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Social media/Web Guidelines and Strategy Worksheets

The following strategy worksheets and guidelines were developed by Enterprise Technology and Local History Services at the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) as templates for use by other history organizations. The guidelines were created both from experiences here at MHS and by glomming good ideas from the guidelines of others around the web.

If you have not created your own, look at these as a starting point, if you already have your own, add these as tools to your arsenal.

Strategy Worksheet

Guidelines

Also of interest is the Web Standards Guide (PDF) which outlines good, better and best practices for local historical societies in designing and maintaining web sites.

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jtrant's picture
Database of social media policies
Submitted by jennifer trant on March 17, 2011 - 1:23pm.

if you're interested in other comparisons, try this collection of social media policies [government and not for profit] http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php?f=5

j. trant co-founder Museums and the Web | partner archives & museum informatics www.archimuse.com

Pilar Gonzalo's picture
Excellent collection
Submitted by Pilar Gonzalo on March 23, 2011 - 8:52am.

Thank you for sharing. It is a really interesting initiative.

sonnymtk's picture
Excellent
Submitted by Benjuino Menajang on March 17, 2011 - 2:41pm.

Thank you Jennifer.

The link you provided is extremely useful!

sonnymtk's picture
Thank you!
Submitted by Benjuino Menajang on March 8, 2011 - 5:24pm.

I recently joined and found this valuable resource.

Thank you for sharing, Joe!

Justine Richardson's picture
Thanks! Sample style guides?
Submitted by Justine Richardson on October 21, 2010 - 12:11pm.

Thanks, Joe.  These are very useful.

Can you recommend model style guides that do a good job of balancing requirements of institutional presentation/cohesion with flexibility for exhibitions or outreach projects that need to have their own design, look and feel?

Nancie Ravenel's picture
Offering my thanks as well
Submitted by Nancie Ravenel on October 20, 2010 - 6:22pm.

What great starting points for museums just starting to think about entering the social media arena. I'll be mentioning these in a presentation "Using Social Media to tell your Collections' Stories", part of the Connecting to Collections: Raising the Bar series of webinars organized by Heritage Preservation and sponsored by IMLS and AASLH. Thanks so much!

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Thank you for sharing these they were useful.
Submitted by Andrew Milne on October 17, 2010 - 3:25am.

Thank you for sharing these they were useful. 

 

Andrew

Andrew Milne
Founder and CEO
bv02 Inc.  

Bettina Riedrich's picture
Great, thanks...
Submitted by Bettina Riedrich on October 3, 2010 - 9:48am.

I copied a link to the information into my blog (http://blog.zhdk.ch/socialmedia/) about social media and art education (only in German at the moment). I do hope that's okay for you? There is a lot to do in Europe. It's great to find such documents on the English and American sites ;-) Bettina

myotus's picture
RE: Guidelines DOC vs PDF
Submitted by Joe Hoover on October 4, 2010 - 9:47am.

Not a bad idea. It would be possible to create a form based worksheet as a PDF document. It might be nice to offer a text version of the guidelines as well. I will look in to it.