Museums and the Web 2008 Conference

d me to join the programme committee for the Museums and the Web 2007 Conference. As myself and colleagues at UKOLN were looking to engage more with the museums sector, I welcomed this opportunity.

And as I like to engage fully with such activities, I found myself at last year’s conference presenting one paper (on Addressing The Limitations Of Open Standards) , running a professional forum with Professor Stephen Brown on Accessibility 2.0: A holistic and user-centred approach to Web accessibility ) and contributing to a paper by Mike Ellis on Web 2.0: How to stop thinking and start doing: Addressing organisational barriers . In addition I chaired a session at the conference. And while I was at the event I blogged about the conference .

Jennifer, together with David Bearman, have succeeded in getting their money’s worth out of me again this year 🙂 I’m in Montreal this week for the this year’s Museums and the Web 2008 Conference . And this year I’ll be running a half-day Blogging workshop , with Mike Ellis (the workshop, I’ve just noticed, is fully subscribed), running a professional forum, again with Mike Ellis, on What Does Openness Mean To The Museum Community? and again chairing a session, this year on Search – which is being held on Saturday morning!

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It’s going to be a busy week, I can tell. And as I seem to have left the snow behind in England, and am enjoying the sunshine here in Montreal 🙂

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