Museum Blog Survey: Follow up
March 13th, 2006 by Jim SpadacciniWe got quite a response from our “Museum Blogs and Community Sites Survey” last week.
We received a number of pointers to additional blogs as well as rapid links from Hanging Together, Mario Bucolo Museums Blog, the Walker Art Center Blogs, NetSquared, Loreto Martin, and others. In addition, for the first time our blog received more visits that our portfolio site here at Ideum, in fact visitation was higher by a 2-to-1 margin.
Our modest survey seems to have caught somewhere around three-quarters of the museum and museum-related blogs that are out there. (Of course there are probably still others.) A number of the blogs we missed were either new with February and March starts, or we simply didn’t find them through any of the search engines or other museums sites we surveyed.
Museums blogs and blogs by museums professionals are simply not easy to find, which might help explain why our survey could miss so many sites, and perhaps why the survey itself has garnered so much interest.
As probably most of you know, blogs become more visible–that is they gain “more authority” in blog search engines like Technorati by being linked to. (Most traditional search engines also use “popularity” as a way to rank results, too.) Since most museum blogs are new they don’t tend to have much “authority.”
As a group, we (museum blogs) could do a better job of linking to each other more often, and paying more attention to each other’s efforts. Our blog is going to start right here, right now.
Below is a complete list of links to the museum blogs found in the survey including those we missed. Please feel free to cut and paste this list (not just cite the posting) and we’ll all gain “authority.”
We intend to update the survey soon, adding all of the additional information for the new sites and revising the summary & methodology and the conclusion. This probably won’t happen until next month at the earliest. Until then, here’s the current list…
Blogs not included in the original survey
Exhibit Commons
NYC Museum Education Roundtable
Loreto Martin
Hamilton (Canada) Museum Educators Group
Audience Research
Portable Antiquities Blog
Museum Connect
Museum Madness
Modern Art Notes
Art Museums
Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog
Goldwell Open Air Museum Blog
Walker Blogs (6 blogs)
Bronx Mus(eum)ings
NCMA Blog
Art @ the Katzen
Contemporary-Pulitzer Blog
Eye Level
Children’s Museums
The Children’s Museum Blog
History Museums
Port Moody Station Museum Blog
Dallas History Forum
Science Museums
RedShift Now
Science Buzz
About Museums
Museum Guru
Museum People’s Journal
TechStyle
Assembly
Hanging Together
The Curator’s Egg
Museums and the Web
Museum Photographers Blog
Mode
Skillful Minds
Museum Pro
Ideum Blog
Mario Bucolo Museums Blog
March 13th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Hi complete the list in my blog with 3 missing, I also add two
http://ingenious.org.uk/
and
http://redstudio.moma.org/
Please try to intelink one each other and I remember the proposal to meet at AAM/Boston…read the post on my blog
bye
Mario
March 13th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
I agree that linking to each other will help increase our visibility as a whole and also get a nice little community thing happenning. I’ll update my links soon with the above.
Thanks for making the task a whole lot easier!
Cheers,
Lisa (from mode)
March 14th, 2006 at 9:01 am
[…] UPDATE: ideum posted an update to the list of blogs from the original paper - looks like their survey caused quite a stir, and nobody wanted to be left out in the cold! Jim Spadaccini asks fellow bloggers to re-post the list of blogs so they can gain “authority” by being more widely linked to, and since I’d really like to see the museum blogosphere thrive, I’m happy to oblige: […]
March 14th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Jim, I’ve reposted the list of blogs, as you requested, at http://hangingtogether.org/?p=99. Let’s see that museum blogosphere thrive!
Günter
March 19th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
[…] Quoted from the Ideum blog: […]
March 25th, 2006 at 4:52 am
We’re running a blog (since May 05) at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia too.
Ours focuses particularly on museum websites, interactive media, copyright and education related issues - as it is put together by the team in Digital Media Services and Web Services.
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/
March 25th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
[…] Here’s a nice summary of other museums running blogs. […]
March 29th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
[…] New blogs. A few museum blogs that did make our Survey of Museum Blogs or the follow up have contacted me. Australia’s Powerhouse Museum has a fresh + new blog that has been posting since May 2005. Kulturelle Welten is a German language blog about museums. Finally, the Museum Detective joins us from New Zealand. […]
May 5th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
[…] We’re a bit late in presenting this news, but apparently they launched on the date of our last round up, April 13th. Musematic’s first post, Museum Blogging explains, “One of the things we’ll be trying to do at MuseMatic is introduce you to the growing museum blogosphere.” That’s certainly welcomed, as our museum blog community needs to be more interconnected and have better authority. […]
May 24th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
[…] We’re happy to announce that museumblogs.org is up and running. Over the last couple of months, off and on, we’ve been working on putting the site together. The original idea came from our Survey of Museum Blogs, the follow Up, and numerous conversations and ideas that came out of the Museums and Web conference. (We posted some of those ideas here, the Walker’s New Media Initiatives Blog posted about it here with numerous comments.) […]
October 11th, 2006 at 2:05 am
We are currently running two blogs:
Antarctic Conservation Blog
http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/antarctica
This is written by a team of conservators working in Antarctica to preserve artefacts from the early explorer Shackleton’s hut
Meteorites Search Blog
http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/meteorite-blog/
This is written by two Museum scientists who have gone to the Desert Fireball Network in the Nullarbor Desert for a month to search for meteorites
I’ve posted these to Museumblogs.org, but thought it worthwhile to add them to this post as well.
October 13th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Kate,
Thanks for sharing the blogs. They make for interesting reading.
Jim
January 1st, 2007 at 1:32 am
We (Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen) are running a blog called Biomedicine on Display — it can be found here: http://www.corporeality.net/museiion. It is written by a group of researchers and museum people working on the history and culture of contemporary biomedicine. I’ve notified www.museumblogs.org but you might also be interested.
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thomas,
Thanks. We’ve seen it and we’ll add it to museum blogs this week. Have you filled out the survey? http://survey.museumblogs.org
It would be great to have your participation.
Best.
Jim