The mission of Museum Blogging is "to provide the best information on how museums and related institution...can use blogs and other online tools in support of outreach. In short, it's a blog about blogging.
Created by Leslie Madsen-Brooks, a consultant whose firm, TerraFirma Creative Group, designs websites and blogs for museums, Museum Blogging offers ideas on ways such institutions can best utilize the internet. One great example is her wonderful five-part series, "Percolations: Museums and Social Networking Sites," in which she discusses some of the advantages and drawbacks of using several well-known websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Madsen-Brooks offers examples of several institutions and their foray into this medium, including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum's MySpace page and the MoMA's Flickr project. She outlines in detail which sites offer the best features and tools for a particular demographic, often comparing and contrasting the sites to emphasize her point. The MySpace vs. Facebook debate found in Part II of the series includes a link to the interesting essay "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace."
Museum Blogging offers links to many other museum and history sites, several of which can be found on the link lists of my previously-discussed blogs. The lists do not mirror each other, however, and I've discovered several great sources of information.
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