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This afternoon I am going to try and answer this question, What can social media do for oral history. I am going to look at a few examples which caught my attention and talk about what we can learn from these projects.

A platform for privat oral history

Success with digital media for museums, education and cultural organisations isn't about scrambling to sign up to the latest fads, those teasmades of technology, and more about attitudes of organisations and the individuals within them. What are the handles we can grab hold of to begin or better develop our journeys into digital media use in the world of exhibition, performances or engagement of new audiences? It tries to make a few points, some more successfully than others, no doubt. Key amongst them:- how to institutions do better what is now so easy for everyman to do?- is there anything to be learned from the world of startups where coming up with a compelling problem that needs solved? What are the problems museums manage to solve? Do they need to think in that way at all?- what potential is there for cultural organisations to open themselves up to new audiences by tackling the same content and ideas in alternative ways and on different platforms?

I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project, a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary. But what happened next is: Milk created a simple tool to invite visitors to augment the frames of the video with digital brushstrokes. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world.

Schauen Sie mal, was unsere Besucher zur Nam June Paik Ausstellung sagen! Sehen auch Sie sich die Ausstellung an und machen mit beim großen Paik Video-Projekt!

New Media: Sukiennice Museum shows Stories Behind the Paintings

Winning performance from the Museum's Gladiatorial poetry slam that took place in September. Young poets used the theme of Roman London (Londinium) as inspiration. The slam was part of the Museum's Stories of the World project in which young people aged 14-24 are interpreting collections in new ways and co-curating an exhibition for 2012. Filmed and edited by Rachel Nanyonjo and Jita Mitra.

So schnell kann man sein Lebenswerk per Online-Botschaft erschüttern: Ein US-Modedesigner liefert ein Lehrstück, wie man Twitter lieber nicht nutzen sollte. Eine unbedachte 140-Zeichen-Nachricht über die Unruhen in Kairo reichte aus, um die Web-Nutzer gegen ihn aufzubringen.

Google sammelt jetzt auch Kunst: Mit Street-View-Technik hat der Internetkonzern 17 weltberühmte Museen abfotografiert. Die haben für die virtuellen Rundgänge des Google Art Project mehr als 1000 Fotos von Gemälden und Objekten bereitgestellt.

A project by the MoMa. They asked their audience to tell their MoMa story. As a starting line they gave them the words: "I Went to MoMA and ...

This project presents a collective portrait of workers who keep New York City running. Their stories unfold in a series of multimedia profiles produced by students at the Columbia Journalism School.

London Wall is a physical manifestation of the invisible city all around us; a poetic snapshot of social networking traffic from within a three-mile radius of the Museum of London.

Twitter = Interactive Storytelling: the twitter thread

Twitter = Interactive Storytelling

There are lots of things you can do on Twitter besides tweet - and interactive storytelling just became one of them.

There are lots of things you can do on Twitter besides tweet - and interactive storytelling just became one of them.

Get inspired by the talk of Jonathan Harris at the 2007 Pop! Tech event - educative and entertaining, amusing and touching at the same time. Jonathan is the creator of inspiring and playful applications like "We Feel Fine" or "I Want You To Want Me".

Ein sorgfältiges web 2.0-Beispiel. Der Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und Schiller als Echtzeitblog mit RSS-Feed

We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps' by Charles Cumming

"Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to our broadcasts on public radio and the web."