The MCG is approaching its 30th anniversary as a group (which personally feels pretty impressive in these times of constant change).  The world has changed quite a bit since we thought about MCG@25 in 2007, so the MCG Committee felt the approach of the group’s 30th anniversary is a good prompt to revisit past discussions and re-affirm our vision for the coming years. How can we support, connect... 

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 high quality presentations... 

The Museums Computer Group’s annual conference Museums on the Web ‘The innovative museum: creating a brighter future’ – UKMW11 – will be held at the Imperial War Museum in London on 25 November 2011. Join the MCG email list or follow @ukmcg on twitter for updates. The MCG committee often gets enquiries from people interested in speaking at our events about calls for papers.... 

‘Go Collaborate’ MCG Spring Meeting in partnership with Culture24 – Brighton – 17th June Friday 17th June 2011 10am to 5pm (arrival from 9.30am) Lighthouse 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ Now – perhaps more than ever – is a moment for the museum sector to look outwards and see the opportunities for collaboration. At a time when the sector’s governance is... 

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 in the use of ICT to support education and research) we have... 

The Museums Computer Group ‘UK Museums on the Web’ Conference 2010 hosted by the Museum of London Including a joint evening session with Wikimedia UK hosted at the British Museum The hashtag for this event was #ukmw10. Themes of the day: The UK cultural heritage sector is entering a turbulent period. The policy landscape is being reshaped, funding streams renegotiated and portfolios of... 

Rick Lawrence [This week guest poster Rick Lawrence, Digital Media Officer for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM), shares his museum's journey to a public Facebook page.] Following a discussion at our Spring Meeting in Birmingham I agreed I would post an account of how we persuaded our local authority to allow RAMM to have a Facebook page. Process and timescale Our first step in... 

On a recent balmy July evening, a number of people gathered in a pub in London to discuss ‘linking museums’.  Described as ‘a meetup for people interested in the applications of linked data, microformats, RDFa (etc) for museums and the cultural heritage sector’, it was organised and publicised largely over twitter and on the ‘museums and machine-processable data’... 

[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 day was ‘Programming, Promotion and Policy’ and... 

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