Earlier this week I suggested that we should organised a ‘follow a museum’ day on Twitter to encourage people to spread the word about all the great museums who tweet.
This idea received several hundred mentions on Twitter within hours and along with comments posted on this blog, these encouraged me to create a portal for this initiative (www.followamuseum.com).
This website will be central to follow a museum day, but the real work will take place on February 1st, and we need everyone who wants to promote museums to play a role and tweet to encourage people to follow a museum.
Your tweet might look something like this ‘February 1st is follow a museum day, who will you follow? PLEASE RETWEET #followamuseum’.
Adding ‘ please retweet’ is very important, as research shows that a message containing this is more likely to be retweeted (honestly, it works).
I hope everyone will get involved…
[...] Idee stammt von Jim Richardson, dem Betreiber des Museum Marketing Blog. Für die Aktion hat er eine eigene Website eingerichtet, auf der alle Infos zu finden [...]
I’m so glad you took the initiative to make a mini site and lists for this (as I’d hoped/suggested in a previous comment!). I’m really excited and going all I can to promote #followamuseum day from all my twitter accounts! I am hoping we might dig up a few more museums in Italy – there are so few, but I fear your list may be accurate.
I love this idea! I will put this in my calendar and tweet about it on Feb 1st.
Jessica
Jim, You’ve done a great job with this, and in such a short space of time. Are there any tools that your Follow a Museum site can offer museums to help them do two things:
a) measure the effectiveness of this campaign in gaining new followers?
b) for museums (and indeed the rest of us) to see the geographic spread, or otherwise, of their followers. I suspect most smaller museums love seeing the world-wide spread of their followers and the impact of their stream, but I guess they also need to prove to their funding bodies that most interest is coming from within their locality and that they are effectively targeting their resources with that area.
It is a great idea!!!
How can I include my museum in the list of Greek museums?
Thanks in advance
Would you please add Storm King Art Center to your list as well? We are the largest outdoor sculpture park in the United States with over 120 large scale sculptures exhibited throughout our 500 acres of outdoor galleries. Our name on Twitter is StormKingArtCtr. Thank you for this wonderful idea!
Fantastic idea! Any chance you can add @thedockarts to the Irish Directory please? Looking forward to Feb 1st
M
We want to take part too! Please include @RhythmDiscovery (in the USA) to your list. Thnx!
Hi could you add us to the list too please, we’re in Surrey, UK
@RLCMuseum
thanks!
Hi,
Could you, please, add us to the list of museums in Brazil. We are in Brumadinho and our twitter is @inhotim
Thanks and congratulations for the initiative.