Hello Everyone,
We just started a "stand alone" social networking web site for museums and
educational institutions called the Museum and Educational Social Network
(MESN). There has been a lot of talk in the museum community lately about
sites like MySpace, FaceBook, and others but none have a n
A common model is to control content in the Marketing/Communications
department, and then have IT responsible for implementing and maintaining
the site. This ensures that look and feel, content maintenance, and the
general "communications" of the website are overseen by the group that does
similar
Hi Perian,
We (or I) are in a similar situation, in that we have no web team or an
IT Department. Let's see if I can explain our workflow with more detail
than people send stuff to me (or I beg for it) and I put it on the
website. :-)
As Curator of Interactive Media, I am a member of our Collec
Perian,
I know that this may not exactly be the type of answer you are looking for,
but before deciding on the workflow, and what seems to be the internal
"ownership" of the website, you way want to be clear on what i believe are
two important questions:
Who are the most significant stakeholders
Our museum maintains a web-browser accessible internal database where we
keep a complete set of records, images, videos, and audio recordings
from our collections. The internal database is Mimsy XG from Willoughby
Associates. We are beginning to investigate migrating all or a portion
of our web-rea
Dear Len:
Thanks for your reply. As our current website is ca. 1997, and we're
about to lauch a capital campaign, the entire museum is very keen on
being involved with the production of the new website. However, the main
persons in charge of developing the site are all part of the Curatorial
and E
