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.
How to Test and Improve the SEO 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.
SEO and the Discoverable Museum CMS
Search engine optimization (SEO) expands the reach of a museum CMS to make collections widely discoverable.
We Invite You to Leverage a New Grant Resource for LAMs
The grants toolkit empowers LAM professionals by providing information and tools needed to confidently apply for grants.
A Multimedia Museum CMS Supports User Experience Best Practices
The ability to upload, publish, and engage with multimedia files within the museum CMS is critical to meeting user experience (UX) best practices
Meet Baseline Visitor Expectations with a Multimedia Museum CMS
A museum collections management system (CMS) must appeal to digital visitors by offering related multimedia materials grouped together
A Multimedia Museum CMS Makes a Bigger Picture Possible
Museums exhibits increasingly take digital form; as such the best CMS is a multimedia CMS, giving context to objects and meeting visitor expectations
The Benefits of an Integrated Museum CMS Front and Back-End
The best museum CMS front-end results from purchasing a platform with a fully integrated front and back-end. Benefits listed.
The Cost Involved When the Museum CMS Front-End is Separate or Less Than
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
Considering Different Options for Delivering a Museum CMS Public Portal
Fully integrated CMS portals offer benefits for the museum, staff, and digital visitors—and should be considered over other options whenever possible
How to Improve Collection Discovery in the Museum CMS
Discovery designed for the digital hobbyist means providing avenues for visitors to browse information, an object, or collection at the museum.
The Internal Uses and Benefits for a Mobile Museum CMS
Your museum CMS must accommodate mobile-first or mobile-primary users due to the reality of pandemic-induced working from home into the future
The External Uses and Benefits for a Mobile Museum CMS
Museum patrons use mobile devices to plan and visit collections, make purchases, and donate. A great mobile CMS experience mimics in-person visitation
The Future is Here: Why Your Museum CMS Must be Mobile
A mobile museum CMS contributes to visitor education, enrichment, enjoyment. It supports staff who perform work in stacks, in the field, or at home
Left Behind: The Inequity of Pandemic Relief Funds
Many inequities exist related to pandemic financial relief to people, corporations, and nonprofits, including museums; read about 3 necessary changes
How to Sell an Off-the-Shelf Museum CMS to Your Boss
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.
What to Look for in an Off-the-Shelf Museum CMS
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
Off-the-Shelf Museum CMS: When to Buy One and Where to Find One
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.
How the National WWI Museum and Memorial Kept Its Employees
Disaster preparedness for museums should be proactive; in this case a WWI museum kept and redeployed staff to digitize and transcribe collections
The Critical Difference Between Museum Deliverables and Outcomes
When writing for a museum grant, it’s important to address both the project deliverables and the project outcomes
How to Determine Museum Grant Suitability: A Check List
Applying for museum grants requires two determinations before work begins: eligibility and suitability; this post covers the latter
How to Determine Museum Grant Eligibility: A Check List
Applying for museum grants requires two determinations before work begins: the museum’s eligibility and suitability to the grant opportunity
How to Increase Museum Grant Success by Mastering the Lexicon
Museum grant writers pay attention to grant lexicons; this post covers grant opportunity lexicons and how to find and use them for greater success.
Museum TrendsWatch 2020: Fostering Financial Sustainability
AAM offers 3 steps museums can take toward achieving sustainable finances: paying attention to data, fostering financial literacy, and experimentation
Museum TrendsWatch 2020: Financial Capital
Museum leaders must focus on financial capital—investments that generate income—and think strategically about how to grow and leverage it.