Web 2.0 as Task not Technology: notes from the mini-workshop

Here is the list of the sites discussed in my workshop: Just Do it! Web 2.0 as task not technology. Thanks to Mark Hook for the picture, and his notes from the session.

Please, add your thoughts and ideas as comments to this message. so many great things were suggested, and we weren't writing them down.

Putting the task or the content elsewhere
Flickr

• Victoria and Albert Museum group – much nurturing, note challenges -- http://www.flickr.com/groups/va_museum/
• Celebration of Light group – interesting success-- http://www.flickr.com/groups/celebrations_of_light
• Life in the East End group – harder work-- http://www.flickr.com/groups/east_end_life
• China Design Now exhibition site displaying people’s zodiac design – set up a person to restrict contributions -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/chinesezodiac/
• Sailor Chic group – National Maritime Museum, taken on a life of its own-- http://www.flickr.com/groups/sailorchic/
• Museum of London group -- http://www.flickr.com/groups/museumoflondon/
• The Library of Congress – interesting experiment in social tagging -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
• Picture Australia -- http://www.flickr.com/groups/pictureaustralia_ppe/pool/
• East Lothian Museums have made much use of flickr on their imaginative blog -- http://www.eastlothianmuseums.org/wp/flickr-album/group/33107331@N00/World-Community-Arts-Day.html

YouTube

• Royal Opera House – interesting promotional use of YouTube -- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r4XxmYB2Tbo
• Couture exhibition: Special dress – example of failure -- http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/yourElegantDress.php

Wikis

• Examples of V&A content throughout Wikipedia
• The British Postal Museum and Archive have started a wiki -- http://postalheritage.org.uk/wiki/
• The National Archives has a wiki -- http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Home_page

Facebook

• See Brooklyn Museums’s Artshare application

Uploading

• Extraordinary collaboration with American National Archives with 2 million historical documents going on line each month -- http://www.footnote.com/
• Use of proprietary software for creating an upload site for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter -- http://www.livinghere.org.uk/index.aspx

Putting the task on the museum’s website
Opinion or information upload

• Kyle: Your say – we set wrong task and lost control -- http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/kylie/memories/index.php
• Imaginary Friends – interesting contributions, need moderation -- http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/childrens_lives/education_creativity/creativity/imaginary_friends/index.php

Image upload

• Kyle: Is there a diva in you? http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/kylie/diva/index.php?start=24&show=24&postSearch=&category=
• Lee Miller exhibition -- http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1631_lee_miller/competition.php

Google map mashup

• World Beach Project – grew from an artist’s blog -- http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/index.html
• My Fashionable New York – not so successful -- http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/exhibs_displays/new_york/my_ny/index.php
• Plus Google Grants -- http://www.google.co.uk/grants/

Putting it on several museum’s websites

• Creative Journeys - forthcoming