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 [log in to unmask]