[MCN-L] Cloud Exit Strategy / Termination Policies

[Kate Blanch]

Happy new year MCN!
Would anyone have knowledge or samples of a cloud services termination 
agreement, policy or SLA with a provider that includes termination activities?
I'm researching materials that are intended to deal with backup, re-migration, 
data ownership and transfer, etc. on the chance that the cloud based service 
provider goes under, or terminates the service with the customer, or vice versa.
Any ideas around safeguarding or planning for "unclouding" or moving clouds or 
having your cloud move on would be helpful! (I 
think Mick says it best -- https://youtu.be/O3F4GmbHl5g :))
Have a great day. Thanks, Kate

Kate Blanch
Systems Manager, Data & Digital Resources
410.547.9000 x.266 | kbla...@thewalters.org

The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-5185
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[MCN-L] Submissions for the 28th annual MUSE Awards Now Open

[Dacia Massengill]

*The Media & Technology (M) Professional Network of the American Alliance
of Museums (AAM) is proud to announce that submissions for the 28th annual
MUSE Awards are now open! The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2017 by
11:59 p.m. US Eastern Standard Time. Winners will be notified in late March
with the award presentation ceremony taking place on May 7, 2017 at AAM’s
Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in St. Louis, Missouri.The MUSE Awards web site
contains detailed information on award categories, entry policies, fees,
and more:
http://aam-us.org/about-us/grants-awards-and-competitions/muse-awards
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The MUSE Awards submission system has been newly redesigned to allow for
easier completion of applications. The $50.00 USD per application entry fee
remains unchanged.About the MUSE AwardsThe MUSE awards recognize
outstanding achievement in gallery, library, archive, and museum (GLAM)
media and technology programs. These annual awards are presented to
institutions, independent producers, and their partners who use digital
media and a wide variety of technologies to increase audience engagement
and enhance the GLAM user experience. The MUSE awards celebrate innovation,
creativity, programmatic impact, diversity, education, community outreach,
and more. *
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Re: [MCN-L] Shopify on museum websites

[Brendan Ciecko]

Hi Jennifer,

With today's weather, I wish I was outside strolling the deCordova!
Any-who... many years back my previous company (an agency) worked with the
Neue Galerie (and others) to move from UberCart (on Drupal) to Shopify to
power their e-Commerce. Having dealt with UberCart and Shopify, I can
attest that your desire to move to Shopify is a well-supported one!

We handled the project in 2 phases to address initial urgency,
budget/timing, etc.
#1: was to get the new store launched on Shopify, quickly.
#2: focus on responsive / mobile/tablet-friendliness. (at that time,
traffic coming from non-desktop device (smartphone/tablet) was 26.87% and
the store wasn't responsive)
This was back in 2012 / 2013.

Pulled some quick notes from a review and on-going analysis we did to
monitor (and optimize) year after year, and included below.

• We focused on simplifying the user experience, general SEO, and such
resulting in much high conversion rates.
Within the first 90 days:
+80.7% higher online sales compared to the same period of the previous year
/ old store.

• We significantly increased the speed (load-time) by decreasing the "size"
by 83% and other methods.
Why? Drupal / UberCart can get bloated and slow... 40% of people abandon a
website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. And a 1 second delay in
page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions.

Today, you can find general, easy-to-customize, responsive templates,
making the process of setting up the store fairly easy.

I'd point out is the data migration from UberCart to Shopify can be a bit
challenging. I'll look back at my notes to see what we did about that, if
you're interested. Also, one thing that is often missed in the process is
that the URLs for your products and categories are very likely to change
when moving from one system to the next. You'll want to have your developer
work some magic with .htaccess (or NGINX, depending how you're hosted) for
sake of SEO, getting the same URLs live, or redirecting properly so you
don't break any links.

Happy to chat or share more if I can be helpful!


Regards,
Brendan Ciecko
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CEO & Founder | *Cuseum*
cuseum.com

617-356-8200 x700

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[MCN-L] Help us shape MCN's future

[Eric Longo]

Happy birthday MCN!

MCN is turning 50 this year. So we can continue to support you
professionally in the future, MCN is planning to introduce new programs and
membership benefits. In order to help us shape those plans, we're
interested in hearing from all of you, the entire MCN community, whether
you've ever been a member or not. This brief survey should take you
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We appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
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Re: [MCN-L] Shopify on museum websites

[Mike Ellis]

Hi

Bristol Museums in the UK are using it to deliver their POS - they’ve written 
about it here:

http://www.labs.bristolmuseums.org.uk/using-shopify-to-run-an-affordable-museum-shop-till-system-pos/

Zak Mensah at Bristol is the man to ask about this - happy to intro if anyone 
needs it.

We’re increasingly using it with our clients too, and have done a bit of 
wrangling so that it plays nicely with WordPress - simple example here: 
https://handelhendrix.org/shop/ where the user doesn’t need to leave the site 
to purchase, that sort of thing.

cheers

Mike

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On 12 Jan 2017, 00:53 +, Douglas Hegley , wrote:
> Seb Chan and company at ACMI have been very open about their Shopify
> implementation - thanks guys! Start here:
> https://labs.acmi.net.au/how-to-build-a-museum-online-shop-in-four-weeks-e3a4eb491eaf#.kskin68rm
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> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Jennifer Schmitt  wrote:
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> > Hi all -
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> > I'm hoping some of you have experience with Shopify. We are looking to
> > move away from UberCart on our Drupal 6 website and set up Shopify
> > instead. It will need to sell store products, event tickets (not many),
> > memberships, and take donation transactions. Any thoughts, stories,
> > experiences, examples welcome.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jenn Schmitt
> >
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> > Strategy | *deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum* | 51 Sandy Pond Road,
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