The NewCurator Twitter Acquisitions/Disposal Policy
Posted in Museum Expansionism, Presentism, Technology on 22. Mar, 2009
The NewCurator twitter account will follow:
1) People who work in or with museums or directly related to the museum industry
2) Artists, Arts Organisations and Galleries
The NewCurator twitter account hopes that the accounts it follows will act as a definite list for people interested in these fields, so will aim to follow as many os possible.
The NewCurator twitter account will allow anyone to become a follower, as long as:
1) They are a real person
2) They are genuinely interested
The NewCurator twitter account will block any other accounts who are:
1) Bots and “zombies”
2) Bad attempts at advertising
3) Follower-hoarders, meaning having far too many followers and not related to museums and art, making there no chance in making a connection and saying anything meaningful.
4) Offensive.
NewCurator will:
1) Try to respond to all @s and DMs. Don’t be shy, I like hearing from people and will try to answer all questions.
2) NOT respond to “welcome DMs” that say nonsense like “thanks for following” like I just signed up to your newsletter. NOR will I DM you saying anything similar.
3) Use twitter to announce blog updates
4) Ask strange museum-related questions and crowd-source answers.
5) Promote others
6) Talk to you like a human.
This is great. Permission to adopt?
Please do. Let me know what you come up with
I like it a lot. I’ve had to grumble on facebook and make a similar sort of manifesto about non-relevant people friending me (sorry, girls who were mean to me in grade 3- I’ve never forgotten the time you told me that I ‘don’t belong’ in the girls washroom, and I really don’t remember a time when we were ever friends!).
Curiously, most of the people who follow me on twitter are either a) cool people worth knowing in my locale, or b) relevant to my museological and/or textiles interests (or, to a lesser extent, c) people active in my way-too-numerous hobbies who seem to be worth following too!).