BBC Things To Do goes live!
As you may know, Culture24 is now the official cultural data provider to the BBC. This exciting three-year datasharing partnership gives museums, libraries, heritage sites and other cultural organisations the opportunity to feature activities on a new BBC website called Things To Do.
The good news is that the site is now live, and you can visit it at www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo (sample page above) and with half term and summer holidays fast approaching, now is the perfect time to join the partnership and bring your activities to a wider audience via a range of projects and promotions across BBC One, Two and Four.
Also, Ruth and Conrad will be at the Museums and Heritage show later this week (details below) - so if you'd like to find out more about the BBC partnership, drop by and say hello!
Sample image of www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo courtesy of BBC
Book now for OpenCulture 2011
OpenCulture 2011 is the two-day Collections Management conference from the Collections Trust. Featuring speakers from the BBC, Google and a range of other national and international organisations, the programme includes a Funders Panel, a session on Hack Culture and a social-media flashconference curated by Dr Ross Parry of the University of Leicester.
Day one features a Great Collections Management Exhibition & Trade Fair, alongside a seminar programme which includes sessions on the Museums Association's funding programme and the updated Museums Accreditation Scheme. Full information and booking details can be found at http://www.openculture2011.org.uk
Museums and Heritage Show 2011
We'll be at the Museums and Heritage Show at Earls Court on May 11-12, curating the "learning" strand of their excellent free seminar programme. Anra Kennedy will also be presenting on Wednesday at 10.40am on "GLAM Learning: Digital Opportunities and Partnerships".
Ruth and Conrad will be on the Culture24 stand (T5) talking about the BBC project, again, feel free to stop by and say hi!
"How to evaluate online success"
MW2011 and our first ever conference
A paper on our Action Research Project on 'How to evaluate online success' has been published to coincide with the workshop at this years Museums & the Web conference in Philadelphia.
The final report will be shared at our conference, "Let's Get Real", at Watershed, Bristol 20-21st September. More details soon...
Conversations
Waterloo200 Committee, Kids in Museums, Collections Trust, Europeana, NCT, Information Standards Board for Digital Content, Clore Leadership Foundation, Council of Content Providers & Aggregators, Plurio.net, Swedish National Heritage Board, Institute for International Relations (IMO, Croatia), BBC, Cabe, Own Art, Google, Experian, ABC, Ideas Generation, English Heritage, Nesta, AXIS Arts, ArtFinder, Brooklyn Museum, Europeana, Arts Council, Trip Advisor, Project Audience
Conferences
Marketing Innovation Expo, , Musuems & the Web 2011 conference, Philidelphia Arts Council & BBC Academy event 'Building digital capacity in the arts', Arts Council 'A Night Less Ordinary' evaluation group, Mobile and the cultural sector conference, London
Culture
Charleston Farmhouse, National Library of the Netherlands, National Army Museum, Guardian Family Friendly Museum Awards, Sheffield Park, Wakehurst Place, Grant Museum of Zoology, Wellcome Collection, Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, P3, Fashion Museum, Bath, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Tower of London, Fusilier Museum, Pallant House, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Pevensey Castle, Chesterfield Museum, Imperial War Museum, Kensington Palace, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Ikon, Milton Keynes Gallery
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May 13-15 2011
2011 is the biggest year yet for Museums at Night with more than 300 venues staging 400 events!
If you're taking part but haven't registered your event in the database yet, please do so now ( here's how)! We're also asking every participating venue to count the number of visitors who attend their events - we may see more than 100,000 visitors this year!
Read what the team are up to on our behind-the-scenes campaign blog.
Whether or not you're running an event, we hope you enjoy the weekend - find an event to go to here.
Finally, the behind-the-scenes documentary will be screened on Sky Arts on Friday June 3 at 6.30pm (you can watch the trailer here).
New DDE system goes live
A little while back, we launched our brand new Direct Data Entry system to everyone. We're pleased to say that it's running really well and the feedback from you has been overwhelmingly positive.
If you haven't been moved over to the new system yet, just head here to get your new username and password set up.
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4,660 venues
10,805 articles
2,436 resources
1,529 events
525 websites
... in our database
Our website has 110 sections to browse, from the broad and general - such as Art - to the specific - such as Archive Film.
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