Social Networking
Katie Stretten starts her presentation.
She first shows the site 43things, which allows people to share and talk about their goals in life.
She then shows the site Soflow.com. It shows your personal network, and you can join specific groups. Conversations range from the serious to the frivilous.
The next site she shows is Frappr.com, which uses mapping technology so that you put yourself in geogrpahical contect.
She then turns to 'the daddy of them all', Myspace. She explains that you can have networks based on interests, has photos, music, blogs, etc. You can also add content and links from other social networking sites. So, she says that there's a network of networks, with all the sites working together.
How does this related to museums and visitor experiences, she asks. Katie has recently been working on a website called Every Object Tells a Story. This asks people to tell stories about their own objects as well as museum objects. Offline and online events were used to encourage people to tell stories, including in their branded taxi which has a video camera inside which you can tell your story too.
What's even more interesting, she says, is that museums upload their own stories about objects, but these are held on the same level as user-contributed stories, and so users feel like they are really contributing to the commuinity.
The site is more controlled than typical social networking sites, and doesn't focus on friends networks, in order to make it different and relevant.
She suggests that visitors could create account in the visiting centre, and then take photos via a mobile phone to upload to their space. Visitors could add tags to their objects, and comment on each others stories. They could also make pledges of things they are going to do. She comments that MPs should also be creating their own spaces, and so be engaging at the same level as the visitors, in order for people to feel that it's a valuable experience.
She also suggests working with other social networking sites, to engage with a wider variety audiences.
Someone asks whether people often meet up in real life through social networking sites, and whether there's any liability for this, if people have a bad experience. Katie suggests that people do sometimes meet up, depending on the site and type of network, but that she doesn't know about the legal issues [my note: see recent controversy over myspace].
She first shows the site 43things, which allows people to share and talk about their goals in life.
She then shows the site Soflow.com. It shows your personal network, and you can join specific groups. Conversations range from the serious to the frivilous.
The next site she shows is Frappr.com, which uses mapping technology so that you put yourself in geogrpahical contect.
She then turns to 'the daddy of them all', Myspace. She explains that you can have networks based on interests, has photos, music, blogs, etc. You can also add content and links from other social networking sites. So, she says that there's a network of networks, with all the sites working together.
How does this related to museums and visitor experiences, she asks. Katie has recently been working on a website called Every Object Tells a Story. This asks people to tell stories about their own objects as well as museum objects. Offline and online events were used to encourage people to tell stories, including in their branded taxi which has a video camera inside which you can tell your story too.
What's even more interesting, she says, is that museums upload their own stories about objects, but these are held on the same level as user-contributed stories, and so users feel like they are really contributing to the commuinity.
The site is more controlled than typical social networking sites, and doesn't focus on friends networks, in order to make it different and relevant.
She suggests that visitors could create account in the visiting centre, and then take photos via a mobile phone to upload to their space. Visitors could add tags to their objects, and comment on each others stories. They could also make pledges of things they are going to do. She comments that MPs should also be creating their own spaces, and so be engaging at the same level as the visitors, in order for people to feel that it's a valuable experience.
She also suggests working with other social networking sites, to engage with a wider variety audiences.
Someone asks whether people often meet up in real life through social networking sites, and whether there's any liability for this, if people have a bad experience. Katie suggests that people do sometimes meet up, depending on the site and type of network, but that she doesn't know about the legal issues [my note: see recent controversy over myspace].
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