Book tickets now at: http://mcg-dlnet.eventbrite.com/. Room G.107 in the Alan Turing building, University of Manchester. Today, museums are finding more and more ways to use digital technologies to enhance their learning and public engagement programmes. Technology has tremendous potential to engage, excite and inspire people, to make learning more flexible and to cater for different learning... 

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, Wellcome Collection UKMW 2011 in brief Joshua Routh, cogapp Uk Museums on the Web... 

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... 

‘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... 

Since I’m not a member of the MCG Committee I’m allowed to say this: UK Museums on the Web 2010 was a great success. Not only because it had a record number of attendees in comparison to previous editions, but also because it gave museum professionals the opportunity to be informed and inspired in times that are tough and undoubtedly will get tougher still. Around the theme ‘Doing more with less:... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Building communities of interest with museum collections, libraries and museums - Effie Kapsalis, Martin Kalfatovic and Darren Milligan 30/10 Smithsonian is mandated to serve the public who... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] THATcamp unconference session: Mobile technology and the school field trip: can it work? – Wendy Jones and Jennifer Sly 30/10 Minnesota History Centre, wanted to look at 21st century learners,... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Case study session 2 29/10 Engaging viewers through touchless interactive art – Collin Hover and Seiji Ikeda This piece of webart is a bunch of particles which, using a webcam you can... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] THATcamp unconference session-  Visualizing Museum Collections The wiki for this theme is Museumviz.pbworks.com and examples of visualisation can be found on Museumpipes.wordpress.com Visualisations... 

[More live blogging from Gemma from the MCN 2010 conference, 'I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In' in Austin, Texas, to help MCGers keep up with the news and exciting research being shared at the conference.] Surveying the gap between the digital and physical visitors – John Gordy, Jessica Heimberg and Emily Skidmore 29/10 So popular that the session started with us relocating to a larger room National...