Back from AAMing
May 18th, 2007So, I’m back in STL after a week’s worth of AAM conferencing in Chicago. I had a great time, there were some pretty good sessions, and of course, it’s always nice just visiting Chi-town. My co-worker Elise, who’s the assistant registrar here at the Pulitzer, went also and between the two of us, I think we covered a LOT. I’ll try to coerce her to write something soon about some of the registrar-esque things she’s learned (I know she’ll be really excited about this…).
I noticed this year there seemed to be more website sessions than usual (or maybe I just went to more), but overall you could tell that the importance of the web to museums is really taking hold. Last year there was a blog session (though there wasn’t any this time, which was too bad) and this year, there were mulitple sessions talking about web 2.0 and the growing trend of user participation on museum websites. One of these sessions created a blog about the topic, if you’re interested in taking a look. They also have a nice sidebar of links to various examples of user participation — some of them were new to me (I thought the Tate’s “Write your own label” section was an interesting idea). Anyway, check it out and I’ll write more about AAM as I think of things!
