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 more

• photos from our free pre-conference evening event and UKMW13 are on our Flickr account. If you have photos on Flickr, please add them to the MCG events group.
• slides from our evening speakers are on Slideshare
• UKMW13 session details and most presentation slides are online
• Jessica Suess, Oxford ASPIRE Officer: Highlights: UK Museums and the Web 2013
• Mike Linstead, York Museum Trust:Museum Computer Group Conference
• Alex Moseley’s ‘Fun, games and people power at #ukmw13’ UK Museums on the Web 2013
• Linda’s ‘Museums on the web’ MCG Conference 2013 part 1 and ‘Museums on the web’ MCG Conference 2013 part 2
• Harriet and Catherine from People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK Museums on the Web 2013: ‘Power to the people’
• Perry Bonewell’s The wisdom of crowds – UK Museums and the Web 2013
• Franziska Mucha, Historisches Museum Frankfurt’s Von Armsessel-Detektiven, Käsepferden und Safari-Snapshots
• A storify of #UKMW13 tweets
• Mia Ridge’s Collaboration, constraints and cloning and ‘the open museum’: notes from UKMW13
• Nicole Cama’s ‘Power to the People’: UK Museums on the Web 2013

Some important thank-yous…

We had a great turn out for ‘museum geeks on a boat (AKA our pre-conference evening event‘ – thanks to Michael Guthrie for finding such a fun venue, Andrew Lewis for shepherding people through fast and furious format, and our speakers for being good sports.

Adrian Murphy, Horniman Museum and Gardens gives a lively Ignite session on-board the Tattershall Castle

MCG’s Museums on the Web is organised by a committee of volunteers. Event and AGM preparation and planning: Rhiannon Looseley, Adrian Stevenson, Alison Bean, Mia Ridge, with support from Danny Birchall, Dafydd James, Michael Guthrie. Thanks to today’s photographer, Tony Harris, to our Session Chairs: Andrew Lewis, Irida Ntalla, Anra Kennedy, Juno Rae, and the UKMW13 Programme Committee: Tom Grinsted; Irida Ntalla; Dafydd James; Carolyn Royston; Ross Parry; Melissa Terras and our fabulous game designer Alex Moseley. Thanks also to our hosts at Tate who did so much to help the event come together. Finally, thanks to all the brilliant keynotes and speakers!

AGM summary

The proposed Constitutional changes were approved and we elected two new Committee members: Johanna Pérez Strand and Julie Reynolds.

We’d like to thank the Committee members leaving us this year for all their contributions: Gemma Sturtridge, Emma McLean, Denise Drake, Adrian Stevenson, Tony Harris, Carolyn Royston.

With many thanks to our UKMW13 sponsors, Axiell Adlib & CALM
Break Time sponsors, Squiz	Lunch Time sponsors, Stickyworld

Spring 2014 event…

More details to follow, but it looks like our Spring event will be in Bristol in late May.