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		<title>UMIS 2011 Conference papers now online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Doherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might remember me blogging about the 2011 UMIS Conference &#8220;University museums: new rules of engagement?&#8221; towards the end of last year. The papers from the conference are now available on the UMIS website, so if you didn&#8217;t get the chance to attend you can still check out what the speakers presented. While you&#8217;re there, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1591&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Celebration of the Bard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Doherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you didn&#8217;t know, 25 January is the birthday of the poet and song writer Robert Burns. Emma and I decided to mark the day by attending the Surgeons&#8217; Hall Museum&#8217;s lunchtime event on &#8220;The Medical Times of Robert Burns&#8221;. Folksinger and storyteller Phyllis Davidson used song, stories and poems to link the medicine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1583&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>February Insights and Ideas Cafe looking at Philanthropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Doherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost time for the first Insights and Ideas Cafe of 2012. This is a joint venture between us at Museums Galleries Scotland and our colleagues at Creative Scotland. It&#8217;s a creative café style meeting place for researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The events take place on the first Thursday of every month, with each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1578&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ALMA-UK Economic Impact Toolkit Workshops</title>
		<link>http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/alma-uk-economic-impact-toolkit-workshops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Doherty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic impact]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Council on Archives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to blog to alert readers to an opportunity coming up in February. We are holding workshops on 22nd and 23rd of February to introduce people to the economic impact toolkit developed for museums and archives by ERS. These are being organised in partnership with the Scottish Council on Archives. Attendees will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Two (as the owl said!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark macleod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you have decided to set-up a Twitter account you have two options. A. to lurk (watch other tweets before embarking) or B. to dive right in. It&#8217;s down to personal preference, in the next few paragraphs I will give a crash course in Twitter basics and leave you to weigh up if you are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1566&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JODI Awards 2011</title>
		<link>http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/jodi-awards-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>loretta Mordi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four winners of the UK JODI Awards 2011 were announced at a ceremony at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea on 1 December. The JODI awards celebrate innovation in the area of accessible digital culture. Museums Galleries Scotland is a partner in the JODI Awards – specifically to enable Scotland’s museums and galleries to participate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1555&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s this Twitter all about?</title>
		<link>http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/whats-this-twitter-all-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark macleod</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/?p=1548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some call it micro blogging, others use it to tell the world what they had for breakfast, Twitter has exploded onto everyone&#8217;s radar since it was first introduced in 2006, the growth has continued to roughly 300million registered users. Essentially it is a text message (140 characters or less) which is broadcast to the world. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1548&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Know Where You’re Going?</title>
		<link>http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/do-you-know-where-youre-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we are off to the ‘I Know Where I’m Going conference on Remote access to World Heritage Sites – from St Kilda to Uluru’.  This conference takes place at the Informatics Forum in Edinburgh from 23-24 November and Museums Galleries Scotland is delighted to be one of nine conference sponsors.  180 participants will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1543&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Insights</title>
		<link>http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/social-media-insights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lucy Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw the second in a series of Insights Café’s take place, the focus of this one was social media. Unsurprisingly it proved to be very popular so Sue and I were delighted to get the chance to attend. There was a diverse range of speakers covering topics ranging from on-line gaming to experimental [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1518&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glasgow Museums Research Conference</title>
		<link>http://mgsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/glasgow-museums-research-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Doherty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I was through at the Burrell Collection for Glasgow Museums’ 4th Annual Research Conference. This is the first time I’d attended this event and was really looking forward to it. There were 15 speakers talking about the various pieces of research they’d undertaken in relation to the Glasgow Museums collections. For me, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mgsblogs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8582753&amp;post=1513&amp;subd=mgsblogs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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