Power to the People! Book now for UK Museums on the Web 2013 (UKMW13)
this November at http://ukmw13.eventbrite.co.uk/
Join Museums Computer Group at Tate Modern on 15 November 2013 for our
annual conference to share the latest insights on public
participation, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, citizen history and
user-generated content.
Hear case studies on empowering museum staff to learn and play with
digital technologies and see examples of public-facing projects which
have changed their organisations.
Confirmed speakers include:
Jesse Alter and Simon Delafond, Imperial War Museums (IWM)
First Rule: Talking about Computer Club
Sandra Brauer, English Heritage
IT buddies, virtual volunteers and super-users: Building an online
community for Britain from Above
Nicole Cama, Australian National Maritime Museum
The power of Flickr Commons
Jez Collins, Birmingham Music Archive / Birmingham City University
‘A great place: a lawless hole with rancid drinks and reckless
drunks…’ Multiple voices, multiple memories: Public history-making and
activist archivism in online popular music archives
Tristan Ferne, BBC Research & Development
Using algorithms and people to put a large radio archive on the web
Marcus Winter, University of Brighton, Susan Lambert, Arts University
Bournemouth, Phil Blume, Adaptive Technologies
Ten Most Wanted: Hunting down missing information about cultural artefacts
Please note that our last few conferences sold out well ahead of the
event and there are only 150 spaces at this year's conference so do
book in advance! Registration will close at the end of the day on 14
November. Please ensure that you bring your Eventbrite confirmation
email with you (on a mobile device is fine) to guarantee entry to the
conference.
Follow all the latest updates about the event on Twitter by following
us @ukmgc and the conference hashtag #UKMW13.
More speakers to come! The full programme will be at
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2013/08/15/uk-museums-on-the-web-2013-power-to-the-people/.
Cheers, Mia
(for the MCG Committee and UKMW13 Programme Committee)
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