Tag: social media and museums
Choosing an Identity on Social Media Sites for Museums, Zoos, Aquariums, and Visitor Centers
by Bruce on Apr.07, 2010, under Web
Along the social media vein that I was talking about in my last post, I came across a great tool that institutions should consider checking out if they’re diving into the social media/networking world. If you’re building an online brand for your museum, consistency is important in helping people know how to find you. If you have one user name on Twitter, another of Flickr, and a few others for Facebook, Digg, etc. Then when a user goes to look for you online, they’ll probably have only marginal luck finding you in these places. Check this out …
You can check the availability of user names across almost 150 popular sites, including Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Wordpress. Some of the sites might not be applicable for what you need to do, but if you haven’t established an identity yet on a number of these sites, then use namechk.com to see what user name would be available on the majority of sites. It saves a ton of time going to each one, and you can quickly try multiple names to find one that works.
