Dear all

Only one week today until the joint DLNET/MCG conference 'Engaging digital audiences in museums'. Places are filling up fast but there are still some available so get in quick if you'd like to come.  Book your place at: http://mcg-dlnet.eventbrite.com/.  NB I'll be making the badges on Monday so if you'd like one of our super duper badges (complete with handy information about you for other people, but also your programme for the day and a delegates list, all in one handy badge), you'll need to register before then.  

Also a reminder about the Manchester edition of #drinkingaboutmuseums (for background see http://www.meetup.com/coloradomuseums/ or http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2012/06/drinking-about-museums-new-york-edition.html) on July 10, the night before the conference.  If you're in town we'd love to see you there!  If you're planning on coming, please let Mia Ridge know ([log in to unmask]) to help plan numbers.

A quick reminder of the basic information about the conference is below. 

Hope to see you all next Wednesday

Rhiannon (on behalf of the MCG and DLNET committees) 

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We just wanted to remind you all about the forthcoming conference, curated jointly by the Museums Computer Group and the Digital Learning Network. The conference will bring together the two worlds of museum technology and museum learning and encourage them to talk and learn from each others’ skills and experience. Museums are finding more and more ways to use digital technologies to enhance their learning and public engagement programmes. Technology has tremendous potential to engage, excite and inspire people, to make learning more flexible and to cater for different learning styles and abilities.  In many museums, however, the work of learning departments and technology teams is still quite separate.

Museum technologists will learn about tried and tested techniques used by colleagues in Learning departments to measure the impact of digital projects on audiences. Learning teams will be inspired by the potential of digital technologies to achieve learning outcomes, audience engagement and reach.

**When is it?**

11 July 2012

**Where is it?**

Room G.107 in the Alan Turing building, University of Manchester.

**How do I book?**

Book tickets at: http://mcg-dlnet.eventbrite.com/.

**How much is it?**
Members of MCG or DLNet £45.00
Non-members £90.00
Student / unwaged £25.00
Existing corporate members of the MCG can register up to FOUR delegates for free.

For more information please visit http://mcg-dlnet.eventbrite.com/.

**What’s on the programme?**

You can see the full programme on the MCG website
(http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2012/02/24/working-together-to-engage-digital-audiences/)
or the DLNET website
(http://www.digitallearningnetwork.net/news-blog/programme-announced-working-together-to-engage-digital-audiences-in-museum-11-july-2012-university-of-manchester/).

Here’s a quick overview:

·         Keynotes from Nick Winterbotham, Group for Education in Museums (GEM) Chair and Director, Winterbotham Associates at Thinktank and Matthew Cock, Head of Web, The British Museum

·         Mobile learning case studies from Royal Greenwich Museums and Tyne & Wear Museums

·         Evaluation and measuring case studies from the Museum of London and the Wellcome Collection

·         Three parallel workshops: ‘Engaging audiences digitally - on a budget’, 'Mobile Apps: Shiny new distraction or useful learning tool?' and 'How can we re-align museum practices to make more of changing technologies?'

·         An unconference - your chance to start up-to-the-minute conversations about the hottest topics in the digital museum field.
Find out how others are managing the issues that affect you.

If anyone would like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We hope to see you in July!

Rhiannon (on behalf of the DLNET and MCG committees)

Rhiannon LooseleyOnline Learning ManagerMuseum of LondonLondon Wall150 London WallLondon EC2Y 5HNTel: 020 7814 5774Email: [log in to unmask]www.museumoflondon.org.uk

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