UK Museums on the Web 2013: ‘Power to the People’ Session details This page has presentations from sessions at UKMW13, held at Tate Modern. London, 15 November 2013 Chair’s Opening notes for Museums on the Web 2013: ‘Power to the people’. Opening Keynote Lessons the Guardian has learnt about community engagement online Hannah Freeman, Guardian Community […]
Jesse Alter is Web Producer at IWM, where he is responsible for planning, creating and managing content for IWM’s website and social media channels. Follow him on twitter: @jesse_a , @I_W_M Nicole Cama works as a Curatorial Assistant in Digitisation as the Australian National Maritime Museum. She investigates, researches and writes stories about the thousands of objects […]
To get juices flowing ahead of UK Museums on the Web 2013: ‘Power to the people’, on Thursday 14 November 2013 the MCG Committee invited people to the traditional and well-loved pre-conference bash for a relaxed, sociable #drinkingaboutmuseums evening. This was open to all and best of all free. This was a most enjoyable evening of informal networking and […]
The Museums Computer Group’s 2013 Museums on the Web conference was held at Tate Modern on 15 November 2013. The theme for UKMW13 was ‘Power to the people’ and the event was sold out a few weeks in advance. Photos, speaker slides and event reports from some lovely attendees are available on our UKMW13 round-up […]
Guest blog post by Mairead Quinn On the 30th May 2013 Oonagh Murphy and Alan Hook from the University of Ulster hosted a Museums Computer Group conference on play and digital technology in museums. This event brought together delegates from across the museum, community and academic sectors to explore and showcase the innovative use of digital […]
The Museums Computer Group’s 2013 Museums on the Web conference will be held at Tate Modern on 15 November 2013. The theme for UKMW13 is ‘Power to the people’. There’s a post answering some Frequently Asked Questions on the MCG list. We are interested in proposals on topics such as: projects that integrate public participation […]
The MCG are hosting a Failure Swapshop and we’d like to invite you be part of it! The Swapshop is a light-hearted way for us to learn from each other and where the emphasis is not on the failure itself, but on what happened next. We’re looking for two or three people willing to share […]
The MCG Committee are pleased to announce our Spring meeting: Engaging Visitors Through Play Museums Computer Group hosted by the Centre for Media Research Event reports: Event blogger Mairead Quinn’s Engaging Visitors Through Play Museums Association ‘Game on’ by Mia Ridge Maeve O’Brien’s Digitising Information in the online era… 21st Century Plath! Alex Moseley’s Engaging Visitors […]
[Each year we have an official event blogger to help make sure people who can’t attend our events can get a sense of the conversations and hot topics on the day. It’s also a lovely chance to introduce some new voices to the wider museum community. This time our official blogger was Rachel Kasbohm (@rekasbohm). […]
I thought I’d post my notes for the Chair’s Welcome to UK Museums on the Web: UKMW12 ‘Strategically Digital’, partly because it gives me a chance to re-thank everyone who helped make UKMW12 such a fantastic event. In the same spirit of sharing and transparency we’ll also post reports from the AGM. “Hi, I’m Mia […]