How to Build a Successful Museum Strategy
A successful museum strategy has 3 main components: operational, funding, digital. Departmental decisions are aligned with museum strategy as a whole.
5 Methods to Improve the Museum Digital Experience
5 main methods for improving museum digital visitor experience include practicality, visitor immersion, accessibility, mobile optimization and SEO.
Museum Digital Collections User Types & Expectations
Museums must understand and address digital user types and digital visitor expectations as they develop museum digital collections and online presence.
Museum Social Media and the Museum Collections Management System
A museum collections management system is a major content contributor in a museum social media strategy. Museums should use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram for digital media.
5 Prompts to Prioritize Museum Digitization Projects
Digital museum collections management. When digital presence supports non-digital work, museums maximize benefits of museum digitization projects
The Importance of Sustainable Museum Cataloging & How to Achieve It
Catalogs must meet the needs of the museum and the wants of the audience; choose and implement sustainable museum cataloging rules and guidelines that fit both.
To Be, or Not to Be: Virtual-Only Museums
Virtual-only museums react dynamically to changing trends, user-needs, and new technology. Works best when supported by robust museum collections management system.
Readers’ Choice: Favorite Museum Blog Posts of 2018
The results are in! Guest blogger Rachael Cristine Woody’s museum blog posts are always well received, but we noticed appreciation for three in particular.
Who Owns Digital Culture? An Important Question Museums Must Consider
Museums who provide digital renderings of cultural property can greatly aid in preservation, restoration, education, and enjoyment.
Timeless Collections Management—Argus for Now, Argus for the Future
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia uses Web-based Argus collections management software to increase public awareness of its collections and optmize workflow.
Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility & Inclusion Resources and Practices
Museum staff can adopt diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion statements and develop practices that help meet their DEAI-related intentions.
Museums and Millennials – The Art of Engagement
Millennials are the museum patrons of the future. Appeal to them through social media, especially visual channels such as Instagram and Pinterest.
Open Source—Pretty Simple or Simply Pretty?
The story open source IT managers and information professionals know fails to paint the whole picture and hides some pretty ugly truths.
Global Navigation Enhancements—What’s on the Menu?
Lucidea Labs is continually improving our products. Recently, we introduced a new hamburger menuing system built upon LucideaCore technology.
What Could You have in Common with The Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Like our Argus clients, The Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on accessibility to attract more than 50 million digital visits per year.
Becoming Even More Relevant to your Target Audience: Webinar Reprise
Nina Simon is back for another webinar with us. On Feb. 2, learn from one of today’s most inspiring and thought-provoking museum evangelists and strategists.
Find and Leverage Your Innovation Edge
What are your goals for your museum’s community outreach? How can today’s museum technology help you find your “innovation edge?”
Google’s Mobile-First Indexing Strategy is Critical to Your Organization’s Web Presence
Google’s new mobile-first will give preferential search rankings to mobile-friendly sites. Learn how this will impact your organization’s web presence.
How to Become More Relevant to your Target Audience and Reap the Rewards
Our free webinar on Nov. 15 promises substantive and thoughtful discussion full of useful advice on increasing your museum’s relevance with audiences. Join us!
IT Jujutsu and the Information Professional
When it comes to KM & ILS systems, forging the best relationship with IT, information professionals have to practice what I call “IT Jujutsu.”
5 Ways to Increase Museum Visitor Engagement (and Visits!) Via Your Collections Management System
Social media tools are great for sharing information about your museum. Think them as an unlimited free advertising resource. Here are 5 ways your CMS can help.
The Future of Museums – Getting to Awe
Discussion of how is it possible to create an enhanced museum experience in the online world with virtual reality and inspire awe and wonder.
3 Extraordinary Visual Tech Trends You Can Leverage For Your Museum
There are three visual technology trends that offer museums a great way to market their experience and inspire people to visit in person.
Museums and Digital Citizenship
There are three visual technology trends that offer museums a great way to market their experience and inspire people to visit in person.
Three Social Media Platforms Museums Must Adopt
Social media is a unique, powerful way for museums to connect collections with visitors and donors. In order to capitalize, there are three platforms that museums must be adopted.