MW2006 BoW: The Port Moody Station Museum Blog

Thank you for nominating The Port Moody Station Museum Blog
[http://portmoodystationmuseum.blogspot.com] for the Innovative
category.

Institution: The Port Moody Station Museum
Designer[s]: Azra Habib, Oana Capota & Matthew Musselman
Explanation:
The Port Moody Station Museum Blog is one of the earliest museum
blogs around; it began, in its previous incarnation, in August 2004
and was refurbished for a more readable look and more professional
content in April 2005.

As a small museum, with only one permanent staff member and any
number of part-time contract workers, the blog is updated by staff
and volunteers. It gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the
work in maintaining a small non-profit museum: fundraising events,
displays changes, maintenance work on the historic building,
cataloguing artifacts, and so on. The community, through the
blogging commenting system and email, can get involved.

While large art museums are beginning to use the blog as a museum
tool, the Port Moody Station Museum Blog shows what a small community
museum can achieve on a much more limited scale.

Oana Capota
Museum Assistant
Community Relations
Port Moody Station Museum
Canada
www: http://portmoodystationmuseum.blogspot.com

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after March 24, 2006.

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Thank you for your interest in Museums and the Web -- we hope to see
you at MW2006!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
MW2006 Conference Co-Chairs