Mario Bucolo Museums Blog

There is a lack of a unique thematic mailing list about marketing and communication in and for museums. The list can also operate as a forum between professional involved in mktg, comm and PR.
There is the PRAM list from the PR and Marketing committee of American Association of Museums that is the most active one, but it is not much aware on the European side.

I also think that it will be useful to create a forum/round-table of museums marketing and communication professionals.

There is the chance to create two version of the list, I waiting for opinion and ideas. One open to all people who can have interest in the field and one more professional oriented, open only to professionals with demonstrable references.

To be ready and concrete, I start to create the list

here the address to subscribe:

http://lists.museumland.net/listinfo.cgi/mmcl-museumland.net

Many thanks to all for cooperation.

My reader (wow…at least I have one reader…) Meya Laraqui send me an intersting email about PodcastGO.com where there is a dedicated museums channel where experience for free museums podcast like the PAAM by just uploading a video.

Thanks to Meya.

Dear museums bloggers, Jim Spadaccini propose to meet blogger at Museums and The Web conference in San Francisco. This will be a fantastic occasion, I’m very sad that I can’t be there, but another occasion will be AAM Conference in Chicago, in May and I will be there.  From AAM Boston, last year, I start the tentative to put together museums blogger with the first list of museums blogs in my blog, this goal was completed by Jim (Jim did you present a paper in Chicago?).

Consider that Museums and the Web is an event more oriented to colleagues inside IT sector, AAM conference is an event more generalist, where there are more people involved and more colleagues that need to be aware about museum blogs. So Chicago will be a good occasion to make more people aware.

There are a small but growing number of PDFs appearing in iTunes, users can subscribe to podcasts to automatically receive audio and video - and recently - PDF

Here a complete guide to PDF in iTunes

There are also example of PDF regarding museums.

It will be useful for museums to put PDFs in iTunes.

Hundreds of Museums are now in MySpace.

They use MySpace as a tool to attract new buddies and to announce events.

It is a useful tool, free!

Some of them are in my friend list
UPDATE: Sheila public something about “Gendered Museums on MySpace”…

Wow, I’m very happy to announce that it is online the 2007 Edition of Museumland.net updated database, new user interface, new graphics. It is in beta version, so probably there are some error. Please post here any critics, ideas, opinion.

BUT…check if your museum is linked in Museumland or use this form to inform us of your museum and PLEASE put a link to Museumland.net in your site, this will help all of us. Thanks.

There is a very popular site YouTube.com with millions of videos inside.

Searching for the word “museum” there are 4596 result, with video of every type about museums.

As hoped, Apple introduce a page in iTunes Store dedicated to podcast from Museums.

Go to iTunes Store (used the new iTunes 7) –> Podcast and there is a button Museum Tours

Today podcast from:

• Moma
• KQED Gallery Crawl
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Art Mobs MoMA Guides
• SFMOMA Artcasts
• Hirshhorn Museum
• Victoria & Albert Museum
• Tate Modern
• de Young
• Walker Art Center
• National Museum of American Indian
• Moca
• Vesailles vidéo
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Kansas State Historical Society
• Elteljorg Museum
• BYU Museum of Art
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Dr Peppe Museum
• iZoofari (San Diego)
• Every Object Tells a Story

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wow…after The Da Vinci Code and the perfect role of The Louvre, an entire movie dedicated to a Museum!

Night at the Museum, by 20th Century Fox, in Theatres December 22nd

Link to the Trailer

Link to the Movie web site

“An action-adventure-comedy that comes to life by night. Good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), despite being perpetually down on his luck, thinks he’s destined for something big. But even he could never have imagined how “big,” when he accepts what appears to be a menial job as a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of natural history.”

Shawn Levy (dir.)
Ben Stiller
Carla Gugino
Dick Van Dyke
Mickey Rooney
Robin Williams

Please, don’t forget to submit your museum or museum-related blog to the WebRing

Jim Spadaccini make a very well done job opening Museumblogs.org

Yesterday Apple open doors of new store at Fifth avenue. From the night before people create a line to access to the Apple Store. At 5pm all the plaza was full of people, till 1am there was person in line. Without any advertising, this the force of evangelism…I write early in this blog about importance of evangelism for museums.

Can happen in a museum what happens at Apple Store yesterday? In Boston at AAM Conference I attend a session about PR before grand opening of museums. 18, 7 months of works before the opening, million dollars of expense…

at 5pm

at 6pm

at 9pm

at 11pm

at 1am

…arf arf…it is difficult to follow every Google innovation…Google Video is not a news…but searching for “museum” I find 1027 results…so…related video!!!

We are very near to launch a revised new version of Museumland.net the worldwide Portal to museums and cultural heritage, with link to more than 15.000 museums and cultural heritage sites in 143 nations.

• Please post a comment on what you want to find in new version of Museumland…or post a comment, critics etc
  
• Please check if your museum is listed, and if information are update and correct. If not there is an online form to fill.
• Please insert a link to Museumland.net from your site, as more people will be aware about Museumland as more museums are worldwide visible.

thanks

Mario

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