Hi Holly: The solutions the Magnes is using might be useful to any small museum. We don't have a whole lot of walk-in traffic, so our visitorship is similar to small museums (even though we have 24 staff members).
We use Guide By Cell (http://www.guidebycell.com/), which is free to visitors and costs $200/month on up. For our email blasts, we use Topica: http://www.topica.com/?p=T3FOOTER Unfortunately, I can't give any specific details about both of these programs, as they're used/controlled by the marketing and education departments, but we have no IT staff and the level of technical knowledge in both of these departments is fairly minimal. Perian Sully Collection Database & Records Administrator Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell St. Berkeley, CA 94705 510-549-6950 x 335 http://www.magnes.org Contributor, http://www.musematic.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Holly Witchey Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:44 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: [MCN-L] A query from a small museum Hi Folks: APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS. I had the query below from a small museum. They didn't want to be bombarded with solicitations, so I told them I would post their question on the list serv and forward the relevant responses. Any help would be appreciated. You can reply to the list serv or me directly if you prefer. Query from a small museum: As part of the marketing committee, we are working diligently to excite and increase our membership. e operate with a small number of staff and volunteers. Our intention isto offer our visitors self-guided tours and beef up our emailing capabilities. We would appreciate very much if you could advise or direct us to types of audio/visual self-guided tours available for small groups of 5 to 10 and the best way of creating a high volume email delivery system with automated unsubscribe tool to reach our membership. Thanks, Holly _______________________________________________ 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
