We're using Twitter at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC. I'm trying to make it a "what it's like to be at the museum everyday" snack bite of information. We've got about 70 followers in a little over two months.
I've tweeted with a visitor while he was here and we ran a #hanna tweet experiment, asking folks to tweet their weather conditions using the Beaufort scale (which is something we have an exhibit on). We've also had a retweet of a particularly funny animal dept. blog post and I have tracked traffic on our site relative to tweet days/times and we're seeing small spikes. http://twitter.com/lifeandscience Small successes, but they've all been "feel good" ones. Beck Tench Director of Web Experience Museum of Life + Science http://lifeandscience.org (919) 475-3421 On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Chuck Patch <chuck.patch at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
