Hi Jamie,

I'm the main writer behind the Memphis Pink Palace Museum's blog: https://memphismuseums.wordpress.com/ We started our blog last spring as a joint venture between the marketing, collections and exhibits departments. We are in the midst of a major museum redesign, so I started out doing 250-500 word posts about the research I was doing. I've also done a small series about artistic representations of our museum. The post that got the most traffic was a Halloween post about disaster planning and zombies. I'm currently writing posts about things in our collection that I find interesting or collections that are related to current temporary exhibits or holidays. I try to write one a week as my other responsibilities allow. We distribute it through Twitter and Facebook. Our protocol is that one of the research staff writes the post and sends it to the marketing department to post on the blog. Marketing is responsible for the blog's administrative side and distribution.

Happy blogging!
Caroline

Caroline Mitchell Carrico
Exhibits Design Coordinator
Memphis Pink Palace Museum
(901) 636-2390



From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jamie Wilms
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 10:07 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Museum Blogs

Good Morning everyone!

I wanted to toss this question out to everyone and get some advice from my fellow listers!

We have a blog at the museum that was converted from an old volunteer newsletter.  It has turned into pieces about the house, upcoming events, programs, etc.  Articles are only written about 6 times a year (with exception of 2012-100th anniversary of Titanic).  Here is a link to the current blog: https://mollybrownbtl.wordpress.com/

I am wondering what other museums use their blogs for.  How often is it updated? Who writes the pieces?  How is it distributed?  I am looking to rework ours and would love any advice you could send my way.

Thank you in advance! :)

Jamie



Jamie Melissa Wilms
Director of Education
Historic Denver Inc.'s
Molly Brown House Museum
1340 Pennsylvania Street
Denver, CO 80203
303-832-4092 ext.17
www.mollybrown.org<http://www.mollybrown.org/>




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