
The Benefits of a Discoverable CMS
Digital museum SEO is a continual practice; investing in and maintaining good SEO should be incorporated into routine maintenance of your museum CMS.
Digital museum SEO is a continual practice; investing in and maintaining good SEO should be incorporated into routine maintenance of your museum CMS.
This post describes how to effectively test the SEO of a museum CMS and offers 5 methods for how to get a jump start on improving it.
Search engine optimization (SEO) expands the reach of a museum CMS to make collections widely discoverable.
The grants toolkit empowers LAM professionals by providing information and tools needed to confidently apply for grants.
The ability to upload, publish, and engage with multimedia files within the museum CMS is critical to meeting user experience (UX) best practices
A museum collections management system (CMS) must appeal to digital visitors by offering related multimedia materials grouped together
Museums exhibits increasingly take digital form; as such the best CMS is a multimedia CMS, giving context to objects and meeting visitor expectations
The best museum CMS front-end results from purchasing a platform with a fully integrated front and back-end. Benefits listed.
A museum CMS with a separate or “add on” front-end portal is better than no portal, but can come with significant added costs; things to consider
Fully integrated CMS portals offer benefits for the museum, staff, and digital visitors—and should be considered over other options whenever possible
Discovery designed for the digital hobbyist means providing avenues for visitors to browse information, an object, or collection at the museum.
Your museum CMS must accommodate mobile-first or mobile-primary users due to the reality of pandemic-induced working from home into the future
Museum patrons use mobile devices to plan and visit collections, make purchases, and donate. A great mobile CMS experience mimics in-person visitation
A mobile museum CMS contributes to visitor education, enrichment, enjoyment. It supports staff who perform work in stacks, in the field, or at home
Many inequities exist related to pandemic financial relief to people, corporations, and nonprofits, including museums; read about 3 necessary changes
Evidence of a museum CMS helping you do your job better is important; also tell your boss how the CMS is a good choice for the museum as a whole.
Learn how to evaluate an off-the-shelf (packaged) museum CMS based on Top Things to Look For (intuitive, customizable, adaptable) and Things To Avoid
Evidence of a museum CMS helping you do your job better is important; also tell your boss how the CMS is a good choice for the museum as a whole.
Disaster preparedness for museums should be proactive; in this case a WWI museum kept and redeployed staff to digitize and transcribe collections
When writing for a museum grant, it’s important to address both the project deliverables and the project outcomes
Applying for museum grants requires two determinations before work begins: eligibility and suitability; this post covers the latter
Applying for museum grants requires two determinations before work begins: the museum’s eligibility and suitability to the grant opportunity
Museum grant writers pay attention to grant lexicons; this post covers grant opportunity lexicons and how to find and use them for greater success.
AAM offers 3 steps museums can take toward achieving sustainable finances: paying attention to data, fostering financial literacy, and experimentation
Museum leaders must focus on financial capital—investments that generate income—and think strategically about how to grow and leverage it.