Thanks Gayle, very much, for your suggestions and comments. I believe that social networking systems have a great potential for museums. So far, however, I am seeing/reading a lot of marketing reminders. That's one way to use these systems and you're making others. However, I would hope that we'll see some of these systems being used by museums in such a way that they, the systems, emulate or duplicate the same engagement/experience-stimulating techniques being used for on-site presentations of collections and exhibitions. These techniques should always be evolving, of course, but a museum's entire range of communication methodologies should also consider some blending of the 'internal' and the 'external'.

Which leads me to a follow-up question. Has anyone felt or found that a particular networking system seems especially useful for a museum, whatever the intention? Why?

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