net/museion • Museionblog: www.museionblog.dk (in Danish) • Facebook: www.facebook.com/medicalmuseion • Twitter: www.twitter.com/medicalmuseion • Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/medicalmuseion • Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/53284874@N02/ • and, of course, our traditional home page: www.museion.ku.dk

Taking our Twitter session at the EAMHMS conference two weeks ago (“a qualified kind of success”) as his point of departure, Danny Birchall (Museum Cultures) summarizes his view of the pros and cons of conference-tweeting: On the negative side conference-tweeting tends to be personally distracting (and possibly insulting to a speaker forced to regard an audience […]

Medical Museion is on Facebook. Not because because we love it, but because we follow the siren calls of other museums that believe they need this part of the social media spectrum to be visisble online. Personally, I just hate Facebook. It’s not just the sneaky way they treat their customers (see the long list of their objectionable […]

Ready for some digital intoxication again: Adrienne Fletcher, a graduate student in the Department of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida has made a social media museum research survey which says something about how (American) museums intend to and actually use social web media. Facebook is considered the most effective medium, with Twitter on a second place. Typical […]

Rose Sherman (Director of Enterprise Technology at the Minnesota Historical Society) is circulating a survey about how museums are engaging their communities through social media technologies — blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. Rose asks a lot of relevant questions, like: How frequently, on average, are your social media web sites updated? What function(s) in your […]