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For the last five years the CSA Newsletter (http://csanet.org/newsletter) has included regular reviews of web sites related to archaeology or architectural history. We intend to continue to do that, but we are always in need of people willing to spend the time required to give a site its due. We need volunteers - in general, for specific areas of study, or for specific web sites. Please let me know if you would be interested by email me at editor AT csanet.org or nicke at the same domain.

Yes!!!  We have finally joined Twitter, the social network that we needed to complete the first phase of  our Social Media presence, launched in May this year. Some of you are maybe wondering, but, weren't you already on Twitter? And others may ask why weren't you? Or even , why are you now?

The recent get-together in Paris as part of the ‘Rencontres Web Musées’, on 16 October, was in the purest spirit of 2.0: informal and participatory and with plenty of substance supplied not only by the panel but by many of the delegates. The setting, the Louvre. The subject: Museums and Web 2.0. The content: let me give you a brief overview, and you can check out the presentations on Slideshare.

Today is BlogDay again. Beyond many well known museum blogs such as Brooklyn, Tate Modern, IMA,Museum 2.0, etc. here are my 5 recommendations for this year's BlogDay:

Jodi Awards 2009 – national and international this year
Call for nominations - Contact: Ross Parry, Jodi Mattes Trust, tel 0116 252 3963. Email: rdp5@leicester.ac.uk

Nominations are now being sought for the Jodi Awards  2009. The awards are for museums, galleries, libraries, archives, arts organisations and heritage venues that use digital technology to widen access to information, collections learning and creativity for disabled people .

Yes, it went well! I was so prepared to face some strong resistances, some questioning why we should waste time on that when we have so many important tasks to do and things of the sort, that I was surprised none of these were uttered (I twittered it but I haven’t had time for blogging until today, Sunday). I guess I was sort of relieved. But I’m very realistic too: first, people in meetings usually are cautious when they don’t really know much about the matter.

Hello,
How are you? We are taking a small survey of what Content Managment Systems Museums CMS. Would you mnd taking a minute to fill out this one page survey?

Suvey

I will post the answers. Thank you!

I was delighted to attend the mw09 session where four museums shared their experience of having their websites redesigned. To my surprise, the difficulties I underwent during our redesign process were almost the same (at a smaller scale, of course) as those of the big museums

(thank you Allegra, Dana, Charlotte and Joana for sharing).

I am moderating a seminar on social media/collections online and policy issues. I would like to get in touch with institutions having their collections online, publishing items on Flickr etc. and who have encountered or experienced "problems" with these images being "stolen" (i.e. showing up on blogs, on Wikipedia, commercial sites).

I would be very grateful to learn more about other institutions' policies on transparency, participation in social media sites, or just publishing collections online.

Now that we are taking back with us all the richness generated by mw09 attendance, here there are some after thoughts.

Välkommen till det nationella forumet för webbredaktörer på museum 18 maj 2009 i Visby, Gotland.

Under fredagsmorgonen kunde man ströva omkring bland ca 15 webbprojekt som i bås presenterade sina produktioner.
En av de intressanta i kategorin unga musei- & webbproducenter är de tre exempel studenter från Media Arts Program i New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico skapat.

Allt eftersom museum tillgängliggör sina samlingar online ökar intresset hos lärarkåren för att använda materialet. Museum of London har undersökt integreringen genom utvärderingar, fokusgrupper och observationer i klassrummen.

Rapport från undersökningen
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/abstracts/prg_335001976.html