I've been looking for an opportunity to post about this conference but in light of 'gestures to everything' haven't really found the time or headspace to do so. Now I'm at the start of an extremely busy but productive and (hopefully) fun week. I feel inspired to take a moment and reflect on this conference … Continue reading MuseumNext Digital Learning Summit
My final MuseumNext blog post will focus on the theme of challenges. Whether that be challenges museums need to face, or staff overcoming challenging scenarios in order to produce content. One particular presentation stood out to me so I'm going to start there and discuss a couple of others later on. But first, I want … Continue reading MuseumNext Digital Summit: Day Five
I have just finished listening to the final presentation of day four that covered how to take cemetery tours online - more about that later. Firstly, the theme of today was programs with impact. I really want to stress that this isn't just a theme isolated to the presentations today, but one that both stood … Continue reading MuseumNext Digital Summit: Day Four
For each day of the Digital Summit I'm trying to find an overarching theme that helps me to organise the content I'm watching. For day three, the theme is audience. How can museums ensure that the content they are delivering during the pandemic not only engages but supports their audience? How do we know if … Continue reading MuseumNext Digital Summit: Day Three
If I was asked to summarise day two of the MuseumNext conference in one sentence it would be the following: COVID-19 has accelerated the need for museums to re-consider traditional ways of collecting and venture into the realm of collecting digital content from a diverse audience. I really enjoyed listening to how museums are adapting … Continue reading MuseumNext Digital Summit: Day Two
Welcome to my first blog post of 2021! A huge thank you to all my readers and subscribers for continuing to follow and for making 2020 the best year yet for new audiences and blog post visitation. This will be the first post in a series reflecting on the MuseumNext Digital Summit. For those of … Continue reading MuseumNext Digital Summit: Day One
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