I have been telling my administration that as a rule, museum blogs are not subject to the same editorial standard as official museum communications (newsletters, catalogues, labels, brochures, press releases, etc.). My understanding is that museums do provide potential staff bloggers with guidelines, and that there may be some minimal review for factual errors, blatantly poor grammar, typos, etc. But is this so? Our Deputy Director, commenting about the blogs of a well known museum, said "it's not possible that they have so many good writers on staff; they must be getting lots of editorial input."
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