Interesting to attend a talk by Shelley Bernstein of Brooklyn Museum (NY). She talked about the way the museum uses Twitter, blogs, Flickr, webcams and other devices of social networking to create a community of interested people.

The talk was inspiring, and made me think about ways educational institutions could use these tools to create communities of practice. It’s a wee bit more fraught for us than for museums but hmmmmm it’s an area I think we are still toying with.

Nevertheless the talk from Shelley was inspiring and you can find the Brooklyn Museum on facebook, or on the various twitter or flickr and related sites.

Worth watching.

Update: Shelley is speaking and facilitating a workshop at Webstock 2010!