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By: Photo of the Week - IMA Conservation on Flickr « NCMA Contemporaries

Photo of the Week - IMA Conservation on Flickr « NCMA Contemporaries — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:21:57 +0000

[...] Remember how we said we were going to beef up content on Flickr? Well, it has begun with this set of images documenting the anoxic treatment of a work of art by Thornton Dial. [...]

By: Photo of the Week - IMA Conservation on Flickr | Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:17:32 +0000

[...] Remember how we said we were going to beef up content on Flickr? Well, it has begun with this set of images documenting the anoxic treatment of a work of art by Thornton Dial. [...]

By: C. Lilian

C. Lilian — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:02:51 +0000

It’s true. Daniel is like a flickr-aholic or something, seriously.

By: co-curating the museum brand « small dots

co-curating the museum brand « small dots — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:58:09 +0000

[...] Indianapolis Museum of Art has been going great guns on this for some time, and there is a broad community of practice in the museum world that is [...]

By: Despi

Despi — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:15:26 +0000

Agreed. I think IMA, in its web efforts, has largely been willing to take these risks. With Flickr, it has been the limited scope of our projects that have really been the detriment, in my view.

We have inadvertently limited the possibilities by creating such specific goals rather than letting a community build a point of view from a less-directed prompt.

My hope is that we will keep taking risks and be less heavy-handed in our approach.

Thanks so much for reading and contributing!

By: The Urbanophile

The Urbanophile — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:55:14 +0000

It’s still early days in this medium. There are likely to be things that work and things that don’t. Sometimes different museum’s might have different experiences for perhaps random reasons. For example, I’m told that the social networking site of choice in Brazil is Google’s Orkut, though it never took off here.

My view is to err on the side of trying stuff, permissiveness, and openness to outside participation. Let projects take on a life of their own and if an experiment on the web doesn’t work out, that’s ok. The great thing about the internet is that it lets you fail fast and cheap, which should be the goal of a good innovation process.