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UKMW11 Blog Posts
As a follow up to the 2011 UK Museums on the Web Conference please see below a list of blogs that will hopefully be useful for those that attended on the day, followed it online or that couldn’t make it.
Blogs
Oonagh Murphy (official blogger for the day): The Innovative Museum: Part 1 & Part 2
Danny Birchall, [...]
UK Museums on the Web 2011: The innovative museum: creating a brighter future
Date: 24 November 2011
Pre-UKMW11 networking and drinks event, the Marlborough Arms, 36 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HJ from 5.30pm.
Date: 25 November 2011
Venue: IWM London (find out how to get to IWM London)
Tickets for UKMW11 are now on sale at http://ukmw11.eventbrite.com.
The annual UKMW conferences, convened by the Museums Computer Group, have long been the place for [...]
Sober social media, mobile chaos and conversations
[This week's guest post is written by Shelley Mannion is Digital Learning Programmes Manager at the British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre]
Four recent events have prompted me to think about trending topics in digital heritage:
- Museums and the Web 2010;
- Museums, Mobile Devices and Social Media;
- MuseumNext;
- Museums & Heritage Show
This post gave me the [...]
Thoughts on the MCG Spring Meeting 2010
[This week's guest post is by Rhiannon Looseley, E-Learning Officer (Web), Museum of London, and MCG Committee member. It was originally published on her blog]
Early (very early) on Thursday morning, I got up and got the 7.03 train from Euston to Birmingham for this year’s Museums Computer Group (MCG) Spring Meeting. The theme of the [...]
Web Preservation the UKOLN way
Marieke Guy
I’m Marieke Guy and I’m a research officer at UKOLN. UKOLN is a centre of excellence in digital information management based at the University of Bath. Although we have library roots (we used to be the UK Office for Library and Information Networking) and are now primarily funded by the JISC who provide leadership [...]