tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post1054769561788174629..comments2024-03-07T06:04:27.839-08:00Comments on Museum 2.0: Educational Uses of Back Channels for Conferences, Museums, and Informal Learning SpacesNina Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723930679606298550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-33758623625342130192009-03-04T14:23:00.000-08:002009-03-04T14:23:00.000-08:00hi Nina,your post got me to thinking about all of ...hi Nina,<BR/><BR/>your post got me to thinking about all of the places that Museums and the Web is on the web in an almost permanent backchannel <A HREF="http://conference.archimuse.com/forum/mw2009_and_permanent_backchannel" REL="nofollow">i posted here</A>. <BR/><BR/>one of the things that you don't mention is the use of a backchannel at the conference as a social bridge between sessions and between people. we saw that a lot with twitter at MW2008, particulary with Europeans who weren't keen on using roaming phones: there was a fair amount of "heading out to ..." venue-based tweeting, and some "anybody seen ..." when people were trying to meet up.<BR/><BR/>it's also struck me that some parts of the backchannel are designed to be ephemeral [e.g. twitter], while others are more persistent [e.g. liveblogging, or almost-live blogging + the <A HREF="http://conference.archimuse.com" REL="nofollow">conference.archimuse.com</A> site]. i think this has an influence on who says what, where. chat seems like a really temporally defined space, and blog postings more likely to last. twitter is somewhere in between. <BR/><BR/>we tried to bridge the on-line and the on-side at MW2008 by using a large monitor in the main conference lobby area to display the combined MW2008 feed [thanks to Mike Ellis @ Electronic Museum for that] <A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=onetag%20mw2008&w=all&s=int" REL="nofollow">see photos on flickr</A>. This helped a bit for people who didn't know the tools to start with... + many of the people chairing panels were watching the twitter feed.<BR/><BR/>in a <A HREF="http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2008/04/live-blogging-from-museums-and-web.html" REL="nofollow">quick blog post</A> last year you remarked on the usefulness of the feed coming out of MW2008. that convinced me to try and avoid too much self-censorship when live at a meeting, particularly if i'm not likely to blog it later. let's see if you feel the same when when you're at <A HREF="http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/" REL="nofollow">MW2009</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-634312142844486092009-03-03T13:12:00.000-08:002009-03-03T13:12:00.000-08:00Really interesting stuff, here Nina! I just atten...Really interesting stuff, here Nina! I just attended the CAM conf last week, and would have really appreciated some *useful* backchannels for ways to engage in the topics at hand at a deeper level or from a different perspective than was happening at the front of the room. <BR/><BR/>It would be interesting to attend a session where one of the "presenters" wasn't at the front of the room sloshing through powerpoint, but rather, in the audience twittering or TodaysMeet chatting with those who wanted to explore the same topic from different perspectives.<BR/><BR/>PS - your name came up in one of the technology sessions - just want you to know you are a recognized resource. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37032121.post-46644188904492595012009-03-03T10:50:00.000-08:002009-03-03T10:50:00.000-08:00Great post, Nina. My anecdotal experience of the m...Great post, Nina. My anecdotal experience of the multiple backchannels at WebWise last week fits nicely into your more inclusive model above. Watching the Today'sMeet and Twitter (search) feeds most of the time, I chimed in on Today'sMeet with a URL in response to a fellow onsite attendee's query, and ended up only lurking in Twitter due precisely to the differently scoped readership you note (and my sense that I didn't have anything worth broadcasting to that more geographically dispersed group). It was great to have both of those channels available--and somehow I never did stop to read the bulletin board notes....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com