Presentation at the "Get Connected - Your Museum and Web 2.0" workshop organised by the Irish Museums Association in collaboration with the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick hosted by the Hunt Museum, Limerick (13 November 2009)

1. Overview of current museum presence in social media Gabriela Avram “ Get Connected”, IMA & IDC The Hunt Museum 13th November 2009

5. Photos- using Flickr Flickr is a popular website for people to share photographs and video. It has a strong community of users who use Flickr to share their own photos and videos, and to explore and discuss other peoples’.

6. Asking the public to contribute

7. Involving the public in taking pictures

9. Documenting events

10. Surreptitious use of images

11. Visitors want to participate

12. Having a conversation - Twitter Twitter is a service that allows you to send messages of 140 characters in length to a set of people (“followers”) who self-elect to receive your messages (“tweets”).

13. Talk about what’s going on…

14. and listen to the public References: TED talks ; TEDx ; TEDxDublin

15. Pretending to be an exhibit

16. Or someone famous!

18. Sharing videos- YouTube YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload and share videos. The user-generated content on this site includes movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.

19. MOMA uses it for sharing exhibits

20. … and for finding new works

21. Others use it for advertising Do you know the way to the American Museum?

22. … or showcasing A visit at the Howth Transport Museum

23. Visitor’s video from Castlebar Museum

24. Capturing events Performance and projection by Digital Slaves during the tweak Festival

25. People, organisations, events and groups- the Facebook way Facebook is a free social networking site that allows users to create a profile page or a page to communicate with others. Facebook allows users to share information via text and upload of videos and pictures from a PC or mobile device.

27. Museum Groups

28. Museum Pages

29. Individual profile

30. Individual profile

31. But also: connecting to peers