Joan Pacos wrote: > > Hello, > > I am working on a school research paper to develop options for a museum > to design, manage, and market its website with minimal resources > available to them. Does this sound familiar?!! > > I'm very interested in how you all are doing it. This paper was > conceived from the needs of a small to mid-size Center for the Arts and > Humanities. It will include research in website management, ecommerce > and design. > > I'd be more than happy to share my research with you. Please take a few > minutes to respond to these questions: > > 1) Do you host your own site or contract with an internet service > provider or outside design firm? As a university museum, we are hosted by the university. > > 2a) Do you have a dedicated staff person(s) to manage your website? How > many? What is their background/job description? Full or part time? Did > their position evolve out of another museum position? > One 1/3-time person who has the web site as *part* of his responsibility. Evolved in part from position of computerizing the collections. > 2b) Do you hire a contract person or company to manage your website? > In what capacity? (ie. updates, maintenance, redesign, new features) > No. > 3) How often do you update your website? > Variable, dependent on need for updating and on current projects. Usually at least some changes or additions one or more times per week. > 4) Does your institution find value in investing resources to maintain > its website? How? > Value lies in service to the community (local and otherwise). We consider it as part of the job. > 5) Do you use your website as a marketing tool? How? (ie. on-line ticket > sales, gift shop, etc.) > No (the museum does not charge an entry fee) > 6) Would you be willing to discuss your museum's website evolution in > more detail? Yes. > > Thanks so much in advance. Any other thoughts, concerns, or discussion > is certainly welcome. > > Joan Pacos > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to > [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff > Museum-L" (without the quotes). -- Laboratory for Environmental Biology Centennial Museum (Natural and Cultural History) University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968-0915 phone (915)747-6985; fax (915)747-5808; [log in to unmask] http://www.utep.edu/leb http://www.utep.edu/museum ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).