Building the Social Web for Museums, Galleries and Education

a.k.a Drupal for Social Media

This is a free event:
Date: Tuesday 8th February 2011
Time: 6:00 to 9:30pm
Location: Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, City of London, EC1Y 8TZ

As a part of the Social Media Week, BrightLemon are bringing together some leading lights of the museum, gallery and education sector to share best practices, advice and case studies that explore the power of online communities and Drupal.

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What’s the event about?

Besides being a get together to talk about the Social Web (and Drupal), we are currently organising presentations from some leading museums, galleries and charities - topics to be covered include:

• How leading lights of the Museum, Gallery and Education sectors create online communities that promote learning and engage audiences using Drupal.
• How online communities to help institutions, its collections, exhibitions and programs plus bring in new audiences, both online and to the institution itself.
• Showcase some online success stories from the Museum, Gallery and Educational sectors.
• Discussions around advancements in technology with leading experts of the web industry.

What is ‘Social Media Week?’

Social Media Week (SMW) is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media.

Taking place between the 7th and 11th of February 2011. Joining eight other cities including New York, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Toronto, Sao Paulo, London, Hong Kong and Istanbal, the event will host a week of panel discussions, presentations, meetups, barcamps, and loads more.

Building the Social Web is one of the 60 events happening in London that week.

Who is presenting?

• John Fintan of White Label presenting 'How the semantic web will impact Museums, Galleries & Education'
• Sheila Sang of the Natural History Museum presenting 'Developing audience involvement, engagement and participation'
• Chris Waring of Talis presenting 'The Journey of Linked Data'
• Paul Clifford of Museum of London presenting 'Blended Learning and Social Networks at the Museum of London sounds particularly interesting'
• Leon Tong of BrightLemon presenting 'Aristotle to Facebook, The popularity of Social Networks - explained by over 2000 years of academic thought'
• Kirstie Beaven of the Tate presenting 'Join In - reaching and valuing your audience'
• Gail Durbin of Victoria and Albert Museum presenting 'Creating museum communities'

For more details on the speakers please view here

Who should attend?

• Open to all professionals in the cultural heritage sector with an interest in social media for museums, galleries and education.
• Heads of digital media, website managers and employees involved with outreach activity within the Museum, Gallery and Education sector.
• Researchers and professionals interested in the broad field of the cultural heritage sector.
• Foundations and governments that support and attend Museums, Galleries and Educational organisations every year.
• Technology/Drupal Development

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Organisors and Sponsors

This event is organised by Brightlemon as part of Social Media week organised by Chinwag.

Noodoll makes toys and stationery for creatives and is generously sponsoring the evenings refreshments.

Further sponsorship opportunities for this event are available – please contact Edward on 0207 608 2838 (Edward@brightlemon.com)