MCN Forum

What is the MCN Forum?

MCN Forum is a Groups.io resource for the museum technology community to share announcements about upcoming events, resources, grant and scholarship opportunities, job openings, RFPs and call for proposals, engage in discussions with peers on current trends and practices, and support each other on a variety of work challenges. Join the MCN Forum to receive daily updates in your inbox and post questions any time. This is a free service brought to you by MCN, consider supporting this work by becoming a member or making a donation today!

How to use the MCN Forum

You can adjust your email settings to individual messages, daily, weekly digests or turn off email entirely, as long as you are subscribed you can visit the forum online to see what folks have been talking about. More about Groups.io settings can be found in the documentation.

Screenshot showing subscription options available on groups.io: Individual Messages, Full Featured Digest, Plain Digest, Daily Summary, Special Notices Only, or No Email.

Groups.io supports hashtags to organize messages; some hashtags you might want to consider using are #jobs #accessibility #RFP #CFP #question #webinar. Please note that your very first message will be placed in moderation to protect the subscriber community.

Need to search the archive? Use this LINK to view messages sent before June 2021 via the old MCN-Listserv.

What happened to MCN-L?

The MCN-L was a classic email listserv discussion forum on Linode that was retired in June of 2021 when we introduced the MCN Forum. It was created for professionals in the cultural sector, and at its peak with 2,500+ subscribers, the MCN-L Listserv has been the most valuable resource for professionals in the musetech community, and now lives on as the MCN Forum. The MCN-L archive will be imported into groups.io and contains years of valuable tech/digital content relevant to professionals in galleries, libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions.