Online, via Zoom

3 x online content sessions of 2hrs

Tuesday 4 October 2022, 14:00 - 16:00

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 14:00 - 16:00

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00 - 16:00

Please note: Only museums in the East Midlands region are eligible to book this course.

For museums to be able to take full advantage of everything digital can offer, they must first understand how and where digital sits within their organisation. The Digital Culture Compass is a powerful tool which can help a museum to evaluate how digital relates to their organisation. This course helps smaller museums understand how to use the toolkit before applying it to their own organisations.

In this three-part workshop, participants will be guided through using parts of the Digital Culture Compass to complete an assessment of some of their museum’s digital activities. They will leave with the confidence, tools and resources needed to complete the full toolkit within their own organisation, involving their staff, volunteers and trustees in the process.

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at people in senior leadership roles, and/or those with digital responsibilities in their museum - this includes chief executives, directors, board members and senior leaders.

Two members from each participating museum should attend to ensure that they are able to enact and embed change more effectively within their organisation. Ideally the second member of staff or volunteer would be involved in delivery of the digital activities of the museum. Attendees will be contacted for details of their second member of staff or volunteer after booking.

Participants must be working or volunteering in a non-NPO, Accredited museum in the region.

Schedule

This online course will encourage active learning and plenty of discussion for a small group of up to 18 delegates from 9 museums. You will attend 3 online workshops each lasting around 2hrs and scheduled across several weeks. There will be some short self-led workshop exercises in between sessions.

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, you will have:

● a full grasp of how to use the Digital Culture Compass

● a fuller understanding and overview of some of your organisation’s digital activities

● plans, guides and resources on using the Digital Culture Compass as a strategic exercise within your own organisation and teams

● practical next steps to implement within your organisation

● an area of focus to begin assessing and improving your digital activities

● signposting to free online resources to support you going forward

Support towards Museum Accreditation

Organisational Health: 2.1 An approved forward or business plan which covers the current and subsequent planning year

Course lead

Alec Ward is the Digital Skills Manager at Culture24. Alec’s career has focused on building capacity and confidence for smaller cultural organisations by providing digital skills and literacy support. He has extensive experience of developing training around practical digital skills development, from video editing to creating 3D digital models, and focuses that training through a wider organisational strategic context.

This course is provided as part of Culture24’s Arts Council England-funded Sector Support programme.

How will this session be delivered and what equipment do I need?

This session will be delivered online using Zoom a cloud based video conferencing service. The service is free to use, all you need is either a laptop, tablet/ iPad or phone. Your device will need to be able to stream video and sound. If you are using a laptop you can simply connect via your web browser. If using a tablet/ iPad or phone you will need to download the app (free to download) to connect to the session. Full instructions on how to join the session will be issued direct to the email address provided at the point of booking before the session takes place.

How do we use the data you supply us?

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Museum Development East Midlands: Assessing your museum's digital capacity