Not exactly the same thing as having your own institution's profile
BUT the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on a study
about maketing efforts using Facebook widgets:
http://www.tiny.cc/VdFHn
(ran on 7/2/07 - "Young Surfers Embrace Ad 'Widgets')
Producing widgets for you museum might be an interesting way to reach
out to your younger audiences.
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On Jul 10, 2007, at 11:33 AM, J. Trant wrote:
> Beth,
>
> There was a long thread about this on the UK Museum Computer Group
> list not too long ago. You can see the archive online at
> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind0707&L=mcg
>
> jt
>
> At 10:33 AM -0400 7/8/07, Beth Kanter wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Wondering if there any museums with a Facebook profile/group?
>> Anyone doing
>> anything interesting on Facebook?
>>
>> Beth Kanter
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