Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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So You Want To Be an Artist? How the National Gallery of Canada Used Social Media to Connect with Teens

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socialmedia
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teen
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art
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artgallery
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outreach
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contest
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This session presents a demonstration of how the National Gallery of Canada engaged teens from across the country in an online contest, So You Want To Be an Artist? [makeart.gallery.ca] where they shared their creativity through social media.

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Demonstration - show your project
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The NASA Night Sky Network & Its Benefit to Museums

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outreach
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Volunteers
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social media
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iPhone apps
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online communities
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In this presentation, we introduce factors that help shape a model predicting individuals’ engagement in outreach activities and the extent to which web-based tools support those outreach activities.

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Demonstration - show your project

Rethinking Evaluation Metrics in Light of Flickr Commons

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flickr
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digital images
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statistics
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evaluation
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outreach
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online image collections
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Flickr Commons launched in 2008 as a platform for enhancing the discoverability of cultural heritage collections and for allowing users to tag, annotate, and repurpose these materials. The Commons now boasts 46 members and tens of thousands of public domain images. The impact of the project has been monumental.

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Professional Forum - discuss an issue