Activity – 10mins, followed by reporting back
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Work in pairs. Choose one of the links below, or some other social media example, and note down [copy and paste these questions into a Word document]:
- Two positive things about the way the social media service is being used
- Two (actual or potential) downsides
- Two points that you would like more information on
After 10mins one of you will use the demo computer to share your findings
http://www.facebook.com/ [ if you haven’t already tried it – sign up for a Facebook account. You can delete it whenever you like]
Create a Facebook page (fan page): http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?pages
The Tate Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tate-Gallery/110882382269072?ajaxpipe=1&__a=39 <http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tate-Gallery/110882382269072?ajaxpipe=1&__a=39>
The Brooklyn Museum group page is a very active site:http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=2211294957&ref=ts <http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=2211294957&ref=ts>
The Willis Museum in Basingstoke uses Facebook to communicate with regular visitors to the museum with a group:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=25620945048 <http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=25620945048>
The Geffrye Museum fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Geffrye-Young-Peoples-Page/318564089789
Horniman Museum social networking:
http://www.horniman.ac.uk/more/networking.php
Pre-Facebook:
http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3225
Blogs, WordPress, Posterous etc
http://wordpress.com/ [ if you haven’t already tried it – sign up for a WordPress account. You can delete it whenever you like]
http://homecluster.posterous.com/
http://www.museummarketing.co.uk/ (example of WordPress blog)
http://twitter.com/hornimanmuseum
Flickr and YouTube
The Manchester Museum uses YouTube to extend its museum:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ManchesterMuseum <http://www.youtube.com/user/ManchesterMuseum>
National Maritime Museum: Astronomy Photographer of the Year:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/astrophoto/ <http://www.flickr.com/groups/astrophoto/>
Mobile / Handheld Technology
StreetMuseum from the Museum of London:
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Resources/app/you-are-here-app/index.html <http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Resources/app/you-are-here-app/index.html>
Ookl: http://www.ookl.org.uk/web/index.php <http://www.ookl.org.uk/web/index.php>
Podcasting examples
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/snapshotinfo.shtm ??
http://dl.luxmedia.com/nationalgallery/audio/0710arttalk02.mp3
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/podcasts/downloads/Hendon-Habit.mp3
http://washingtonhistory.org/podcasts/good-old-days.mp3
Online Audiences in cultural heritage 