Policy Paper - Using technology to drive audience engagement, boosting the digital capability of cultural organisations and unleashing the creative potential of technology. Developed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, United Kingdom.

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A showcase of digital strategy documents and related resources from leading museums and cultural organisations.

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Put your organisation information on Google Search and Maps, so that customers can find you, no matter what device they're using.

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Creating a Facebook page for your organisation.

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The importance of measuring
 the success of your Facebook page.

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Photographing prints and paintings for documentation or reproduction.

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Review those who follow you, identify the influencers and assist with developing your Twitter strategy.

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A quick how to guide to Twitter.

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What exactly is a digital asset? Confused by technology and wanting to sort your modems from your routers and find out what a tablet is? Then let’s start at the very beginning.

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This discussion paper by the Australian Law Reform Commission is about copyright and the digital economy.

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This 'thinking about' resource takes you through the first step of digitising your collection - planning your project.

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This 'thinking about' resource takes you through the golden rule of digitisation, 'capture once, use many times'.

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This 'thinking about' resource takes you through the technical specifications of a digitisation project.

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This 'thinking about' resource takes you through some scanning and handling tips.

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This 'thinking about' resource discusses metadata and how to provide access to your digitised collection.

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Produced in conjunction with Museums & The Web, this 15 page report draws on the views of more than 70 professionals working in museums across the world to explore the digital strategies of today’s museums and how they link to visitor engagement plans and focus areas for investment.

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This is a pre-recorded interview from M&G's Online + Onsite event, between Peter Gorgels from the Rijksmuseum and Susan Cairns.

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This is Suse Cairns' presentation from M&G's Online + Onsite event, about museums, technology and the longer now.

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This is Tristan Deratz's presentation from M&G's Online + Onsite event, the MCA Anish Kapoor ePublication.

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This is Megan Perry and Louise Prichard's presentation about the State Library of NSW's Curio Project from M&G's Online + Onsite event.

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This is an M&G guide on how-to do oral history, including why and how.

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This guide provides practical information for museums on creating good images of their collections using a scanner or a digital camera.

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Museum Hack look at four Instagram accounts from museums around the world who are doing it right when it comes to engaging audiences.

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Practical tools for volunteers and staff in small to medium museums, galleries, libraries and archives in Australia that are collecting digital items, undertaking digitisation, and providing online access to their collections.

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This manual explores how organisations can expand their online brand so as to push both the reach and significance of their current social media efforts using a range of tools.

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