Your museum leadership should make the decision on who manages the website. In our museum, website management is part of marketing and development. As for your proposal to submit specs to several website vendors rather than stay with the current vendor in revamping the site, it depends on how reliable and service-oriented your current vendor is and what their capabilities are. Not a definitive answer, I know, but there are a lot of factors to be considered.
Barbara Stokes, Senior Curator Archives, Collections, and Programs Museum of South Texas History 200 N. Closner Boulevard Edinburg, TX 78541 bstokes at mosthistory.org 956/383-6911 -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of william jahsman Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:47 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Organizational Question Hi, list members. I'm a recent subscriber. I work at a museum-in-progress, The Leonardo, in Salt Lake City. As with all startups, there are a million things to do. My short list is programming for Body Worlds and beyond, procurement of a membership system, new website development, and infrastructure. The exhibits director is proposing we sole source our website development to our current vendor. Our current website (www.theleonardo.org) is beautiful but not very functional. I'm proposing we submit our requirements to several vendors and choose the best one. Is it customary for an exhibits manager to specify website development? How is it handled in your organization? TIA, Bill Jahsman The Leonardo 801-531-9800 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
