Last year I spoke to some of you about an interesting article I read on maNexus called 'Back at Reality Ranch: Social Media Pioneers and Defenders of the Fort'. It discusses the gap between the Government's position that all government departments should be embracing social media as part of their normal work practices versus many museum workers (especially curators - his words not mine!!!) reluctance to get on board.
As an example of an organisation that is getting on board he cited the State Library of Queensland who have encouraged their staff to complete a program they have set up known as 'Licence 2 Test Drive'. Basically this is a six step self-guided online course that takes you through lessons and activities on blogging, RSS feeds, wikis, photo sharing, social networking and tagging. The course is set up to be completed in 1 hour per fortnight over 12 weeks.
I have had a little explore and think that it is a really great way to get quite a lot of knowledge under your belt very quickly. Obviously we would have to customise the rules a bit for ourselves. For example, in the first lesson you have to create your own blog on the Web but there are simple steps you can take to make it private. We would also not be saving things to the Licence 2 Test Drive site but rather monitoring things ourselves.
Even if you just take the time to watch the videos and click through all the links I guarantee you will learn the answers to many of those questions you have been too afraid to ask! There have been discussions about putting this activity on our Performance Plans when we re-assess them in the coming months so you will also be getting brownie points there too!
In the meantime, have a peek and start the New Year by exploring some unknown territory.
Caz
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I will certainly have a look at this caz
ReplyDeleteI am quite excited about this program as you can tell. I've learnt lots of new things already!
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