Managing and Growing a Cultural Heritage Web Presence: A Strategic Guide

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Facet Publishing, 2011 - Social Science - 217 pages
In today's hectic and challenging world of website management, it is increasingly important for cultural heritage institutions to make the most out of their presence online. This book provides a complete guide for any institution looking to build or maintain a cultural heritage web presence. It also includes examples and case studies.
 

Contents

Evaluating what you have now
1
Building a strategic approach
21
Content
41
Marketing
63
Policies and guidelines
83
Traffic and metrics
99
The social web Web 2 0
117
The website project process
149
Away from the browser
179
Bringing it all together
195
Bibliography
205
Index
211
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About the author (2011)

Mike Ellis is a Digital Strategist at Eduserv who is particularly interested in how web and mobile technologies can help non-technical people communicate, share and create. He writes and presents extensively, runs conferences and gives workshops on various aspects of web technology. He has spent much of his working life in and around cultural heritage and other content-rich institutions, and was Head of Web at The National Museum of Science and Industry from 2000 to 2007.

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