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The challenges of engaging enthusiasts online

Using social media as a tool for dialogue and knowledge sharing

13 April 2013Merel van der Vaart

Numbers are relative…

Pictures we shared on Facebook

It’s a very complicated machine, even for us, let alone for the general public and so to explain it in simple terms is essential.

Katie on fluidradio.co.uk

But there’s a step-up in the biscuit quality from Blythe House: Jaffa Cakes and fancy coffee creams. Better coffee, too. We’ve arrived.

John on djdownfall.com

We pointed people towards our co-creators’ blogs

We shared questions we were struggling with

We sourced loan objects

And we're open! Somebody forgot her camera today, so no pictures unfortunately.

Oramics Machine

Here's a bunch of them from yesterday…

Audible Smile

It's always very frustrating when things go wrong. Thanks to you and Karen the New Media Team were informed about the problem early in the day and they are working hard to solve it.

Oramics Machine

Make your own tape loop

Lily Pavey’s Musikriter

Our volunteers wrote blogs.

Dialogues happened without our interference.

Daphne made music for TV shows and commercials (…)

Imagine that the producer of Our World, the 1967 TV programme that first linked the world via satellites, had commissioned Daphne

Oram, the pioneer of electronica, to make its soundtrack.

The challenges of engaging enthusiasts online

Using social media as a tool for dialogue and knowledge sharing

13 April 2013Merel van der Vaartm.j.vandervaart@uva.nl