Museums and the Web
An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.
Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011): MW Online – The Permanent Backchannel
You can find the Museums and the Web community on-line in the following on-line social spaces.
Join us!
Do you have a preferred social media venue? Why? Let us know in the comments.
conference.archimuse.com: our on-line community
Ours is a ~3,400+ member on-line community of cultural informatics professionals, that includes blogs, discussions, a bibliography of all past MW papers, and user profiles. Anyone can contribute!
Watch what's happening with museums and the web on-line in the backchannel twitter feed (in the sidebar), or the full aggregated feed (a Yahoo! Pipe – that pulls together blog postings, photos, tweets and more).
Our Feed on Twitter
Follow museweb on the Twitter micro-blogging service for announcements and links of interest.
Check out museweb's followers; it's a great way to find other people + museums. There are also twitter lists of MW2011-presenters, the MW2011 Best of the Web panel. and the MW2011 Program Committee.
@museweb if you want to get in touch.
Our Tag: museweb
Our topical hashtag is #museweb: use it in your tweets about museums and the web. Details specific to the meeting use the #mw2011 hashtag.
#mw2011
- Search current tweets on Twitter
- See statistics on 'What the hashtag'
- Browse an archive at twapperkeeper
#museweb
Use the museweb tag generally, for blog postings, or through live bloggers. All kinds of Museums and the Web attendees blog regularly; please use the museweb tag so others can find your posts!
Our Tag in del.icio.us: museweb
Use the museweb tag to identify useful sites in deli.icio.us and share them with your colleagues.
- Subscribe to the feed here
- Tag interesting sites with museweb so that others can find them too.
Our Pictures on Flickr
We share photos in a Flickr group: Museums and the Web 2011 (mw2011-15th)
Feel free to join the group and add your images of MW. here are Flickr groups for each conference since Museums and the Web 2005!
- Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011)
- Museums and the Web 2010 (MW2010)
- Museums and the Web 2009 (MW2009)
- Museums and the Web 2008 (MW2008)
- Museums and the Web 2007 (MW2007)
- Museums and the Web 2006 (MW2006)
- Museums and the Web 2005 (MW2005)
Our Presentations on Slideshare
We share presentations on Slideshare in the Museums and the Web group. There's also a Slideshare event for the MW2011 conference.
See presentations from last year's conference: Museums and the Web 2010.
Our Group on LinkedIn
If you maintain a professional profile on LinkedIn, join the Museums and the Web group.
As of the November 2010, there are ~2,150 members.
Our LinkedIn Event
Let your colleagues know you're were at Museums and the Web 2011 by RSVPing to our LinkedIn Event.
Our Page on Facebook
Our Event on Facebook
Let your friends know you are coming to MW2011.
RSVP to Museums and the Web 2011 through the Museums and the Web 2011 Facebook Event
Our Event on Lanyrd
RSVP for Museums and the Web 2011 on our Lanyrd event page and connect with other people on Twitter who are coming to MW2011.
Local Information
We're also using on-line tools to gather useful information about Philadelphia for MW2011 delegates.
- Yelp to identify Restaurants
- A Google map of MW venues