Museums and the Web Benchmarking Survey
http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/index.html

Each financial cycle museum Webmasters struggle to justify their 
budget requests. Whenever statistical reports are circulated someone 
asks, "How do we compare?" When exploring the benefits of a new 
function, Web teams ask themselves "Is it worth the investment?" 
Answers to these questions are hard to come by.

To help fill this void in our knowledge about museums' use of the 
Web, Archives & Museum Informatics (the producers of the Museums and 
the Web conference) are launching what we hope will be an regular 
survey of Museums and the Web.


The Survey
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Museum Webmasters are asked to co-ordinate an institutional response 
to this survey, which is divided into three sections.

A. Administrative Questions,  to be answered by someone with 
knowledge of budgets and staffing

B. Design, Technical and Collections Questions, to be answered by 
someone with a knowledge of technical infrastructure

C. Marketing, Membership and Education Questions, to be answered by 
someone with a knowledge of e-commerce, and educational programs

To help with your preparation, a PDF version of the full survey is 
available for download from 
http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/MW-Survey05.pdf

Please complete the survey on-line, at 
http://www.archimuse.com/research/mwbenchmarks/index.html


The Results
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Institutions who complete the full survey will have access to 
anonymized results. No data will be distributed or published that 
identifies individuals or individual museums.

Survey responses will be assembled into benchmarks about museum Web 
activity. Archives & Museum Informatics also expects to publish a 
summary of the results.


Questions
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Please send questions or comments about the survey to [log in to unmask]

Thanks in advance for your help in assembling data about our 
collective Web-based activities.

Best,

jennifer

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J. Trant				[log in to unmask]
Partner & Principal Consultant		phone: +1 416 691 2516
Archives & Museum Informatics	fax: +1 416 352 6025
158 Lee Ave, Toronto
Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada		http://www.archimuse.com
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J. Trant				[log in to unmask]
Partner & Principal Consultant		phone: +1 416 691 2516
Archives & Museum Informatics	fax: +1 416 352 6025
158 Lee Ave, Toronto
Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada		http://www.archimuse.com
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