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Argus Webinars
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Rachael Woody Webinars
Power in Partnerships: Sharing with Collections Management Systems
Better Together: How Creative Partnerships Build Museum Financial Resilience
Can a Museum be Too Small, Large, or Weird for a CMS?
Strategies for Effective Collections Management Work
An Introduction to Building Resilient Digital Collections
The Benefits of Digital Storytelling with Collections Online
The Challenges to Plan for When Launching a Digital Storytelling Program
An Introduction to the Immersive Museum Experience
Storytelling with 3D and Virtual Tours
Introduction to Visual Storytelling Platforms
The CMS as Storytelling Infrastructure
Collections Online as Storytelling Elements
Storytelling Design: Translating the Physical to Digital
Finding Story Inspiration with Collections Online
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Storytelling Goals with Collections Online
Enhance Museum Collections Online with “Hidden” Troves of Information
Museum Collections Online and the Potential of AI
How to Construct Museum CMS Projects that Attract Funding
Accessibility Standards for Museum Collections Online
How to Perform Data Enhancement for Your Museum CMS
How to Incorporate Interns in Museum CMS Projects
I Finally Have a Museum CMS; Now What?
What to Do When Collection isn’t Cataloged
AMA: How to Prepare for a New CMS
Building the Case for Museum Job Salaries
How to Build a Paid Intern Program
How to Create a Value-Informed Budget
How to Prepare for a New Museum CMS
Preparing for Museum Data Migration
Figuring Out Museum Digital Storage
Strategies for Museum Data Remediation
Evaluating the Shape of Museum Data
Argus Museum CMS in Real Life
Dismantling Barriers to a New Museum CMS
Ask Me Anything; Museum Digital Projects Webinar
How to Work with a Consultant on Museum Digital Projects
Sustainable Museum Digital Projects
Digital Projects: Staff, Volunteers, or Interns
5 Museum Digitization Myths to Delete Forever!
How to Fund Your Next Museum Digital Project
How to Identify and Select Your Next Museum Digital Project
Tech session MAAM 2022 | Why a Powerful CMS is Essential to Your Museum’s Digital Infrastructure
5 Steps to Intentional Museum Work
Create a Museum Digital Project Workflow that Works
How Much Will Museum Digital Projects Cost Me?
The Essentials of Evaluating Museum DAMS vs CMS
Choose the Right Tools for Museum Digital Projects
Creating a Successful Museum Digital Project
Museum Digital Project Success Factors
Ask an Expert Anything About a Museum CMS
Ask Me Anything About Grants PART 3
Ask Me Anything About Grants PART 2
How to Put Museum CMS Data to Work
Ask Me Anything About Grants
Increase Your Audience with a Discoverable Museum CMS
Why the Multimedia Museum CMS is the New Standard
The Museum CMS Portal: Separation and Integration
Why Your Museum CMS Must be Mobile
Shopping for an Off-the-Shelf Museum CMS
Museum CMS Workflows, Standards, and Tools to Use
How to Select, Buy and use the Right CMS for Your Museum
6 Steps For Successful Museum CMS Implementation and Migration
You Need a New Museum CMS, Now What?
How to Make the Case for a (Better) Museum CMS
Museum Cultural Heritage Online Experiences
How to Evaluate Museum Digital Collections & Build Successful Digital Projects
Museum Digital Visitors: Identify, Understand, Engage
DEAI and What it Means for Your Museum
Prioritize and Plan for Museum Grant Acquisition
Secrets of Successful Grant Funding Applications
Build a Winning Grant Idea
Museum Grant Roadblock Removal: How to Get Around Obstacles and Get Into Grants
How Museums Use Technology To Foster Access Visibility, And Sharing – Sept. 2017
Making Museums Relevant: A Conversation with Nina Simon
Museum Collections Management Update: Achieve More Than You Imagine, In Less Time Than You Expect
The Perfect Match: Finding the Right CMS for You
Inspire Wonder, Connect a Cultural Community
Behind the Scenes at History Colorado
Argus Museum CMS in Real Life
Tech session MAAM 2022 | Why a Powerful CMS is Essential to Your Museum’s Digital Infrastructure
How Museums Use Technology To Foster Access Visibility, And Sharing – Sept. 2017
Museum Collections Management Update: Achieve More Than You Imagine, In Less Time Than You Expect
The Perfect Match: Finding the Right CMS for You
Inspire Wonder, Connect a Cultural Community
Behind the Scenes at History Colorado
Power in Partnerships: Sharing with Collections Management Systems
Better Together: How Creative Partnerships Build Museum Financial Resilience
Can a Museum be Too Small, Large, or Weird for a CMS?
Strategies for Effective Collections Management Work
An Introduction to Building Resilient Digital Collections
The Benefits of Digital Storytelling with Collections Online
The Challenges to Plan for When Launching a Digital Storytelling Program
An Introduction to the Immersive Museum Experience
Storytelling with 3D and Virtual Tours
Introduction to Visual Storytelling Platforms
The CMS as Storytelling Infrastructure
Collections Online as Storytelling Elements
Storytelling Design: Translating the Physical to Digital
Finding Story Inspiration with Collections Online
Storytelling Goals with Collections Online
Enhance Museum Collections Online with “Hidden” Troves of Information
Museum Collections Online and the Potential of AI
How to Construct Museum CMS Projects that Attract Funding
Accessibility Standards for Museum Collections Online
How to Perform Data Enhancement for Your Museum CMS
How to Incorporate Interns in Museum CMS Projects
I Finally Have a Museum CMS; Now What?
What to Do When Collection isn’t Cataloged
AMA: How to Prepare for a New CMS
Building the Case for Museum Job Salaries
How to Build a Paid Intern Program
How to Create a Value-Informed Budget
How to Prepare for a New Museum CMS
Preparing for Museum Data Migration
Figuring Out Museum Digital Storage
Strategies for Museum Data Remediation
Evaluating the Shape of Museum Data
Dismantling Barriers to a New Museum CMS
Ask Me Anything; Museum Digital Projects Webinar
How to Work with a Consultant on Museum Digital Projects
Sustainable Museum Digital Projects
Digital Projects: Staff, Volunteers, or Interns
5 Museum Digitization Myths to Delete Forever!
How to Fund Your Next Museum Digital Project
How to Identify and Select Your Next Museum Digital Project
5 Steps to Intentional Museum Work
Create a Museum Digital Project Workflow that Works
How Much Will Museum Digital Projects Cost Me?
The Essentials of Evaluating Museum DAMS vs CMS
Choose the Right Tools for Museum Digital Projects
Creating a Successful Museum Digital Project
Museum Digital Project Success Factors
Ask an Expert Anything About a Museum CMS
Ask Me Anything About Grants PART 3
Ask Me Anything About Grants PART 2
How to Put Museum CMS Data to Work
Ask Me Anything About Grants
Increase Your Audience with a Discoverable Museum CMS
Why the Multimedia Museum CMS is the New Standard
The Museum CMS Portal: Separation and Integration
Why Your Museum CMS Must be Mobile
Shopping for an Off-the-Shelf Museum CMS
Museum CMS Workflows, Standards, and Tools to Use
How to Select, Buy and use the Right CMS for Your Museum
6 Steps For Successful Museum CMS Implementation and Migration
How to Make the Case for a (Better) Museum CMS
Museum Cultural Heritage Online Experiences
How to Evaluate Museum Digital Collections & Build Successful Digital Projects
Museum Digital Visitors: Identify, Understand, Engage
DEAI and What it Means for Your Museum
Prioritize and Plan for Museum Grant Acquisition
Secrets of Successful Grant Funding Applications
Build a Winning Grant Idea
Museum Grant Roadblock Removal: How to Get Around Obstacles and Get Into Grants
Making Museums Relevant: A Conversation with Nina Simon
Behind the Scenes at History Colorado
Power in Partnerships: Sharing with Collections Management Systems
Better Together: How Creative Partnerships Build Museum Financial Resilience
Can a Museum be Too Small, Large, or Weird for a CMS?
Strategies for Effective Collections Management Work
An Introduction to Building Resilient Digital Collections
The Benefits of Digital Storytelling with Collections Online
The Challenges to Plan for When Launching a Digital Storytelling Program
An Introduction to the Immersive Museum Experience
Storytelling with 3D and Virtual Tours
Introduction to Visual Storytelling Platforms
The CMS as Storytelling Infrastructure
Collections Online as Storytelling Elements
Storytelling Design: Translating the Physical to Digital
Finding Story Inspiration with Collections Online
Storytelling Goals with Collections Online
Enhance Museum Collections Online with “Hidden” Troves of Information
Museum Collections Online and the Potential of AI
How to Construct Museum CMS Projects that Attract Funding
Accessibility Standards for Museum Collections Online
How to Perform Data Enhancement for Your Museum CMS
How to Incorporate Interns in Museum CMS Projects
I Finally Have a Museum CMS; Now What?
What to Do When Collection isn’t Cataloged
AMA: How to Prepare for a New CMS
Building the Case for Museum Job Salaries
How to Build a Paid Intern Program
How to Create a Value-Informed Budget
How to Prepare for a New Museum CMS
Preparing for Museum Data Migration
Figuring Out Museum Digital Storage
Strategies for Museum Data Remediation
Evaluating the Shape of Museum Data
Dismantling Barriers to a New Museum CMS
Ask Me Anything; Museum Digital Projects Webinar
How to Work with a Consultant on Museum Digital Projects
Sustainable Museum Digital Projects
Digital Projects: Staff, Volunteers, or Interns
5 Museum Digitization Myths to Delete Forever!
How to Fund Your Next Museum Digital Project
How to Identify and Select Your Next Museum Digital Project
5 Steps to Intentional Museum Work
Create a Museum Digital Project Workflow that Works
How Much Will Museum Digital Projects Cost Me?
The Essentials of Evaluating Museum DAMS vs CMS
Choose the Right Tools for Museum Digital Projects
Creating a Successful Museum Digital Project
Museum Digital Project Success Factors
Ask an Expert Anything About a Museum CMS
Ask Me Anything About Grants PART 3
Ask Me Anything About Grants PART 2
How to Put Museum CMS Data to Work
Ask Me Anything About Grants
Increase Your Audience with a Discoverable Museum CMS
Why the Multimedia Museum CMS is the New Standard
The Museum CMS Portal: Separation and Integration
Why Your Museum CMS Must be Mobile
Shopping for an Off-the-Shelf Museum CMS
Museum CMS Workflows, Standards, and Tools to Use
How to Select, Buy and use the Right CMS for Your Museum
6 Steps For Successful Museum CMS Implementation and Migration
You Need a New Museum CMS, Now What?
How to Make the Case for a (Better) Museum CMS
Museum Cultural Heritage Online Experiences
How to Evaluate Museum Digital Collections & Build Successful Digital Projects
Museum Digital Visitors: Identify, Understand, Engage
DEAI and What it Means for Your Museum
Prioritize and Plan for Museum Grant Acquisition
Secrets of Successful Grant Funding Applications
Build a Winning Grant Idea
Museum Grant Roadblock Removal: How to Get Around Obstacles and Get Into Grants
Datasheets
Primers
The Museums and Collections Management Primer
What is a museum? What are museum jobs? What is a museum collections management system? Learn the basics of museums, what they do, and what makes them successful.
Museum Collections Management System Primer
Museum collections management systems (CMS) like Argus are used to make collections accessible to digital visitors and improve museum workflow.
eBooks
Weaving a Digital Narrative: Storytelling with Online Collections
Rachael Cristine Woody
Weaving a Digital Narrative: Storytelling with Online Collections teaches you how to fully leverage your technology investment, including your collections management system (CMS) to create visual storytelling platforms, virtual tours, and immersive exhibitions as vehicles to increase online visitor engagement.
A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing
Rachael Cristine Woody
A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing takes a pragmatic approach to such topics as seeing each grant application as an opportunity, learning and moving on from inevitable failures, using grant acquisition to provide valuable financial sustenance to the museum without negatively impacting staff, and applying a systematic, common sense methods that builds the necessary skills to survive the grant writing process and thrive within it.
Demystifying Data Preparation for a New CMS
Rachael Cristine Woody
Learn how to prepare museum data for a new CMS.
This book outlines how to prepare museum content (data and assets) for migration to a new museum collections management system through a process of data evaluation, data remediation (cleanup), and data preparation—demystifying what can be an intimidating process and leading to the other side, where your data awaits you in a shiny new CMS.
The Discovery Game Changer: Museum Collections Data Enhancement
Rachael Cristine Woody
Learn how to prepare museum data for a new CMS.
This book will guide you on how to creatively leverage use resources like GenAI and internships, and share effective strategies to improve accuracy and efficiency—no matter which CMS you use. While data enhancement is optional, using the right tools and methods can make a big difference for your collections.
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS
Rachael Cristine Woody
How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS explains how to search for, select, buy, implement, and maximize the value of a museum collections management system. In order to deliver the best return on investment in a collections management system, staff need to know:
How to begin the search for the right CMS; how to navigate the procurement process; how to prepare for what migration will entail; what workflows, standards, and tools they should be aware of, and how to use a CMS to its maximum potential.
Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin?
Rachael Cristine Woody
Digital projects are critically important to a museum’s mission of caring for and providing access to its collections. With that in mind, Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin? covers the components of a successful museum digital project, how to create and manage a successful digital project, how to choose the right tools for museum digital projects, evaluating the museum DAMS vs CMS, how much museum digital projects cost, and creating a museum digital project workflow that works.
Prepare for Takeoff: Getting Your Museum Digital Project Off The Ground
Rachael Cristine Woody
Learn the secrets of successful museum digital projects
Museum digital projects require personnel who are subject-matter experts, technologists, and project managers. Once you have knowledge, skills, and abilities accounted for, it is time to learn the strategies necessary to create and execute your project. Prepare for Takeoff: Getting Your Museum Digital Project Off The Ground will guide you through all aspects of the initiative and help set you up for success.
Grants Workbook & Templates
Second Edition
Lucidea Press
Grant funding is increasingly important to the future of heritage institutions. We know how challenging it can be to apply for grant funding, especially when time and expertise are hard to come by. This workbook provides an introduction to grant application elements, an overview of information to prepare for each application section, and four sample project templates.