Seb Chan records in his "fresh + new" blog interesting news about the Brooklyn Museum's latest enthusiastic foray in Facebook, which may be of interests to other museums who wish to take advantage of their efforts. From Seb's blog:
"The ever-busy crew at the Brooklyn Museum made live a nice and simple Facebook application called Artshare late in 2007. This allows you to add selected objects from museum collections to your Facebook profile. These object images then link to your museum's collection records, the idea being that people can effectively 'friend' objects in your collection, promote them for you on their profiles, and drive traffic back to your website. Brooklyn did a great job with the application and then took it a step further by opening it up for other museums to add some of their collections to it as well as individual artists. This very collegiate attitude is hopefully going to spread across the sector with more data and technology sharing efforts in the future. The V&A quickly added a selection of their objects to Artshare and now the Powerhouse has added some as well. ..." See Seb's blog entry on this for all the appropriate links. http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2008/01/10/powerhouse-objects-in-artshare-facebook-application/ -- Diane M. Zorich 113 Gallup Road Princeton, NJ 08542 USA Voice: 609-252-1606 Fax: 609-252-1607 Email: dzorich at mindspring.com
