From the monthly archives: January 2009

Do You Use Social Media?

by Mary Warner on January 27, 2009 · 24 Comments · in Blog, Information Technology, Marketing

I spend a fair amount of time, mostly personal, online and while there, I am continually looking for museum people hanging out within various social media networks. I’m not having much luck with this. There appears to be a dearth of museum professionals using social media (and other Web 2.0 tools). I’m more than willing [...]

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Coping with Collections

by David Grabitske on January 26, 2009 · 4 Comments · in Advice, Collections

A popular concern with colleagues around the state has to do with handling large collections. Sometimes that collection is new as discussed in Digital Windfall, and sometimes the collection has been sadly neglected for far too long. In either case if a historical organization is to preserve the collection, that collection needs to be made accessible [...]

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Scheduling Software

by David Grabitske on January 26, 2009 · 5 Comments · in Information Technology, Visitation

I would like to find out what other organizations use for registration and scheduling software for large school events.   Thanks, Cheryl Finnegan Print PDF

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Learning from results

by David Grabitske on January 7, 2009 · 2 Comments · in Local History Standards, Marketing

Collecting and applying user statistics can help your organization grow its program or make hard choices in lean times. What statistics do you track? How has what you learned shaped your program? Print PDF

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