See the full list of winners and explore their fabulous projects:

http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/best-of-the-web-winners

There is little doubt we all won with such inspiring and engaging projects out there; the bar is set high for MW2014 and we know you will raise it again next year!

The Professional Forum: Avoiding Icebergs Whilst Steering the Titanic session from 2:30pm – 3:30pm is moving to the Oregon Ballroom.

As I began processing the results of the Best of the Web People’s Choice voting I have uncovered an anomaly that means I do not trust the results. I have refactored the voting process and would ask you to place your vote again at: http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/best-of-the-web-nominees – voting will now remain open until Friday at 3:00pm.

With MW2013 now officially open please refer to the Live Program – keep the page open and refreshed on your mobile device to see what is happening now and upcoming throughout the event.

If you want to bring a friend to any of the evening events of complement a day registration you can now order event tickets on the Attendee Registration Page.

You can also add a Workshop, morning, afternoon or one of each to your existing registration by creating a new order on the Attendee Registration Page.

In order to give more time for productive conversation we are soliciting Salon topics online. The Salon is an evolution of the Unconference format and we encourage you to review the topics submitted already at http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/salons and add your own.

Login or create an account, review the Best of the Web nominees at http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/best-of-the-web-nominees and cast your vote by April 17th. You get one vote and your vote is final.

Join us on Friday April 19 at 5:00pm for the Award Presentations or follow Twitter for live tweeting of the results, which will be published in full on the MW2013 website.

It has taken us a little longer tha usual to put together tours for this year’s conference but they are well worth the wait. The tours run on Tuesday, April 16 2013: to join a tour please register at http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/registration

Tour 1: CMS, Object Stories, Mobile and Touch
First we go to Portland Art Museum for a Tour of the collections management photo studio and flex space, followed by a discussion of the online collections database with Maggie Hanson, Collections Information Manager. Then a Tour of the Object Stories booth and Carrie May Weems special exhibition and Object Stories Listening Station with Mike Murawski, Director of Education and Public Programs.

Enjoy a catered lunch at Grand Central Bakery Café a fresh, locally grown company dedicated to the craft of artisan baking and scratch cooking.

Then a Meridian mobile tour of the world famous Lan Su Chinese Garden, one of Portland’s greatest treasures. The Lan Su Chinese Garden app, designed for both iOS and Android based phones, is part personal tour guide, part plant guide –What’s Blooming in Lan Su, turn-by-turn directions and a comprehensive list of all of the events all run from a web CMS.

Finish the day with a tour through Second Story where they are pioneering new interactive experiences for museums and pushing the boundaries of storytelling for brands and institutions across web, mobile, and installations and empowering audiences to connect and share.

Tour 2: Museum Interactive, Digital Art Archives and Digital Fabric Archives
Start the day bright and early with a tour through Second Story where they are pioneering new interactive experiences for museums and pushing the boundaries of storytelling for brands and institutions across web, mobile, and installations and empowering audiences to connect and share.

Enjoy a catered lunch at Grand Central Bakery Café a fresh, locally grown company dedicated to the craft of artisan baking and scratch cooking.

Then off to the Museum of Contemporary Craft & Pacific Northwest College of Art for a presentation and demonstration of a hand-built, digital archive that offers both public and internal points of access for the Museum of Contemporary Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Finish up with a tour of an ambitious project to digitize and archive 40,000 objects from the Andrea Aranow Textile Collection and make them available via the web.

We have added a new workshop to the program for all you big data fans: Big Data/Small Data: GLAM Collections in the 21st Century

If you want to attend, grab a slot at: http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/registration