Taking on the online social persona of a cultural organization is a huge undertaking that can not be understated. While working at The Franklin Institute I played the role of @thefranklin and experimented with different voices. At the time not many museums were on Twitter and the ones that were used the [...]

While sitting in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the most recent DC Mobile Collaborations Meetup and listening to all of these Institutions on the National Mall talk about how they “should”, “possibly”, “plan”, to evaluate different channels of social media and how / what it means to their institutions. At this [...]

The Brooklyn Museum recently opened an API for their online collection. In and of itself this is impressive and awesome but the collection was just put online a mere six months ago. Allowing access to all of the collection data is a huge achievement for researchers, individuals and countries of [...]

Last night was the March installment of Refresh Philly. It was a good time which started out with pitches from some projects born out of BarCamp Philly such as HealthCampPhiladelphia, BarCamp NewsInnovation, and HigherEdCamp. Its great to see more niche programs and projects grow out of social media using the [...]

Last night I attended The Junto at P’unk Ave in South Philadelphia where the topic was ‘Rethinking The Library’. The topic of the library as a whole in Philadelphia conjurs up intense debate as many of our branches were set to close due to budgetary issues. Last night a panel [...]