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#MCN2017 Program Committee: We Want You!

At your institution… Do you design beautiful digital publications or geek out on microcontrollers and circuits? We want you. Do you get your kicks from collaborating through interpretive media or crunching data to inform your museum’s digital strategy? We want you. Do you work in a department 2 or 200? We want you. The MCN2017…

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MCN 2016 Sessions – Building an Innovative In-House App: Collaboration, Evaluation, Iteration

Building an Innovative In-House App: Collaboration, Evaluation, & Iteration Wednesday, November 2, 2016 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Speaker: Miranda Kerr, Manager of Digital Learning, Shedd Aquarium Designing and building an in-house app involves collaboration across departments, creativity in prototyping, and a commitment to evaluation to ensure the goals of the learning experience are being…

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MCN 2016 Sessions – Building Tools, Building Community: NEH Funding for Digital Projects

Building Tools, Building Community: NEH Funding for Digital Projects Wednesday, November 2, 2016 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Session Leader: Perry Collins, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities Co-Presenter: Phil Sager, Digital Projects Developer, Ohio History Connection Co-Presenter: Elizabeth Venditto, Project Manager, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota Co-Presenter: Jason Wesaw, Tribal…

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MCN 2016 Sessions – Creating Anti-Oppressive Spaces On-line

  Creating Anti-Oppressive Spaces On-line Wednesday, November 2, 2016 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Session Leader: NIkhil Trivedi, Senior Systems Analyst, A museum in Chicago Co-Presenter: Sina Bahram, President, Prime Access Consulting Co-Presenter: Eric Gardner, Digital Publications Developer, Getty Museum Speaker: Trish Oxford, Principal Technologist, Trish Oxford Media Does your sign-up form reinforce binary notions…

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MCN 2016 Sessions – Creating a Culture of Innovation

  Creating a Culture of Innovation Wednesday, November 2, 2016 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Speaker: Jessica Suess, Digital Partnership Manager, Oxford University Museums Museums are facing significant challenges in the current, fast changing environment: digital is revolutionising the way individuals engage with the world, the demographic make-up of society is undergoing a significant shift,…

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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?…

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Pronoun stickers at MCN 2016

Guest post by Nikhil Trivedi At MCN this year we had pronoun stickers (along with lots of other fun stickers!) that attendees could optionally add to their name badges. I’d like to share some background of this sort of thing at conferences, what sort of thinking went around our stickers, and how I had them…

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Call for MCN Program Co-Chair 2017 & 2018

MCN Program Co-Chair 2017 & 2018 Position Title: Program Co-Chair Period: 2 years Start: Mid-December 2016 Commitment: 2-5 hours/week throughout the year, increasing as the conference nears; full time during the conference. Available one weekend in February/March for a site visit to that year’s conference location (paid for by MCN). Compensation: Program Co-Chair is a…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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