UK Museums on the Web 2013: ‘Power to the people’

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UK Museums on the Web 2013: ‘Power to the people’

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 […]

Engaging Visitors Through Play

 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 […]

Engaging Visitors Through Play – MCG Spring Meeting – 30 May 2013

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 […]

‘UKMW12: Strategically Digital’ from our official event blogger

[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). […]

Chair’s welcome at UKMW12

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 […]

UKMW12 round-up

As well as sharing the speaker’s slides and audio (below), we’re sharing blog posts and other reports from UK Museums on the Web: UKMW12 ‘Strategically Digital’. If you’ve written about the event let us know in the comments or on twitter (@ukmcg) and we’ll add the link. If you’ve taken photos, please tag them ukmw12 […]

Your blog posts and tweets about ‘Engaging digital audiences in museums’

‘Engaging digital audiences in museums’ was another successful Museums Computer Group regional event, and it was even better because it was co-created with the Digital Learning Network. Here are some of the great reports and blog posts people wrote after attending ‘Engaging digital audiences in museums’: Learning and Technology sitting in a Museum Shaped tree…EngageM Take […]

Guest blogging the Engaging Digital Audiences in Museums conference

For our joint conference with Museums Computer Group (MCG), we invited two bloggers to record the event – Nadja Ryzhakova used her iPad to capture the day in pictures and Laura Martin provided a written summary. Their work is shown below: On July 11th 2012, under the title ‘Engaging Digital Audiences in Museums’, professionals from museums […]

‘learn about the most recent digital advances in the museum community’

A nice mention of the MCG’s UK Museums on the Web in Time magazine, ‘Un-Stuffy Museum: The Louvre Goes High-Tech with Video-Console Guides‘: “…partnerships are valuable as technology evolves faster than any museum alone can follow. At conferences like MuseumNext in Barcelona or Museums and the Web in the U.K. and U.S., institutions from around […]

UKMW11 Blog Posts

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 […]

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