New Media Initiatives

Museumblogs.org

• Many, if not most, of these blogs were found by trolling the archives and blogroll of museumblogs.org
  • If you haven't, check it out - too much traffic for a daily read, but scan it.
• 3.1.06 - A la Warhblog.com, Glenbow Museum starts posting a letter every week from a Calgary doctor during WWI.
  • http://missgriffis.wordpress.com/
• 3.15.06 - Musematic launches, a collectiong of museum professionals blogging
  • http://musematic.net/?p=7
• 4.26.06 - Museumblogging.com launches
  • http://www.museumblogging.com/2006_04_01_archive.html
• 5.8.06 - Museum of Dust launches
  • http://museumofdust.blogspot.com/2006/05/mod-vision-why.html
• 5.17.06 - Eye Level is picked as Type Pad?'s blog of the day
  • http://featured.typepad.com/blogs/2006/05/eye_level.html
• 5.25.06 - Museum of Glass launches its first blog
  • http://museumofglass.org/blogs/art/2006/05/what-is-a-blog-anyway/
  • "not only was it a part of the website, but the blog was the content for 3 kiosks in the gallery"
  • expanded to blog all of their exhibitions
• 6.16.06 - New Museums: Pro 2 Pro? blog
  • http://newmuseums.blogspot.com/2006/06/welcome-this-is-first-of-many.html
• 6.18.06 - The New Media team and the Science Museum starts a blog
  • http://www.sciencemuseumdev.org.uk/archives/1
  • ...seems to peter out by November.
• 6.28.06 - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art starts blogging
  • http://www.nelson-atkins.org/blog/2006/06/
  • a very nice behind-the-scenes look as they work to open their new building
• 8.01.06 - Museumpods launches
  • http://museumpods.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html
• 8.11.06 - Met Talk launches several blogs
  • http://www.fresnomet.org/blog/education/museum_education_in_the_news
• 8.18.06 - artworldsalon.com launches
  • http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2006/08/
• 10.1.06 - Burke museum launches a new blog
  • http://burkemuseum.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
• 10.2.06 - Making Conversation with Museums launches
  • http://makingconversation.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/whats-going-on-here/
• 11.16.06 - Museumblogs.org republishes its 5000th museum blog post.
  • http://www.ideum.com/blog/2006/11/16/museum-blogs-5000/
• 11.29.06 - Eye Level has its one-year anniversary
  • http://eyelevel.si.edu/2006/11/eye_levels_firs.html
• 12.15.06 - Museum of Glass launches its Docent blog
  • http://www.museumofglass.org/blogs/docents/
• 2.2.07 - Tagging takes off? Pew: "A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content."
  • http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/201/report_display.asp
• 2.7.06 - WHACK launches at MOCA
  • http://www.moca.org/wack/?p=109
• Feb to March of 07 - three history museum blogs launch
  • http://www.museumpieces.blogspot.com/
  • http://shriverhousemuseum.blogspot.com/
  • http://www.wvmfoundation.com/blog/
• 2.20.07 - Yahoo Pipes launches - visually remix and mash up RSS feeds and other data.
  • http://pipes.yahoo.com/
• 2.20.07 - The director of the Walters started blogging - about 1 post / week.
  • http://www.thewalters.org/blog/
• 3.8.07 - NZ Live? launches a blog
  • http://www.nzlive.com/blog/2007/03/08/welcome/