[MCN-L] Social media in museums

Hi everyone - I was reading the latest ICOM magazine, in which there is an article titled Reinventing the Museum: A look at opportunities and pitfalls for museums in a fast-changing world, and I found the following quote by Jasper Visser interesting: ?There are examples of institutions that

[MCN-L] Online learning

Hi - I see from the message I copied below that some people shared examples of on-line learning platforms built in Drupal. I don't recall seeing them here, though; would people be willing to share these with the list? I'd be interested in seeing some examples. Thanks, Sheila Sheila Carey

[MCN-L] Metrics

Hi everyone - I came across this report on the 2012 State of Nonprofit Data and thought it might be of interest to those who haven't seen it already. http://www.nten.org/research/2012-state-of-dataI found it via Beth Kanter's post Nonprofits Collect Lots of Data, But Most Don?t Use It

[MCN-L] Metrics Evaluation SIG

Hi everyone - I'm sending this message to say that I'm stepping down from chairing the Metrics Evaluation SIG. It has been mostly dormant for the last couple of years, and although there has been some activity around the time of conferences, it has not been sustained. I think that there are

[MCN-L] Evaluation

Hi everyone - I thought I'd bring over this interesting post from the MCG listserv. Thoughts? Sheila Carey (Chair, Metrics Evaluation SIG) Analyste des publics et des programmes | Audience and Program Analyst R?seau canadien d'information sur le patrimoine (RCIP) | The Canadian Heritage

[MCN-L] archiving online content

Hi - I have a follow-up to my question last week. Thanks, Susan, for sending the information about how your museum handles online archives. I'm also interested in issues broader than the 'archiving exhibits' mentioned in my original query. I'm also interested in how museums are handling

[MCN-L] Criteria for assessing virtual exhibitions

Hi everyone - has anyone developed criteria for assessing virtual exhibits for decommissioning or archiving? The sites that I've found with a virtual exhibit archive appear to have archived older material, but it seems to me that a lot of older virtual exhibits still have value. Has anyone

[MCN-L] Suggestions for Web Analytics software besides Google Analytics

Hi -- this question is timely, although I can't help with an answer! As Chair of the Metrics and Evaluation SIG, I had been planning a survey on what Web stats people are collecting and for what purposes. I was thinking it might be interesting to include questions on what metrics people

[MCN-L] Metrics Evaluation SIG

Hi everyone - it's that time of year again! Do you have any conference sessions you would like to suggest for Metrics Evaluation at the MCN 2010 conference? (Discussions on both quantitative and qualitative evaluation are of interest) Have you undertaken research measuring success and

[MCN-L] MCN Metrics Evaluation SIG

Hi everyone - Im sending this message to invite you to two events of the Metrics Evaluation SIG at the MCN conference in Portland. On Thursday, November 12 from 1:30 to 3:00, the SIG is sponsoring the session: Making the Call: Evaluating Mobile Projects in Museums, which will provide