** UK Museums on the Web 2013
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** Power to the People
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** Just 3 weeks to go until the UKMW13 conference!
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** Book your tickets and travel now!
There's still time to get cheap train tickets.
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Opening Keynote
The Museums Computer Group is delighted to announce our opening keynote
speaker for our Museums on the Web 2013 conference: Guardian Community
Manager Laura Oliver

Laura is community manager at the Guardian. She oversees a team that is
dedicated to finding new ways to bring the readers of Guardian.co.uk (
http://guardian.co.uk) into its journalism, experimenting with opening up
the reporting, writing and publishing processes.

About the conference
The MCG’s #UKMW13 will be held at Tate Modern on Friday, 15 November 2013.
Book now at ukmw13.eventbrite.co.uk (http://ukmw13.eventbrite.co.uk/)

This year’s theme is ‘Power to the People’, and we’ve created plenty of
opportunities to connect with your peers. Join other museum practitioners,
academics and technologists to be inspired by the latest insights on
citizen history, grassroots digital projects and crowdsourcing. Learn tips
you can apply to your own work from honest case studies of projects that
engaged audiences in participatory projects and empowered museum staff to
use digital tools.

UKMW13 also brings together speakers from a number of leading organisations
including Adaptive Technologies, Arts University Bournemouth, Australian
National Maritime Museum, BBC Research & Development, Birmingham Music
Archive, English Heritage, Imperial War Museum, University of Brighton and
University of Oxford.

Don’t miss out - tickets are selling fast!
Book for #UKMW13 now (
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2013/08/15/uk-museums-on-the-web-2013-power-to-the-people/
)

Pre-conference meetup

Join us for our informal pre-conference meet up at the Tattershall Castle (
http://www.thetattershallcastle.co.uk/)  - the fantastic paddle steamer bar
moored just off Embankment Bridge. This is a great opportunity to network
with collegaues and to be inspired and entertained with some lightning
talks on the subject of the conference.
This event is open to everyone, whether you're attending the conference or
not. We hope to see you there!

Times: 6-11pm
Location: Victoria Embankment, Whitehall, SW1A 2HR

Please note, space for the talks is limited, so do come early.
We are grateful to our conference sponsors for their generous support:
@adlibis (https://twitter.com/adlibis)  @squizuk (
https://twitter.com/squizuk)  and @StickyWorld (
https://twitter.com/stickyworld)

UKMW13 is sponsored by Axiell Adlib & CALM. Adlib and CALM are brands of
the Axiell Group, the leading supplier of IT systems and services to
archives, libraries and museums. Find out more at adlibsoft.com (
http://www.adlibsoft.com/)

Tea and coffee breaks are sponsored by Squiz - seamless, intelligent and
engaging online experiences, find out more about their world-class CMS
software and digital services at squiz.net (http://www.squiz.net/)

Lunch is sponsored by Stickyworld. Stickyworld makes it easy for museums to
publish and embed 360 virtual tours on their website, inviting discussion
and feedback on collections, galleries or future development projects. Find
out more at stickyworld.com (http://www.stickyworld.com/)

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
Paul Long, Birmingham School of Media / 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

How to book:

Visit our Eventbrite page here (http://ukmw13-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/) .

Prices:
MCG members: £67.50
Non-members: £135.00
Student/unwaged: £33.75
Corporate Membership*: £210.00

*If your organisation is a corporate member of MCG use this option to
register up to four delegates.

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Please note that our 2012 conference sold out ahead of the event. 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.

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Follow all the latest updates about the event on Twitter by following us
@ukmgc (https://twitter.com/ukmcg) and the conference hashtag #UKMW13 (
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23UKMW13&src=typd)

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