It seems like an age ago that I blogged about the use of the web, particularly blogging, to communicate better issues related to heritage conservation, particularly as it is a field in the broader heritage sector which is perhaps most shrouded in mystery. Communication has tended to be aimed purely at the professional with public understanding of conservation lower than it might be.
ICOMOS-UK’s new website, based around a blog, is now live. After a marathon month of literally pulling up the hand-break on this web project and changing direction, a completely new and different approach was taken to help the organisation make the most of the web and its audience: quickly and all on a shoe-string [note: what on earth are 'shoe-strings' in this sense?] Without going into too much detail about the background to this, the original plan for a redeveloped website, overseen and directed by me, especially the creation of new content, but technically put together by a company who had promised to sponsor the project, fell through.
Continue reading ‘New International Heritage and Conservation News blog’
A superb example of how blogging can work for a museum (or any heritage organisation), is exemplified by the National Museums Liverpool blog.
I visited it a while ago, when it was first set up, hoping that it would be successful. I’m always pleased to see bold experiments with technology in the heritage sector. I couldn’t remember exactly when the blog started (March 2006), so I flicked back in time using the calendar at the top right of the page. Days where content was posted are coloured orange, and I was very impressed to see that this was at worst one post per week. Some weeks went by with a post every day. Great work!
I had a quick look at their blog rank in Technorati, and they’re doing rather well at 148,150, with 269 inbound links from 26 blogs. That’s soon to be slightly increased after I post this..
They even have an account on Flickr.
I wonder when they will become bold enough to enable comments though?
Links: National Museums Liverpool Blog, National Museums Liverpool Flickr Photos
Just a quick note to alert people to a new blog called “On Boundaries“. It’s run by a duo consisting of a theoretical physicist (reivers) and a medieval scholar (gesta), who will use the blog to explore the boundaries that are arbitrarily drawn between the two approaches to understanding the world.
There’s not much on there at the moment, but I love the idea of people teaming up to look at interactions between such different subject areas. How different are they really?
The point of the title reflects the differences between the authors. reivers is a scientist, of very theoretical bent. gesta is a medievalist, perfectly happy with the description of “mathematically challenged”. It’s often said that there is a boundary or a dividing line between the two approaches. We shall see how much it comes across. More importantly, I hope that we’ll see how much of that boundary is really artificial.
From: http://border.wordpress.com/2006/06/11/beginning/
Good luck to them, I for one will stay subscribed and see what happens…
