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The “tech literacy” gap
I’ve been pondering “tech literacy” a lot recently. For one thing, it’s a central part of quite a lot of the conversation that hung off Museum Next this year, what with Koven’s talk about “authentic digital” and various other discussions about digital strategy, whether you need a “head of digital” or the use of the […]
- Posted by Rachel
- July 12, 2014
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Using WordPress to build (MailChimp) newsletters
Prompted by a discussion on the Museums Computer Group list, I thought I’d throw together a quick post to show how we build newsletter-authoring functionality into WordPress, and why. So: the problem as we perceive it is: > MailChimp is much better for sending newsletters, and anyone who tries to convince you to do bulk sending from your WordPress installation is […]
- Posted by Rachel
- June 25, 2014
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Thoughts on Museum Next 2014
So, as previously mentioned, I chaired the excellent Museum Next conference last week. It was a brilliant couple of days – amazing to see lots of people I haven’t seen in a long time and to meet some new ones too. The programme was varied, challenging and full of new ideas and insights: in short I had a […]
- Posted by Rachel
- June 24, 2014
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Museum Next
I’m off to Museum Next shortly, which runs from 18th-20th June in Newcastle. Jim Richardson has asked me to chair, which I’m pretty excited about. Jim has created a blinding conference – there are some amazing speakers coming along and the schedule looks pretty good too, delving into some of the more interesting questions that our sector has to […]
- Posted by Rachel
- June 12, 2014
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New website
So in 2011 we threw together a website in one night – we were about to launch Thirty8 Digital and were busy keeping new clients happy while looking for more work. It was a kind of holding site and we always planned to re-do it in the first few months. Those few months some how have […]
- Posted by Rachel
- June 10, 2014
- 2 responses