From the adoption of content management systems to the explosion of Web 2.0 features, museum websites have undergone enormous growth and change over the past decade. This session features three speakers who have been working in the museum website space during this critical period of rapid growth and change. Presented at the California Association of Museums Annual Conference in San Jose, CA, March 2010.
Museum Website Best Practices Conference Presentation
1. Museum Website Best Practices for the 21st Century March 4, 2010 California Association of Museums 2010 Conference
2. Dana Mitroff Silvers Head of Online Services San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Jack Ludden Manager of Web Group & New Media Development The J Paul Getty Trust Donovan Rittenbach Web Manager California Academy of Sciences
32. A Content Management System (CMS) is essential to turning everybody in the organization into a potential communicator, and freeing up team resources. It is a “multiplier." Academy stats: 50+ publishers
44. Learning and Growth Perspective How well is the team able to understand and use new technology? How well is new knowledge stored and communicated within the team? How well can knowledge be acquired and utilized within the required time constraints? Keep it all in balance
45. How efficient is the production process? What efficiencies within the production process will be created because of a given project? Internal Perspective Keep it all in balance
46. How efficient is a department’s (or in this case, a specific project’s) budget? How well can you stay within that budget? How do you capitalize on opportunities to reduce expenses as a result of this project? Fiduciary Perspective Keep it all in balance
47. How user-friendly is the end product? Is the product readily available to users? Customer (Audience) Perspective Keep it all in balance
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