#MCN50 Voices: Susan Wamsley & Richard Urban
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, Susan Wamsley and Richard Urban discuss how they got into the field of Digital Asset Management…
What does MCN mean to you?
As we look back on 50 years of MCN—and prepare for the future—it’s the perfect time to reflect on the question, “What does MCN mean to me?” So tell us! Whether you found this community four months, four years, or even four decades ago…what does MCN mean to you? You might have noticed the ongoing…
#MCN50 Voices: Suzanne Quigley & Bill Weinstein
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, Suzanne Quigley and Bill Weinstein discuss fortuitous paths into museum technology work, early collection digitization and that time that everyone shook Bill…
#MCN50 Voices: Eleanor E. Fink & Dara Lohnes-Davies
In this instalment of our MCN50 Voice project, Dara Lohnes-Davies, the University of Wyoming Art Museum, Collections Manager interviews Eleanor E. Fink, past MCN Board Member and collections database pioneer. Eleanor E. Fink has held senior positions at the Smithsonian, J. Paul Getty Trust, and World Bank. She is one of the founding directors of the…
#MCN50 Voices – Brad Dunn & Gavin Mallory
Brad Dunn, Web and Digital Communications Director, Field Museum (@badunn) and Gavin Mallory, Production Director at Cogapp (@Gavin_Mallory ) met for the first time doing this interview. They found common ground on doing meaningful work; where museums should be taking digital; their career paths, beer, and Patrick Stewart. Background and Current Job Brad:…
Meet the 2017 new board members!
Congratulations to our 5 newly appointed board members! This year, 23 members of the community applied to fill five vacant seats on the MCN board. The Nominating Committee reviewed all applications against our current stated needs, as well as the strength and merit of each application, and shortlisted a slate of the five candidates it…
#MCN50 Voices – Blaire Moskowitz & Matt Morgan
Matt Morgan, President, Concrete Computing and Blaire Moskowitz, the Digital Interpretive Specialist at the New York Botanical Garden and a PhD Candidate in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester share their career paths, the ideal skills for success in the field, and the state of the museum technology field. WHAT JOB DID YOU…
#MCN50 Voices: Diane Zorich & Richard Rinehart
Our latest instalment of MCN50 Voices pairs two past MCN presidents, Diane Zorich and Richard Rinehart. They each talk about the role of MCN in their early careers, and discuss the history of museums, current challenges in the field, and imagine what a museum they would design would look like. Diane is Director of the…
#MCN50 Voices: Seema Rao interviews Sam Quigley
D. Samuel Quigley, Director, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and former President of MCN, shares his memories of conferences past and the museum technology today with Seema Rao, Principal, Brilliant Idea Studio. Sam started his career at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and became curator of musical instruments and associate curator of European decorative…
#MCN50 Voices: Trilce Navarette & Bert Degenhart Drenth
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. Trilce Navarette, an Amsterdam-based digital heritage researcher, and Bert Degenhart Drenth, Chief Technical Officer of the Axiell Group, interviewed each other for this post and…
Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
Check out this New York Times’ article published today that talks about how Pittsburgh had become a tech-hub for many tech firms.
#MCN50 Voices: Elissa Frankle & Max Evjen
In this instalment of the MCN50 Voices series, Elissa Frankle and Max Evjen discuss what how they rely on others, work/life balance, being a “cheptic,” and of course, karaoke. Max and Elissa met through the greater Twitter/conference conglomerate that is Museums and the Web and both have jobs that are multifaceted. …