What have we been up to on Facebook and Twitter? Let's cut out the stats and paste in some of the more interesting social media stories.

Statistics are an important part of our jobs in the Online, Editing & Audience Research team, but it's also necessary (and often more fun) to report on the qualitative side of social media. Here's a small sample of the many hundreds of stories from last month.

Over on Facebook, two of our collection officers proved very photogenic (as did some of our objects)...


Squid post

 

Another blog post about the Australian Museum Foundation's support of a special project became one of our most popular updates ever...

ghost net art

 

Musical group The Stiff Gins went on a creative journey through our Indigenous Collections...

The Stiff Gins

 

And, as always, a behind-the-scenes glimpse of a new display was very well received:

behind the scenes

 

On Twitter, we chatted with lots of people at our Menagerie exhibition launch including 60 Minutes' Charles Wooley...

Menagerie exhibition launch

 

Our ever-popular 'Drop Bear' page popped up again to at least one person with a great sense of humour...

drop bear post

 

We did our bit to relieve dinosaur tongue anxiety...

dinosaur tongue post

 

Catalyst's Pheromone Party got an interesting response...

Pheromone Party

 

And our staff photographer's blog post about a recent field trip was well-received too:

Field trip with the Am