Brooklyn Museum – Rethinking Twitter with ConnectTweet

This could be of benefit for a lot of museums using Twitter. Brooklyn Museum reports: “For as long as we’ve had the Brooklyn Museum Twitter account, I’ve been the sole voice behind it, but today we are trying something new.  Ben Hedrington, the developer behind ConnectTweet, has given us the go ahead to alpha test [...]

Museum Contests onTwitter, guidelines

Some museums have a contest on Twitter. Twitter has published some useful guidelines for running contests: Discourage the creation of multiple accounts: If users make lots of accounts in order to enter a contest more than once, they’re liable to get all of their accounts suspended. Please be sure to include a rule stating that [...]

Today is follow-a-museum-day on Twitter! Use #followamuseum

Museums of all shapes and sizes can be found giving people a behind the scenes look at art, history, nature and science through Twitter. Over one million people follow museums on Twitter, what if each of these people told a friend about a museum that they enjoy following? What if someone who hasn’t visited a [...]

Museums can benefit from Twitter ‘Contributors’

The Twitter blog has shared information about a new feature which they are currently testing out called ‘Contributors’, this is aimed at businesses, but I think it could be really beneficial to museums too.This ‘Contributors’ functionality enables multiple users to contribute to one Twitter account, this will help large organisation to keep the conversations that [...]

A lot of new museums following Museummedia on Twitter!

Is your museum on this list?

Klout measures engagement with followers on Twitter

Jim Richardson on his blog: “I have seen a few tools which try and provide useful statistics to show engagement with followers on Twitter, but I haven’t really been convinced, but I think this service from Klout is worth looking at. Here are some statistics for MoMA Twitter username @MuseumModernArt to wet your appetite:” Read [...]

Twitter and Penguins: How the San Francisco Zoo Uses Twitter

We know there are a lot of interesting and unique uses for Twitter. We’ve seen Twitter used for customer service, tweets to monitor power usage, and even 140 character marriage proposals, but we never thought about it being used to quickly respond to incidents such as a kid being bit by an otter. Earlier today, a group of Twitter enthusiasts [...]

WOULD BE GREAT: Museum Live Video Tours With Simultaneous Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace Chat

Here are some interesting possibilities to check out! On Mashable ADAM OSTROW writes: “We’ve already covered how viral the chat options on live video services like Ustream, Justin.tv, and Tinychat can be.By signing into these services with your Twitter Twitter, Facebook Facebook, or MySpace MySpace credentials and then having your messages broadcast as status updates, [...]

100 Excellent Twitter Feeds for Art Scholars

The Internet is overflowing with resources for art historians and art scholars, and as an online student, you’re probably encouraged to tap into all of the blogs, galleries, image collections and study materials found online. But if you want a constant stream of art discussion, news and artist profiles for the sake of your own [...]

Museummedia on Twitter has 800 followers!

http://twitter.com/museummedia 800 followers! Thanks a lot, and we do our best to tweet usefull things!