[This week's guest post is by Jane Finnis, Director, Culture24] Portal pain and Wikipedia love Why is the European Commission still convinced that people want their online culture served up via a hideously named “one-stop-shop” portal? Last Wednesday, instead of watching the new episode of Mad Men, I... 

[This week's guest post is by Shona Carnall, Education Officer at the Museums and Heritage Service, Hartlepool Borough Council] This week I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the Bits 2 Blogs e-learning event at Teesside University, hosted by MLA. A fantastic event and with some inspirational speakers focussing... 

[This week's guest post is by Danny Birchall, editor of the Wellcome Collection website] A remarkable gallery closed its doors on Valentine’s Day. The Museum of Everything was a temporary collection of outsider art in a former recording studio in Primrose Hill. It brought together artists from beyond the... 

Linda Spurdle [This week's guest post is by Linda Spurdle, Online Resources Manager at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery] I think I may be cheating to focus on my week in ‘cultural heritage online’ rather than any big news stories, but worries about budget cuts, the desire to develop innovative... 

[This week's guest post is by Jasper Visser, CTO at the National History Museum NL] This week started strongly with Follow a Museum day. Jim wrote last week about putting it together and I guess everybody tweeting for a museum will agree it was a success. According to the comments most participating museums had... 

[This week's guest post is by Jim Richardson, Managing Director of Sumo, a specialist design consultancy working in the arts and cultural sectors and a co-founder of MuseumNext] The big technology news this week has undoubtedly been the iPad, which was announced by Steve Jobs in California on Wednesday. Whether you’re... 

[This week's guest post is by Bridget McKenzie, founder and CEO of Flow Associates] Taking the baton from Mike Ellis to share some links and comments on stuff this week, it’s been hard to focus on what I’ve found interesting in our profession, as my attention has been so taken by the disastrous earthquake... 

This is the first post in what will be a regular series from the MCG highlighting a few (read: totally non-exhaustive) interesting links, conversations and highlights from the web from the week just gone. Over the coming weeks we’ll be inviting guest authors to curate this post, writing about the things they’ve... 

Dec ’0929:30 am Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, V&A, London Fully booked! For over five years the annual UKMW conferences have been the place for high quality presentations and discussions on the matters that are shaping museums online today. The Sackler Centre By remaining in touch with the leading... 

Wednesday 2 December 2009 Sackler Centre for Arts Education, Cromwell Road London PROVISIONAL AGENDA Minutes of the last AGM at the London Transport Museum 19NOV2009 Apologies for absence Report from the Chair – Ross Parry Finance Report – Angus Kneale Constitutional ChangesConsider a proposal for a new constitution...