workshop results

dbear — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:47:00 +0000

We received support for Option Two as a means of achieving Option One over time. It was too drastic, and possibly too complex, to actually dissect everyone's staff and budget at this point to create a new office to support online activity, but the concept of cooperation between institutions with similar objectives as a means towards sharing staff on specific projects, and then having that sharing lead towards an even more integrated model, was attractive.

We expect to be engaged in the following initial working groups:
1) Membership, development, and shop sales
2) Ticketing
3) Course registration and online teaching support
4. Intranet and community building
5. Collections digitization and public access
6. Connectivity, hosting and networking
7. Web metrics and business intelligence
8. Archiving

Institutions are being asked to 'sign on' if they are committed to working in at least one of these groups in the initial year. They may participate is as many as they wish. Costs will be shared; savings and income accrue to the institutions achieving them except that a 10% tithe on new income will go towards collective activity.

The 'sign-up period' will be in December of each year, beginning this year. I will, of course, tell you how it goes:-)

David Bearman

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adavidow — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:15:35 +0000

We're all trying to figure out how this design pattern works. The current economy says, "collaborate" loudly (not that it is necessarily ever a bad idea).

It will be interesting to hear what came out of the workshop and how it goes.

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