The Brooklyn Museum (@brooklynmuseum) and Columbus Museum of Art (@columbusmuseum) are both using Twitter to communicate with their audiences. Brooklyn Museum's stream has pointed me to some really interesting stuff over the past year.
Incidentally, I've been playing with Twitter Stream Graphs of late, which is actually how I discovered the Columbus Museum of Art's stream: http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitterStreamGraphs/view.php Twitter Stream Graphs parses out the relevant concepts from tweets, aggregates them, and graphs them over time, so you can see what people are posting about and when. I graphed "Metropolitan Museum of Art" just to see what was interesting about us to the Twitter community, and found a relative paucity of postings until the opening of the Poiret show in late August, then a settling down again, followed by a huge explosion in postings when our new director was named. I guess it's a little geeky, but still really fascinating. Koven J. Smith Associate Manager of Interpretive Technology The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10028-0198 (212) 396-5063 koven.smith at metmuseum.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anna Holloway Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:19 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Twitter? We've experimented with Twitter, Pounce, Tumblr and Plurk - but only as a means for communicating with staff and interns to this point. We're hoping to launch a Mariners' tweet later in the fall - but so far we've only used it internally. That said, there's definite potential there to keep visitors/members engaged! Anna Holloway, Vice President, Collections & Programs The Mariners' Museum 757-591-7740 757-591-7312 (fax) The USS Monitor Center - Now Open!!! An Ironclad Promise of Adventure visit us at www.marinersmuseum.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:12 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] Twitter? Alright, alright, I'm slow to the game, but are any of your institutions using Twitter to communicate with your audience? I haven't used it myself, and only just set up an account to try and check it out. How is it working for you? Is it one-way communication between you and your followers, or are they able to interact with you in some way? How have you found this to be effective? Thanks in advance for any help or insight! Perian Sully Collection Information and New Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 Work: 510-549-6950 x 357 Fax: 510-849-3673 http://www.magnes.org http://www.musematic.org http://www.mediaandtechnology.org _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
