Update: our event summary post is at Museums Get Mobile round-up. Your day at MCG’s Museums Get Mobile Early tour of M Shed 9:45am – 10:30am led by Andy King and Lee Hutchinson. Meet in front of M Shed building at 9:40am, no need to book. 10.30-11.00 Registration with tea and coffee 11.00-11.15 Welcome Chair’s […]
We’ve worked with Henry Stewart Events to provide a £100 discount on tickets to DAM Europe 2014 – The Art and Practice of Managing Digital Media. They’re also interested in hearing from any of our members with real world case studies about digital media systems – if you have useful experiences to share, get in […]
Thank you UKMW13 was a lively conference with a great crowd, even trending on Twitter with the buzz created by your networking and conversations – proper power to the people! Hannah Freeman, Guardian Community coordinator for culture speaking about open journalism in her keynote at UK Museums on the Web 2013 Photos, blog posts and […]
Annual General Meeting 2013 15 November 2013, Tate Modern, London. Welcome Mia Ridge (Chair) welcomed everyone to the meeting and thanked the people who had arranged the event for all the work they had put in to make the meeting happen. Chair – Mia Ridge This was largely a year of consolidating changes that had […]
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 […]
Proposed MCG Constitution version 2.2 The bulk of the changes proposed have to do with the introduction of an ‘Advisory Board’. Other changes reflect current practices when there are more nominations than vacancies for Committee positions. We’ve also taken out specific prices for membership and replaced it with general pricing structure as agreed by a […]
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 […]