Social media tools from Web 2.0 in museums conference

List of useful social media tools referenced during the conference, 5 & 6 March 2009.  This was organised by Museums Australia (Victoria) and Swinburne University in partnership with Melbourne Museum.  Attendees from SA, NSW, TAS, QLD, VIC and Europe participated in masterclasses and conference sessions exploring the uses of web 2.0 tools in museums and their websites.

Google Analytics

ReInvigorate

Compete (US websites only)

Alexa

– statistics on your website and how users interact with it

ClickDensity – heat maps of what users look at on your website

Google Trends – realtime search of ‘trends’ (i.e. keywords) referenced online

DomainTools – domain registration/look-up portal

FeedBurner – tool to manage and track multiple blogs

Flickr – online photo sharing site

StumbleUpon – sharing tool to recommend websites or particular pages to others (similar to Digg, Reddit, etc.)

Reddit – sharing tool (as above)

HowSociable? – tool to measure brand visibility in social media, i.e. how often your organisation is referenced in  Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Technorati, etc.

Twitter – similar to sending and receiving mass text messages.  Easier to show than tell.

WorldInternetProject – analysis and comment on global internet trends

NING/Museums 3.0 – blog ring for museums

1stfans @ Brooklyn Museum – online membership of Twitterers and bloggers with an interest in the Brooklyn Museum

Social media links from 5 Feb event, Melbourne

As a quick follow-up to last night’s Vic event on Web 2.0, science communicators and museums, I’ve put together a quick list of some of the social media/news references made during the discussion:

Transformations in Scientific & Cultural Communication conference details:
http://www.mavic.asn.au/events-training/2009/03/#56
http://nlablog.wordpress.com/conference-2009/

The 2008 version of the Transformations… event
http://nlablog.wordpress.com/conference-2008

Angelina Russo & Jerry Watkins’ home pages at Swinburne
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/ourpeople/staff/Angelina-Russo-ID50.html
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/ourpeople/staff/Jerry-Watkins-ID45.html

Niall Byrne’s details
http://www.scienceinpublic.com

Museums Australia (Victoria)
http://www.mavic.asn.au

Mythbusters
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mythbusters
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=25BA2E43B30816A7&playnext=1&v=QW0DocsxRmo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbusters

Colossal squid defrosted
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/English/CollectionsAndResearch/CollectionAreas/NaturalEnvironment/Molluscs/ColossalSquid/

Giant squid dissection
http://museumvictoria.com.au/giantsquid

CSIRO Publishing
http://www.publish.csiro.au/

Einstein A Go Go
http://einsteinagogo.net/about-2/

Melbourne Writers Festival
http://www.mwf.com.au/

Eureka Prizes
http://amonline.net.au/eureka/

Flickr groups
http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=australia+science+&m=names

Twitter
http://twitter.com/search/users?q=science
http://twitter.com/search/users?q=news

British wildlife surveys (public engagement)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/doonething/simple/surveys.shtml

An unsuccessful albatross tracking project (NB: not the one Niall referred to)
http://www.ladbrokes.com/bigbirdrace/bettingandform.html

ICOM definition of a Museum
http://icom.museum/definition.html

CERES
http://www.ceres.org.au/

‘Peter Mac’ (Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre)
http://www.petermac.org/