Comments on: Social media: growing the Smithsonian’s community http://www.bitecommunications.com/2009/06/30/social-media-growing-the-smithsonians-community/ A global communications consultancy Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:10:52 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Daly Conservation » Can you hear me S.O.S.? http://www.bitecommunications.com/2009/06/30/social-media-growing-the-smithsonians-community/comment-page-1/#comment-7470 Daly Conservation » Can you hear me S.O.S.? Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:29:39 +0000 http://blog.bitepr.com/?p=1559#comment-7470 [...] There are currently around 40,000 sculptures in the database. Nancy Proctor Head of New Media, Smithsonian American Art Museum spoke about SOS in an interview with Sumaya Kazi Senior Social Manager of Sun Microsystems. Nancy outlined how the project can continue to create Wikipedia pages for each sculpture that could be linked to Flickr photos, allowing the public full access to the information. This would preserve the sculptures and educate the public about them. The interview was reviewed by Molly Holtman on her blog. [...] [...] There are currently around 40,000 sculptures in the database. Nancy Proctor Head of New Media, Smithsonian American Art Museum spoke about SOS in an interview with Sumaya Kazi Senior Social Manager of Sun Microsystems. Nancy outlined how the project can continue to create Wikipedia pages for each sculpture that could be linked to Flickr photos, allowing the public full access to the information. This would preserve the sculptures and educate the public about them. The interview was reviewed by Molly Holtman on her blog. [...]

]]> By: Molly Holtman http://www.bitecommunications.com/2009/06/30/social-media-growing-the-smithsonians-community/comment-page-1/#comment-7469 Molly Holtman Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:39:38 +0000 http://blog.bitepr.com/?p=1559#comment-7469 Thanks for passing that along, Erin. In a way, it's possible to get way too hung up with the semantics, but words do carry connotations that affect the approach we take with communications. Thanks for passing that along, Erin. In a way, it’s possible to get way too hung up with the semantics, but words do carry connotations that affect the approach we take with communications.

]]> By: Eryn Whitworth http://www.bitecommunications.com/2009/06/30/social-media-growing-the-smithsonians-community/comment-page-1/#comment-7468 Eryn Whitworth Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:39:54 +0000 http://blog.bitepr.com/?p=1559#comment-7468 Great Post -- In regards to the discussion of 'audience' vs. 'community'. There is a long history of trying to define the museum goer as audience, patron, and nowadays community member. To read about that history check out this article. Peacock, D., & Brownbill, J. (2007, March 31). Audiences, Visitors, Users: Reconceptualising Users of Museum On-line Content and Services. In Museums and the Web 2007 Proceedings. Retrieved October 31, 2007, from <a href="http://www.archimuse.com Web site: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/peacock/peacock.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.archimuse.com Web site: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/peacock/peacock.html</a> Annotation: This is a somewhat philosophical article where the authors consider the ways in which the museum web site user is conceptualized and the implicit implications of such conceptualizations.<i> The writing team present the different conceptions of museum web site users and explore how those competing conceptions are detrimental and cause frustration within the museum web development community, while the competing conceptions go un-noticed with the terms audience, user and visitor employed often interchangeably.</i> Note this article was not empirically based. Great Post — In regards to the discussion of ‘audience’ vs. ‘community’. There is a long history of trying to define the museum goer as audience, patron, and nowadays community member. To read about that history check out this article.

Peacock, D., & Brownbill, J. (2007, March 31). Audiences, Visitors, Users: Reconceptualising Users of Museum On-line Content and Services. In Museums and the Web 2007 Proceedings. Retrieved October 31, 2007, from http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/peacock/peacock.html” rel=”nofollow”>http://www.archimuse.com Web site: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/peacock/peacock.html

Annotation: This is a somewhat philosophical article where the authors consider the ways in which the museum web site user is conceptualized and the implicit implications of such conceptualizations. The writing team present the different conceptions of museum web site users and explore how those competing conceptions are detrimental and cause frustration within the museum web development community, while the competing conceptions go un-noticed with the terms audience, user and visitor employed often interchangeably. Note this article was not empirically based.

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