Guest Blog by Charlotte Dixon:

I was invited by Tate Kids to Damien Hirst Plate Spinning event to live tweet. That is when you tweet what you see as it’s happening.  Kids Co is a great charity for kids in London who teamed up with Damien Hirst and Tate for this activity.  Damien is a supporter of the charity.

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Just back from an amazing week in Barcelona where not only did I get to do a bunch of museum visits and culture things, I managed to attend the 2-day MuseumNext conference.

MuseumNext was held at CCCB and MACBA and had 2-3 session going at any given time.  The advantage was you could tailor your conference to suit your needs.  The disadvantage was you knew you were missing some pretty brilliant talks.

However, luckily, most attendees tweeted (this *is* a digital conference after all!).  With help from Gary Green and Jonathan Tyzack below is an archive of the tweets.

*Please note: These are really raw and not formatted as I wanted to get them up ASAP.  I will work on them again tonight.

Huge huge thanks to Jim and Claire Richardson, the whole Sumo Team, and all the kind sponsors*  for again putting on a fantastic conference.  Once again, I walked away with valuable knowledge and great friends.

• MuseumNext May 24
• MuseumNext  May 25
• MuseumNext 2012 xls
• MuseumNext text
• MuseumNext Text II

Bring on MuseumNext 2013 – Amsterdam!

*Thanks to sponsor MailChimp for the free drinks! 🙂 Check them out!

Updated:

Blogs:

• MuseumLines blog
• Thought Den Blog
• If looks could kill – Can digital images be less immortal?
• A Mobile Thing at #MuseumNext 2012

My photos (on Facebook)

• Barcelona Pre-Conference
• MuseumNext Day One
• MuseumNext Day Two
• Barcelona Museum Day (After Conference) 

I attended the UK Museums Computer Group Conference (twitter #UKMW11) last Friday at the impressive Imperial War Museum. It was my first time attending this annual conference and I wasn’t disappointed.

Newly elected committee member Oonagh Murphy is the official blogger for this event 🙂

Starting the conference was Kenote speaker Mark O’Neill, Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service with a key question:  What’s the difference between Ikea and museums? Before you answer meatballs, Mark used clear examples on how a search engine for a museum’s website on the word Vase will bring up a multitude of links (items in their shops, vases in paintings, vases as an artefact, etc).  Users are then forced to scroll to narrow the result list down.  Whereas with Ikea, they use the Boolean approach – yes they might still have 6 vases named the same with differences being their height and price but you have the option to narrow your search down by color, height, size, price, etc.

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