I ran across a blog/project last month that I thought might interest Net2 folks, E-Artcasting: Sociable Technologies in Art Museums (English + Espanol).  According to the blog's profile, it is produced by a group of Fulbright Scholars from around the world, and is directed by Pilar Gonzalo.  In addition to a blog, they also have a wiki, a Flickr stream, a del.icio.us account, and a Listible list.

We had a small but lively group last night at the San Francisco Net Tuesday. Raphe Patmore, CEO, and Jinnan Cai, Technical Director, from Buzka were there all the way from Perth, Australia. Buzka is "a simple way to share all your favorite web stuff" in what they call "spots." For example, Jinnan showed me the Refugee Detention spot he created (screenshot above) to share links about refugee issues in Australia. The interface is easy to navigate, and you can view the links by title, description or thumbnails (they have a server creating screenshots of the pages).

Dan Bernstein of Business and Marketing from Meebo, "the web messenger that lets you access IM from absolutely anywhere," showed us how a fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Uppman, put the Meebome widget on her classroom web site so that students and their parents can IM her about homework and other stuff. Cute!!

Dan also told us about a couple cool librarian sites: the Library and Information Technology blog and I Am a Librarian, which promotes instant messaging in libraries.

Finally, Craig Rosa told us about a discussion happening this week on the ASTC (Association of Science-Technology Centers) forum about social technologies. He said that one thread of the discussion was about how Flickr has become a money-saving tool for museums looking for images.

 
A couple weeks ago at the San Francisco Net Tuesday, I got to talking with Craig Rosa, the I.T. Director for The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, and he told me about a site called MuseumBLOGS.org that has a directory of 68 museum and museum-related blogs.  You can search by Blog Age, Date Added, A-Z, or by Topic.

I also met Leslie Madsen-Brooks this summer at the BlogHer Conference, who is the writer of the blog, museumblogging.com.  She has a pretty extensive blogroll of museum-related blogs and her most recent post is about Museums and Second Life.

Craig also reminded me that the 2007 Museums and the Web Conference will be held in San Francisco April 11-14th, so save the date!  If you want to present, the deadline for Program Proposals is September 30, 2006, and demonstration proposals will be accepted through December 31, 2006.

You can check out the Museums and the Web blog, Flickr pool and online community here.

 

 

SFMOMA produces a podcast called, Artcasts.  If you show your MP3 player loaded with the current SFMOMA podcast at the Museum box office, you get $2 off admission.

 

They are also inviting the public to create their own Artcasts for SFMOMA as part of the Artscasts invitational:

You may have heard about the irreverent audio guides that students from Marymount Manhattan College created for exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art.

Here is a list of all the museums I could find who are taking the leap from audio guide to podcasts.  Please add more to the list!

Austrailian War Museum
http://www.awm.gov.au/podcast/index.asp

Bronx Museum of Arts: museRadio by the Bronx Teen Council