So what do you want to do next with social media? With help from the excellent Nick Booth and Gavin Wray (Podnosh), a group of museums and culutral organisations met at Wolverhampton Archives to try and answer this question.
We had lots of ideas and discussion. Nick talked about how the Birmingham Conversation Trust use social media to challenge a development agency. We thought about how social media can be used to develop relationships and conversations. Social media is a poweful channel that can be used to develop social capital, i.e. engaging lots of like minded people in a common cause.
During the day we had a group discussion on how we could use our social media resources differently, on a local, regional and global basis. This produced some wonderful and exciting ideas.
- Encouraging local people to write Wikipedia entries for our venues and collections
- Open up our venues for blogger events
- Advertise our URLs social media channels on beer mats, posters, and distribute in local and regional community venues
- Town twinning with other towns/cities across the world with the same name
- Promote global champions for our regions
There were loads of inspiring ideas. Too many to mention here, so please download this word document, that lists all the ideas. How we can do social media differently
Please post your comments and reactions to these ideas. As social media is all about having a conversation!
June 30th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Hi Emma. Really enjoyed the session yesterday. Lots of great ideas and discussion.
The links in the discussion notes in the Word doc are missing – how about putting the original text in a blog post rather than Word so anyone can read and link to it without downloading a doc?
Thanks,
Gavin
June 30th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Hello Emma,
I thoroughly enjoyed the session and it gave me loads to think about.
For everyone who attended, I’m @russelldornan on Twitter and my blog is:
http://www.biologycuratorialtrainee.wordpress.com
Please check it out everyone and let me know about your sites and Social Media forays.
Cheers,
Russell : )
June 30th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
I would be particularly interested in exploring partnership working around:
Adding content to Wikipedia / working with volunteers and local groups to add content to Wikipedia
Developing a joint social media presence based on themes or collections like what we are already doing with Geology Matters, might be subject specific, geologarphical or something like “We love Archives”
Do something like Walsall24 or CultureThemes where lots of us tweet on a specific subject on a specific day (or week)
If anyone else is interested in any of these please leave a comment here or email me direct
Linda Ellis
June 30th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
If anyone is interested in adding content to our Then and Now blog http://thenandnowaswewere.wordpress.com/ please let me know
We’d love to have more partners involved adding content – archives and museums.
Linda Ellis
June 30th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Emma
I can’t see comments if I’m not logged into WordPress – is that right?
Linda
June 30th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Hi Linda
Just needed to moderate comments done now!
July 8th, 2011 at 6:58 am
[...] The Project Team was represented at this event at Wolverhampton Archives on June 29th. The session was led by Nick Booth and Gavin Wray from Podnosh. It was great to find out how museums and cultural organisations are using social media. There were some very interesting discussions about using social media on a local, regional and global basis. We hope to be able to incorporate some of these ideas as we continue to promote World of Kays. A report of the event has been posted on Museum Musings: http://westmidlandsmdo.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/social-media-what-shall-we-do-next/ [...]