#MCN50 Voices: Rachel Allen
Post by Jessica Warchall, a digital communications consultant This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. In this interview, Jessica Warchall profiles Rachel Allen, Deputy Director at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and former…
#MCN50 Voices: Dan Dennehy & Charles Zange
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Charles Zange, Digital Imaging Technician at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Dan Dennehy, Head of Visual Resources at the Minneapolis Institute of…
#MCN50 Voices: Rachel Ropeik & Charlotte Sexton
A spin of the wheel, a roll of the dice, a timely conversation. When you spend time deconstructing your working life and reflecting on those pivotal moments that have pushed you forward (or knocked you back), it doesn’t take long to realize that in the game of career ‘Chutes and Ladders,’…
#MCN50 Voices: Dana Allen-Greil & Arielle Feldman
Dana Allen-Greil and Arielle Feldman were paired up for the #MCN50 Voices project, which invites members of the MCN community to interview each other about their careers and the field of museum technology as a whole. Being #musesocial gals, Dana and Arielle decided to conduct their interview live on Twitter–emojis, gifs, and all. Here is…
#MCN50 Voices: 10 Words and 2 Challenges from Holly Witchey & Angela Spinazzè
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. In this video conversation, experienced professionals Angela Spinazzè, Principal at ATSPIN Consulting & Holly Witchey, Principal at Relevant Museums Consulting, take us back to revisit their first projects of…
Looking to the past, seeing the future: MCN 1968
This #MCN50 post brought to you by Charles Zange A year after its founding, MCN hosted its first major conference: “A Conference on Computers and their Potential Applications in Museums.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted the event, which was supported by a grant from IBM. Over three days in April, participants came together to…
#MCN50 Voices: Andrea Ledesma & Diana Folsom
Post by Andrea Ledesma This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. From birthday parties to archive dives, and of course to the annual conference, there’s no shortage of opportunities to honor this landmark year. Today, we’re kicking off #MCN50 Voices. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices…
#MCN50 – The MCN Archives
In fifty years, MCN has collected a lot of history. The principle repository for MCN’s records is the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) in downtown Washington DC. MCN records totaling nearly fifty boxes are spread across six record groups at SIA. These collections include everything from news articles and financial records to board minutes and conference…
My first MCN event, not my last!
Guest post by MCN 2016 Scholar, Andrea Ledesma I’d have been crazy to turn down a week in New Orleans. And, when that week promises days filled with talks of museums, tech, and a little karaoke…well, I packed my bags as early as June. This November, I attended MCN 2016 as an MCN Scholar. I…
Tactical MCN
Guest post by MCN 2016 Scholar Emily Kotecki, Distance Learning Educator, North Carolina Museum of Art As a first timer to MCN, I wasn’t sure how similar or different it would be to Museums and the Web. Similar crowd, similar topic. However, in talking to another conference goer, she explained it best: MCN is tactical,…
Experiencing the MCN Experience
By MCN 2016 Scholar, Luc Desmarais (@MuseoLuc), Exhibits & Design Manager, Beaty Biodiversity Museum (beatymuseum.ubc.ca) What a week! This was my first time at the MCN conference, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the generous opportunity provided by the MCN Scholarship program. It was an honour to receive the scholarship, and very humbling to…
Lights, Lights, Overstimulation
Guest post by MCN 2016 Scholar, Emily Haight – Digital Editorial Assistant at the National Museum of Women in the Arts As a scholarship recipient, presenter, and first-timer to MCN I didn’t know what to expect. What I experienced was four days of non-stop information overload. (It’s a good thing.) Here are a few of…