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 projects and the need to pursue funding have been my main concerns of the week. On... 

[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 between 4 and 6 times more new followers than on an average day. Apart from the new followers,... 

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 read which they think are interesting, important, funny or just plain silly....