This is a repeat of my previous post. I've given the message a different subject line because I wanted to initiate a discussion of these results with a larger group. The subject line of my first posting was not well thought out. I have done a quick survey to determine how often a particular web site is referenced in another web site's pages. This may provide an indication of how well known a web site is. I have limited my survey to U.S. Natural History Museums of which I am aware. The UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology's website is by far the best known NH website in the United States. I feel that they have some of the best content, but this doesn't explain the sites phenomenal popularity on the web. I would like to get everyone's thoughts on what this particular museum has done which has lead to its obvious success. I would especially like to hear from the team that put the page together. (in other words, I want to know the secret of their success) Jim Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://www.acnatsci.org 329 American Museum of Natural History http://www.amnh.org 70 Bishop Museum www.bishop.hawaii.org 545 Carnegie Museum of Natural History trfn.pgh.pa.us/Carnegie/CMNH/home.html 29 Centennial Museum www.utep.edu/~museum/home.html 1 Chicago Academy of Sciences www.chias.org/ 139 Chula Vista Nature Center sdcc12.ucsd.edu/~wa12/cvnature.html 27 City of Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History www.cruzio.com/~scva/nathist.html 47 Cleveland Museum of Natural History www.zdepth.com/zcleve/cmnh.html 21 Exhibit Museum of Natural History www.exhibits.lsa.umich.edu 65 Fernbank Museum of Natural History stlbbg.gtri.gatech.edu/ 93 Field Museum www.bvis.uic.edu/museum 3375 Florida Museum of Natural History www.flmnh.ufl.edu/ 428 Harvard University Museum of Natural History www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/Cambridge/mapsites/tharvard.html 9 Houston Museum of Natural Science chico.rice.edu/armadillo/hmns/museum_home.html 96 Illinois State Museum www.museum.state.il.us 633 Museum of Natural History and Cormack Planetarium ids.net/~cormack_pl/museum.html 120 Museum of Natural History, U of Georgia gis.lislab.uga.edu/natmus 21 Museum of NH, U of Oregon oregon.uoregon.edu/~mnh/ 66 Museum of Paleontology, UC Berkeley ucmp1.berkeley.edu/ 17882 Natural History Museum, Humbolt State University www.northcoast.com/unlimited/cultural_center/nathist_mus/nat_mus.html 4 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County www.lam.mus.ca.us and www.usc.edu/lacmnh 576 Natural History Museum of Southern Utah www.suu.edu/Museums_Galleries/museum.html O New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science www.aps.edu/HTMLPages/NMMNH.html 384 Peabody Museum www.star.net/salem/pem/ 180 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History www.rain.org/~inverts/ 318 Smithsonian Museum, Museum of NH nmnhwww.si.edu/nmnhweb.html 1277 Virginia Tech Museum of NH www.bev.net/education/museum/ 140 Natural History Museum, London www.nhm.ac.uk 3181 Jim Angus Information Technology and Hypermedia Programs Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90007 voice: 213/744-3317 fax: 213/746-2999 eMail: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]