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Introduction
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Advertise/Inform
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Publish Holdings
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Education Outreach
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Networking
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Partnerships
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Publishing on the Web
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Resources
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Networking

Internet technologies have allowed professionals in all disciplines to talk and collaborate with each other and share best practices.

Technologies:

• email
  • mailing lists
  • database driven applications
• listservs
  • software designed to mail to and administer a community of subscribers
  • http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/
  • http://www.michigan-writers.org/list.html
• forums
  • a bulletin board of threaded conversations archived and searchable for additional use
  • http://forums.museophile.net/
  • http://www.civics-online.org/teachers/cases.cfm

Kinds of Networks:

• Patrons
  • Special events/collections
  • News letter
  • Promotions
  • Talk about art

 

• Donors/Members

• Specific lists for specific purposes
• Fund raising
• Updates and special previews

• Museum Community
  • Best practices
  • Collaborations
  • Share resources

• Teachers and Scholars
  • Set- up ways for teachers to talk with each other and you
  • Teachers can exchange information like the ways they used or structured their museum trip and activities generated out of the visit
  • Sounding board for museum practice and generating content for your site
  • Talk and collaborate with artists