Dear Colleagues,
MLA London’s training programme contains a number of ICT
related courses that are relevant to people working in the cultural heritage sector.
Our training is open to all staff and volunteers.
More details of each course are below this list, please
scroll down or click on the course title.
Tuesday 6th January 2009 -
An introduction to managing digital projects
Thursday 8th January 2009 - An
introduction to e-commerce for museums, libraries, and archives
Thursday 19th March 2009 - Understanding
online audiences for cultural heritage organisations
Course prices range from £80 to £110 for the full day course
and include course papers/booklets, lunch, and refreshments. Renaissance
London has agreed to fund a limited number of places on each course so London
museums can attend free (priority will be given to non Hub and non National
London based museums). To inquire into availability, or request a booking form
please call 020 7549 1712, or email [log in to unmask].
You may download a booking form by clicking here,
or by copying the following into your web browser: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/MLAL_BOOKING_FORM_0809.doc
You can download a full copy of our training programme by
clicking here,
or copying the following into your web browser: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/MLAEVENTS0809.pdf
Kind Regards
Paddy McNulty
Workforce Development Co-ordinator
MLA London
An
introduction to Managing Digital Projects
Tuesday 6th January 2008
Council Room, Kings College London, Strand Campus, Strand,
London
This course is for staff and volunteers who are considering
starting a digital project.
Focusing upon delivering digital resources and digitisation
(the conversion to digital formats) this one day course will introduce to the
skills needed to when commissioning or carrying out digital projects. Starting
with effective project management through fundraising and budgeting/costing
issues the course will offer real life examples and tools to enable effective
management including tendering and selecting service providers. The course will
encourage discussion, questions and debate plus provide a structured
environment to learn about the management tools of the digital project trade.
The day will be led by Simon Tanner (King’s Digital Consultancy Services), a
leading thinker and consultant in how the digital domain relates to library,
museum and archiving digital strategies.
The day will include sessions on:
·
Planning and project management - Introducing
the fundamentals of project management to enable effective planning and risk
management
·
Fundraising and budgeting - Transforming plans
into costed proposals for raising funds. How to work with funding bodies to get
what you both want
·
Tendering and selecting services - How to tender
for and select services. Whether to work in-house or outsource and how to use a
decision matrix, how to decide if e-commerce will work for your organisation
Delegates will leave the day with:
·
Knowledge of how to plan, budget and manage a
digital project
·
Confidence to know the tools and means to
effectively manage digital projects
·
Awareness of the way other museums, libraries,
and archives manage digital projects
Cost: £105 for organisations within London; £110 for
organisations outside of London. All course papers are included in the price.
Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided. To inquire into the
availability of Renaissance London funded places please call 020 7549 1712.
An
introduction to e-commerce for museums, libraries, and archives
Thursday 8th January 2008
Council Room, Kings College London, Strand Campus, Strand,
London
This course is for staff and volunteers from organisation in
the museums, libraries, and archives sector who are considering e-commerce.
The day is an introduction to e-commerce and how museums,
libraries, and archives may be able to apply this technology to improve their
revenue stream. It will help organisation evaluate whether e-commerce is
suitable for their organisation, how e-commerce works in the sector, and what
are the best ways to plan for implementation of e-commerce across an
organisation. The day will encourage discussion, questions and debate plus
provide a structured environment to learn about e-commerce.
The day will be led by Simon Tanner (King’s Digital Consultancy Services), a
leading thinker and consultant in how the digital domain relates to library,
museum and archiving digital strategies.
The day will include sessions on:
·
An introduction to e-commerce and how it is used
in museums, libraries, and archives
·
How to decide if e-commerce will work for your
organisation
·
Defining the costs and benefits for implementing
e-commerce
·
Planning for e-commerce implementation
·
Illustrative case studies
Delegates will leave the day:
·
Knowledge of what e-commerce is and how to begin
to plan and implement e-commerce
·
Confidence to know the likely costs and benefits
of e-commerce
·
Awareness of the way other museums, libraries,
and archives use e-commerce
Cost: £105 for organisations within London; £110 for
organisations outside of London. All course papers are included in the price.
Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided. To inquire into the
availability of Renaissance London funded places please call 020 7549 1712.
Understanding
online audiences for cultural heritage organisations
Date/Time: Thursday 19th March 2009 1000 -
1630
Venue: South Camden City Learning Centre, Charrington
Street, London NW1 1RG
Increasing audiences are using the internet to help them
choose what to see and where to go. In response to this museums are
increasing their online presence and seeking to capture these
audiences at their websites, either to engage them online, or to persuade them
to visit the museum physically. But how can we understand our online
audiences, and make sure that we are delivering what the potential audience
wants?
This one day course will look at the some of the issues
around online audiences and help museums understand how to understand them and
the data they provide. The day will cover:
·
Setting the Scene - What are the benefits of
gathering and analysing data on our online audiences?
·
Web statistics – What can we measure? And
what is useful to analysis
·
What tools organisations can use to collect web
statistics (practical)
·
Online questionnaires – what tools are
available? What can we get from them? How to analysis them
·
Combining data channels and developing strategy
The day has been designed to provide delegates with
theoretical and practical knowledge and as such will be held at a computer lab
in South Camden City Learning College.
Cost: £80 for organisations within London; £85 for
organisations outside of London. All course papers are included in the
price. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided. To inquire into
the availability of Renaissance London funded places please call 020 7549 1712.