Hi Perian, One potential use of Twitter that may only be relevant to folks living in disaster-prone areas is for post -disaster communications. I wish we had this following Katrina a few years ago when the cell network was on its knees for weeks. Here's a video that describes its use for that purpose:
http://tinyurl.com/yq93w2<https://204.213.35.27/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://tinyurl.com/yq93w2> Chuck Patch On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Smith, Koven <Koven.Smith at metmuseum.org>wrote: > 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:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] 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:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
