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<[log in to unmask]>, Mike
Ellis <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Hi Rhiannon
>
>In my time at the Science Museum / NMSI, I was part of Marketing, then
>New Media, then a newly formed "Information Department".
>
>In my experience, the best possible outputs happened when we were given
>freedom to "do what we knew best" but with close working with various
>departments. There are lots of classic problems with only working with
>one area. If you follow the archetypes (and quite a lot of the time they
>seem to be true): Marketing tend to be only interested in bums on seats;
>IT don't understand content; Education understand content but not the
>online medium; Curators are just somewhere completely disconnected when
>it comes to online (or even talking to normal people at all...) :-)
... and Publication doesn't get mentioned at all.
Richard
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Richard Light
XML/XSLT and Museum Information Consultancy
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