J. Trant wrote:
 
>Who is responsible for an online site? Is it the curatorial
>departments? The registrar? Education? Public Programs? Information
>Technology? Each of these communities has differing priorities and a
>difference sense of the audience for whom an on-line site would be
>constructed. AAM cuts across these groups - as does ICOM at the
>international level.
 
I will, in the next couple of months, be able to give you an answer to
who is responsible for a museum's online site. I would also include the
design and publications departments in the mix since that is where so
many elements conveniently end up.
 
> But I'd heard that AOL wasn't particularly happy with the results in terms
> of luring subscribers.
 
>Where did you hear?
 
One of those boozy online cocktail parties I go to. Probably with the
newspaper people on online-news. I think AOL is much happier with the
concept that the NY Times came up with: Arts and Entertainment, with
the emphasis on ENTERTAINMENT (aka Mickey Mouse).
 
Robbin Murphy
Managing Editor, ArtNet
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