Dear MCGers,
our sold out *UKMW14 ‘Museums beyond the web*‘
<http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2014/08/12/ukmw14-programme/> was held
at the Natural History Museum in London on Friday 7 November 2014.
UKMW14 event reports
- Jessica Suess’ Museums Beyond the Web, November 2014
<http://fortunacuriosa.com/2014/11/10/museums-beyond-the-web-november-2014/>
- Guest blogger Holly Parsons
<http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/holly-parsons/6b/765/951> wrote UKMW14 Guest
Post: From Mercury to Mars
<http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2014/11/14/ukmw14-guest-post-mercury-mars/>
- Guest blogger Kasia Kwiatkowska <http://www.kasiaonline.com/> wrote UKMW14
Guest Post: The New Post-Digital Era
<http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2014/11/14/ukmw14-guest-post-new-post-digital-era/>
- University of Cambridge Museums’ Museums Computer Group Conference –
Museums beyond the Web
<https://camunivmuseums.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/museums-computer-group-conference-museums-beyond-the-web/>
Congratulations to Holly Parsons
<http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/holly-parsons/6b/765/951> and Kasia Kwiatkowska
<http://www.kasiaonline.com/> for their winning applications to be our
official event bloggers.
UKMW14 photos and tweets
- Some photos from the day are in our Museums Computer Group Flickr pool
<http://www.flickr.com/groups/museumscomputergroup/> – feel free to add
yours!
- #UKMW14 tweets have been archived
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_NuW4vgT8wl7w-uQx8Y2YC6queMEYfb8YRlCXPqI_iw/edit?pli=1#gid=8743918>
in a Google doc.
UKMW14 presentation notes and slides
- Opening keynote speaker George Oates has posted her UK Museums and The
Web Keynote slides
<http://goodformandspectacle.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/uk-museums-and-the-web-keynote/>
- MCG Chair Mia Ridge’s ‘All the things I didn’t say in my welcome to
UKMW14 ‘Museums beyond the web’…
<http://openobjects.blogspot.com/2014/11/all-things-i-didnt-say-in-my-welcome-to.html>
‘
- Slides for Immersive and Pervasive: Museums in Virtual Reality by Tara
Copplestone
<http://www.slideshare.net/museumscomputergroup/immersive-and-pervasive-museums-in-virtual-reality-tara-copplestone>
- Slides for Box of Delights by Alex Butterworth
<http://www.slideshare.net/museumscomputergroup/box-of-delights-alex-butterworth>
- Slides for Piloting a mobile collection in the landscape by Anna
Rhodes and Ben Bedwell
<http://www.slideshare.net/museumscomputergroup/piloting-a-mobile-collection-in-the-landscape-anna-rhodes-and-ben-bedwell>
- Slides for On Dartmoor nobody can hear you Google by Rick Lawrence
<http://www.slideshare.net/museumscomputergroup/on-dartmoor-nobody-can-hear-you-google-rick-lawrence>
- Slides for Centenary Connections: connecting stories of the First
World War, Rebecca Bartlett
<http://www.slideshare.net/museumscomputergroup/centenary-connections-connecting-stories-of-the-first-world-war-rebecca-bartlett>
- Slides for Let them speak by Oluwatoyin Sogbesan
<http://www.slideshare.net/museumscomputergroup/let-them-speak-oluwatoyin-sogbesan>
- Slides for Google Glass at the MIT Museum: a Visitor Experience Study
by Marco Mason
<http://marcomason.mit.edu/speaking/ukmw14-museums-beyond-the-web>
Get in touch if you've got event notes, images or anything else you'd like
to share on our round-up post
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2014/11/10/ukmw14-round-posts-tweets-slides-images/.
And don’t miss out on future events – sign up for our low-traffic events
information list <http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings/>.
In AGM news, the proposed constitutional change from 'auditor' to
'Independent Reviewer(s)' was approved. The proposal to become an
Association CIO was also approved at the AGM.
Many thanks to outgoing committee members Rhiannon Looseley, Irida Ntalla,
Oonagh Murphy, Alison Bean (Treasurer) and Julie Reynolds (Secretary) for
their contributions over the years. We welcome our new committee members
Ivan Teage (Treasurer), Katherine Biggs (Secretary), Jessica Seuss, Rebecca
Atkinson, Rosie Clarke, Martin Bazley, Jennifer Ross and Ina Pruegel.
Cheers, Mia
(as Chair, Museums Computer Group)
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