Who we are
Rachel
Rachel has been producing content, both online and offline, for museums, cultural organisations and local authorities since 1997. She has held management roles at London’s Science Museum and Natural History Museum, for Bristol City Council’s Cultural Services Department and for Wiltshire County Council. In these roles she focused on communications, public relations, advocacy, audience research and project management.
Her work at Thirty8 Digital often revolves around writing, editing, auditing and creating online content. For some of our clients she manages social media accounts or creates and manages their social media ad campaigns.
She really likes to help clients to think about the purpose of their digital content and their users needs before they think about what their new site might look like or what functionality it might need. She has an uncharacteristically geeky obsession with web stats.
Mike
Mike has been managing and creating digital content and teams for nearly 20 years – beginning his web career in the early days of e-commerce – working for Waterstones Online. He was Head of Web for the National Museum of Science & Industry (Science Museum. National Railway Museum & National Media Museum) for seven years, and worked with government agencies, the higher education sector and museums during a four year stint with not-for-profit IT company Eduserv.
He’s done a lot of work bringing geeks and normal people together: over the past few years he’s founded groups and activities as diverse as BathCamp, Bath Digital Festival, The Big M and Geek Dad Breakfasts, among other things.
In recent years, Mike has been focusing entirely on museums. He authored the widely acclaimed Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence in 2011 and is Associate Tutor on the University of Leicester Digital Heritage MA.
He dabbles with code, too, just to make sure he can still break things. He’s particularly interested in how technology can be made more usable (ultimately, invisible..) to deliver beautiful and compelling content.
Our Associates
Marc Jenkins
- WordPress development specialist
- Exceptional eye for detail
- Deep understanding of UI / UX
Danny Birchall
- Content strategy for heritage organisations
- Editorial commissioning and storytelling
- Digital museum experiences
Luke Burford
- Web / mobile-first design
- Brand / visuals
- WordPress development specialist
Karen Hamer
- Brand development
- Graphic design
Jeremy Ottevanger
- Heritage consultancy
- Collections management expert
- Digital strategy
Stuart Chaffe
- UX
- Front-end designer
- Expert in developing semantic, accessible, fast to load experiences
Partnerships
We work closely with various organisations in order to deliver the most pragmatic, fun and practical digital solutions for our clients.
These include:
The Museum Platform: our sister business – “a beautiful, engaging and integrated way to get your museum and collections online”.
Noise & Grain: a web design studio focused on building fast, beautiful and user-friendly websites for arts organisations
Interested in working with us? Let’s have a chat – feel free to get in touch!
What people say
Ella Roberts, Communications Manager, Britten-Pears Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation
I have worked with Thity8 Digital in the past and it was an easy decision to work with them again on a new project. This time it was to evaluate the Britten-Pears Foundation’s digital offer and work on a two-phased website project....
Project: Britten-Pears Foundation
Linda Spurdle, Digital Manager, Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham Museums Trust
The report that Thirty8 Digital developed is packed full of good information and recommendations and I think it is is going to be extremely useful as we move forwards ...
Holly Bee, Education and Communications Manager, GEM, Group for Education in Museums
Working with Thirty8 took our online presence forward years! They took the pain and anxiety out of redeveloping our website and cut the jargon to make it easy for us to sustain the site ongoing....
Project: GEM website
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