NYT article on museums in social network spaces

There's an article in the Museums Section of the New York Times yesterday about museums activities in social network spaces. it was my conversation with Dan Frost (the frelance reporter who wrote the piece) that sparked my recent blog postings about the subject. Dan's piece is a good intro ... and there are a lot of Museums and the Web papers about the subject this year, and in past years [search the bibliography].

Killer Statue — Psyched About the Site!

By DAN FOST

Published: March 12, 2008 in The New York Times

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has its own video channel on YouTube. The Oakland Museum of California reaches out to online tastemakers to help push events. The Brooklyn Museum of Art has built its own application on the social networking site Facebook, allowing people to share images of museum artwork.

These and other museums have discovered social media in a big way. It’s no longer enough for a museum to put up a Web site and hope that people find it. Many museums are discovering that the Web 2.0 world lets them advance their mission online to bring in new and often younger visitors and to educate a wider audience.

[see the rest at the NYT site]

Happy reading ...

jennifer

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