Thanks Richard, Kevin and Rick,
Your responses were most helpful for "making the case".
I also discovered that there had been some research around 2008 into this topic by the (pre-Collections Trust) MDA. Obviously it's very old now but if anyone knows where that report is now, I'd love to take a look.
All the best
Peter
Peter Pavement
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Surface Impression Ltd
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On 27 Jan 2014, at 12:39, Richard Macfarlane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As a local authority museum service this is something we have successfully negotiated and found funding for (though still quite cheap) in the belief that we will be able to make major improvements to our web presence. The website is currently under construction and should go live later this year allowing us to do a lot more with it than we can with council pages. Feel free to contact me off list if we can help later with webstats or how we managed the process. Obviously we have no stats for the new site as yet.
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> Richard Macfarlane,
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> Subject: [MCG] Local authority museums: own websites vs pages on the council's site
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> Dear All
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> Does anybody know of any studies or other data sources looking at the effectiveness of separate websites for local authority museums compared to just having some pages on the main council website?
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> I have a few council run museums looking for help to make a case for an independent website as part of their digital media activities. Some facts and figures to back them up would help.(Presupposing that the facts and figures point in that direction of course!)
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> Best regards
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> Peter
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> Peter Pavement
> Director
> Surface Impression Ltd
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