MCNPro – User Journey Mapping
Join us on Friday, September 22 at 12pm EST for session on User Journey Mapping! A user journey map is a visualization of the steps your visitors go through in engaging with the museum during the visit. This user research tool shows what happens at each stage and visualizes the experience highlighting the visitor…
May 22 – Small Museum SIG Twitter Chat
Storify of the Chat is HERE May 22, 8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. EST Tools for Small Museums In partnership with Techsoup, join your Small Museum SIG Co-Chairs in a Twitter chat as we share ideas on tools for Small Museums. Want to hear about what others are doing in terms of solutions…
MCNPro – CollectiveAccess for Museums
Presented by the Small Museum SIG Friday, April 28, 1pm ET CollectiveAccess is a free open-source software for managing and publishing museum and archival collections. Join John Turner, Senior Manager of Museum Technology at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, as he shares his experience installing, customizing, and using CollectiveAccess to manage the Museum’s…
Your 2017 SIG Chairs
Between December 1st – 15th we held the second annual SIG Chair elections. The voter turn out was impressive, which shows that our SIGs are an important part of the MCN community. Strong SIGs foster discussion and collaboration among colleagues and this is at the heart of what MCN does. Not part of a SIG?…
2016 SIG Chair Elections
Hello fellow MCNers, It’s that time of year again. From December 1-15, 2016, we invite you to vote in the second annual election of our Special Interest Group (SIG) Chairs. Please take a moment to review the slate of candidates and vote for the leadership of SIGs you are most interested in. The roles of SIG Chair and SIG Vice Chair are volunteer positions…
MCNPro: Digital Publication and the OSCI Toolkit
Join the MCN Information Technology SIG for our next MCNPro on October 11th at 2pm EST! The Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative has been an on-going program sponsored by the Getty Foundation for a decade. The IMA Lab has been a key partner in that program and as part of that, has designed and developed the…
MCNPro: Brand Masters with Kim Mitchell
Join our MCN Media Production and Branding Special Interest Group (SIG) for a new MCNPro: Brand Masters on September 21st at 2.15pm EST. How do you manage the most valuable museum brand in the world on a daily basis? How this came to be? And what’s next? We’ll ask Kim Mitchell the Chief Communications Officer…
MCN Pro: Photogrammetry in Museums
Join the MCN Digital Imaging special Interest Group (SIG) on August 22nd at 1pm EST for an update on a photogrammetry project presented at MCN 2015. Professors at the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin have developed software tools to enhance workflow efficiency and rendering quality of photogrammetric models created with AgiSoft PhotoScan. Photographers…
MCN Pro: DAMs 101 for Small Museums
Kelly Carpenter, Digital Assets Manager at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, will chat with the MCN Small Museum SIG about her experiences implementing and working with a digital assets management program. She’ll discuss what a DAM system is (and what it isn’t), what you should think about when choosing a DAM system for your organization, and…
Your new MCN Special Interest Group (SIG) Chairs and Vice Chairs
In December we held the very first SIG Chair elections. The voter turn out was impressive, which shows that our SIGs are an important part of the MCN community. Strong SIGs foster discussion and collaboration among colleagues and this is at the heart of what MCN does. Not part of a SIG? Want to be?…
MCN Pro – March 17th – Video Recording Booths
MCN Pro Workshop, “Just Push Record: Video Recording Booths for Visitors” on Tues, March 17, 2015 at 2pm EST (11am PST) Over the past ten years, booths have become popular for encouraging visitors to record their own responses to museum experiences and have taken a variety of forms in museum galleries across the country. This…
FREE MCN Pro Workshop – How to Store Images, Audio, and Video
“The Tangled Web: Organizing and Storing your Files” Tuesday, September 16, 2014 from 2:00-3:00pm ET Have you ever gotten tangled in a web of disorganized video and image files? Curious about the best practices for organizing and storing images, audio, and video? Or how to consider the difference between interpretive content and collections content? Want…