John Falk, Rethinking the Museum Visitor Experience

John Falk, Rethinking the Museum Visitor Experience

Lawton's 2010 Big Read event continues with a special presentation by

Selby Minner & Blues on the Move

Free and open to everyone

Friday, March 19 from 6:30 till 8:30 p.m.

at the Museum of the Great Plains

601 NW Ferris Avenue Lawton Oklahoma

Spring Break

If you're looking for a fun place to be this spring break, head our way! Not only do we currently have two terrific new hands-on exhibits -the Mystery of the Mayan Medallion and 3-2-1- Blast - we will ALSO have the Science Matters Mobile Museum here on Friday! Yea!!
As far as the Mobile Museum goes, I think everyone's favorite components have been Hack the System, and the Obstacle Course. I think I have a picture of our former mayor, John Purcell trying out the Pulley Chairs which are on the outside of this huge "truck of science" and also a lot of fun!
Hope to see you soon!

Admission to go inside the Science Matters Mobile Museum? It's FREE!

For more information visit our Website.

Museums, Social Media and PR

I wonder how many museums are currently using social media to support and promote their museum's mission and programs in our state of Oklahoma. In terms of using social media, here are a few things I learned this past Friday at a volunteer management conference in Grand Prairie Texas, from presenter Ashley Hyder, Manager, Public Relation & Communications ahyder@vcnt.org www.vcnt.org, "To Tweet or Not to Tweet":

- there are now 400 million Facebook users worldwide, and 57 million Myspace users... This website was shared at the conference.

- first and foremost LISTEN to and respond to what your followers are saying. Be authentic.

- know your goals and objectives

- plan a strategy that will work for your organization

I happened to sit next to the web designer for the Texas Volunteer Management Conference and his advice was to use social media to build visitation to our main website. Sure enough, I found more information on this idea in one of Ashley's handouts. The content is from Online Marketing Blog. Under "Have a Destination and Draw Users Back". First line reads, "Without some sort of destination to draw users back to and funnel subscribers, you'll never achieve successful web community building that is protected from the rise and fall of social networks. My destination is our museum's website, which, by the way, is being redesigned and will include a new logo! So, if I understood correctly, I should use tag words to build up our chances of being pulled up during random searches. ...which is how this tag box is used below my post. Hmm. I didn't realize its importance.