I am conducting a survey, the results of which will be analyzed in a thesis titled, “What Say Ye?  Art Museums, Collecting Ethics, and the Public Trust,” for a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) Degree in the field of Museum Studies from the Harvard Extension School.

As a CIO responsible for network security and sustainability, and a Web Producer interested in using hosted Web Services, e.g. Blogger, Wordpress.com, wikispaces, basecamp, Volgistics, etc. to further the mission, I find I'm being challenged by honoring the network security responsibility with the flexibility of web hosted services.

Hi,

First of all, I'd like to say I enjoyed the conference. And after a
major jetlag (we came from the Netherlands) the following question
started spinning in my head. Engaging your visitors to your collections
/ museum / archive etc and seducing them to be prosumers is nowadays
done with flickr, youtube and secondlife. What do you think is the next
big thing?

Participants of the MW2008 conference are kindly invited to add museum-related material to the MuseumsWiki before the conference. Thus you can review your contributions at the mini-workshop on Wiki Software and Facilities for Museums.

You're also encouraged to use the MuseumsWiki for publishing abstracts,
papers or to announce new projects, software or services.

--ThT

as a student at the sorbonne im doing my thesis on social network
and web 2.0 tools, France is just at the begining of the reflexion of
relationship between museum and the web, and the presence of french
museum on facebook is nearly anecdotical.

The growing part
social networks is taking in every day life can bring great opportunities
for museum, but it also bring the need of deeper reflexion.

As a part of my research and to enhance the reflexion of museum, i would like to start a discussion on the way museum go on social networks. The point is to begin a reflexion on the fact which bring the museum on social network, what the museum seek on those networks, what are the benfits. Can you think about a special thing that make you whant to bring your museum on the social network. Do you think it was just for the fact to be in it, to make a place there, to promote the museum. Or did you choose to bring your museum on the social network, after long discussion and in the optic of giving a better knowledge to your audience. As the social network facebook is going in his second year, museum must step aside and think about their presence on social networks, in order that this presence became not just a way to promote the museum but a new way of life for the museum like the internet did in his time.

After following the very good mini-workshop of Rachel and Cathy from MacKinley Middle School (USA), I just would like to inform Rachel (what is your email?), that Orsay Museum (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) has just released its new web site: 80 000 works are now online, with about 60% with picture. It can be search by many ways, and you can find momy (but you have to enter "momie", in french, sorry, it will be improve... but we have so much to do with 5 languages) and objects that may illustrate any subjets.

In fact, we have about 50 % of our collection that is a photo collection (1848-1914). You will find very old photos about many different subjects (even with colors).

Our collection catalog :

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/rech-rec-col-simple.html

You can search by clicking on a room of the museum too :

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/tools/plan-salle.html

I hope it will be helpful!

Please, let me know if you meet any problems to go through...

(and please, excuse me for my poor english...)