Comments on: The state of museum blogs. http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/ Technology at the Walker Art Center Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:06:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Klaus Jäschke http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-44020 Klaus Jäschke Wed, 09 May 2007 15:31:48 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-44020 Hi Eric, I don't know if you may already visited www.museumsblog.de, made by a professional museum expert, blogging about several museums, good ideas, bad examples, forgotten museums and related topics. Greez Klaus Hi Eric,
I don’t know if you may already visited http://www.museumsblog.de, made by a professional museum expert, blogging about several museums, good ideas, bad examples, forgotten museums and related topics.

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]]> By: Nate Schroeder http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-36934 Nate Schroeder Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:22:29 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-36934 @Nina - I agree about Eye Level, they've got a really good thing going. To my chagrin I only found your blog about a month or so, but I've been reading it faithfully ever since. In fact, I started a response post about the very post your mention, but between various "emergencies" that day and bad timing I never got it fleshed out enough to publish... I'm having a hard time telling which category we fit into on your 17 chart, I feel like a cross between 1 and 2 with some of 4 mixed in, but maybe that means we should focus more. Any professional feedback - on or off the record - for the Walker blogs? @Nina - I agree about Eye Level, they’ve got a really good thing going. To my chagrin I only found your blog about a month or so, but I’ve been reading it faithfully ever since. In fact, I started a response post about the very post your mention, but between various “emergencies” that day and bad timing I never got it fleshed out enough to publish…

I’m having a hard time telling which category we fit into on your 17 chart, I feel like a cross between 1 and 2 with some of 4 mixed in, but maybe that means we should focus more. Any professional feedback - on or off the record - for the Walker blogs?

]]> By: Nina Simon http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-36852 Nina Simon Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:21:41 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-36852 I wrote <a HREF="http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2007/03/institutional-blogs-different-voices.html" rel="nofollow"> a post</a> awhile ago on Museum 2.0 about the different kinds of blogs museums might pursue... and what are good (and bad) reasons to do so. It's in the form of a Seventeen magazine style chart quiz. Eye Level made the list as a good example of an "institutional info blog"--I think the collaborative approach works well and humanizes the info about SAAM they are distributing. I wrote a post awhile ago on Museum 2.0 about the different kinds of blogs museums might pursue… and what are good (and bad) reasons to do so. It’s in the form of a Seventeen magazine style chart quiz. Eye Level made the list as a good example of an “institutional info blog”–I think the collaborative approach works well and humanizes the info about SAAM they are distributing.

]]> By: Jeff http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-323 Jeff Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:21:24 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-323 Eric, thanks for the kind words. As you indicated, Eye Level doesn't aspire to be a "breaking news" sort of blog. Instead we do want to post thoughtful stories about American art. And as our About page also states, this is a collaboration, both within our blog team as well as with our various audiences. In part our hope is that the dialogue about art that occurs daily behind the scenes is transposed and enlarged by our blog efforts. Eric, thanks for the kind words. As you indicated, Eye Level doesn’t aspire to be a “breaking news” sort of blog. Instead we do want to post thoughtful stories about American art.

And as our About page also states, this is a collaboration, both within our blog team as well as with our various audiences. In part our hope is that the dialogue about art that occurs daily behind the scenes is transposed and enlarged by our blog efforts.

]]> By: eric http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-289 eric Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:19:03 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2006/01/11/the-state-of-museum-blogs/#comment-289 Oana, Thanks for sharing. It's interesting to hear your how your working through blogging at a smaller museum. We have a bunch of blogs (well okay only 6) so we have fairly splintered our audience in the aim of delivering some targeted information. I think it's safe to say most of our readers are not as internet savy as the folks who read this blog, it's good to hear that reminder sometimes. Your point #1 makes a lot of sense, I'm sure most people would rather send that email than answer in a public setting where any web surfer can come along and read their words. It's like raising your hand at a lecture I would guess, people have questions but they are a little afraid to make a fool of themselves sometimes. Although blogging does offer some anonymity but I'm sure it takes a little while to get used to a "public" conversation. Point #2 could be a real problem for surfers unfamiliar with dynamic pages. Have you tried mitigating that with your template at all? Of course since I do design thats the first thing i think of :) You don't want to just change your site up like crazy once people are used to it but small changes or a small number of changes might get you less emails. I know blogger has a wide variety of templates. Maybe some of them forefront the categories more which could help people who get lost. Sheila who commented earlier has <a href="http://www.clioweb.org/sheila/" rel="nofollow">a blog</a> with a lot of history museum links. I'm not sure how many of them are small museums but it's a place to start. While your there you might also like the root of that site at <a href="http://clioweb.org/" rel="nofollow">Clioweb.org</a>. It has a lot of history links on it, sometimes to other organizations blogs. Since I started this series of posts I have found it remarkably hard to find museum blogs, by any type of museum but especially contemporary art museums. I really don't have any idea why that would be but regardless keep up the good work, and the positive posts. Oana,

Thanks for sharing. It’s interesting to hear your how your working through blogging at a smaller museum. We have a bunch of blogs (well okay only 6) so we have fairly splintered our audience in the aim of delivering some targeted information. I think it’s safe to say most of our readers are not as internet savy as the folks who read this blog, it’s good to hear that reminder sometimes.

Your point #1 makes a lot of sense, I’m sure most people would rather send that email than answer in a public setting where any web surfer can come along and read their words. It’s like raising your hand at a lecture I would guess, people have questions but they are a little afraid to make a fool of themselves sometimes. Although blogging does offer some anonymity but I’m sure it takes a little while to get used to a “public” conversation.

Point #2 could be a real problem for surfers unfamiliar with dynamic pages. Have you tried mitigating that with your template at all? Of course since I do design thats the first thing i think of :) You don’t want to just change your site up like crazy once people are used to it but small changes or a small number of changes might get you less emails. I know blogger has a wide variety of templates. Maybe some of them forefront the categories more which could help people who get lost.

Sheila who commented earlier has a blog with a lot of history museum links. I’m not sure how many of them are small museums but it’s a place to start. While your there you might also like the root of that site at Clioweb.org. It has a lot of history links on it, sometimes to other organizations blogs.

Since I started this series of posts I have found it remarkably hard to find museum blogs, by any type of museum but especially contemporary art museums. I really don’t have any idea why that would be but regardless keep up the good work, and the positive posts.

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