In reply to Interloper Report:
I've been thinking about Nancy's invitation to suggest concrete steps toward involving other museum practitioners in MW. I know others are thinking about this as well (it's so great to see how much interest the idea has generated - I can see that the MW community is truly "open source"!). Anyway, here is one thought...
I came to MW2012 on my own initiative and out of my own interest (as did my colleague, Getty curator Peter Bjorn Kerber, and I'm sure others). Maybe a place to start is for MW regulars to seek out such "digital allies" in curatorial, education, design, etc. departments and invite them to attend MW2013 as their partner. Kind of a Sadie Hawkins approach. There could be a forum at the conference for partners to meet and share what they are learning/discovering and how it might or might not translate back at their home institutions. This could generate networks of digital allies in various museum roles who could continue the conversation post-conference, and support each other in advancing digital media work in their particular outposts. If your partner can't make it to the conference because of money/schedule/theirowndepartment'swarpedpriorities, they could follow from afar via twitter (#digitalally), live stream, or...? (Actually this would probably be the majority given how tight budgets are these days...so maybe this part of the idea needs bolstering.)
This approach focuses mostly on building relationships, extending networks, and bridging (intertwining) different disciplinary conversations.
Rainer