MW2006 BoW Nomination: Professional Site: Global Museum [http://www.globalmuseum.org]

Site: Global Museum
URL: http://www.globalmuseum.org
Institution: Personal 'labour of love' with no institutional or grant support!
Designer[s]:
Category: Professional Site
Explanation: Global Museum has been at the forefront of professional service to the international museum community since the late 1980's. It is a compendium (portal)site that delivers a menu of up-to-date news, resources and current employment vacancies, as well as associated services, to its readers.
It is regarded by users as the most valuable of career posting sites for the profession.
It is is now read in more than 109 countries and maintains a mailbase of 7,500+ subscribers.
70% of this readership is from the USA.
Recent site addtions have included realtime (24X7) newsfeed sub-sections for security and hurricane alerts as it has repsonded to professional needs.
Users remain enthusiastic about the value of Global Museum and a sample of endorsements can be viewed at this URL:
http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/endorsements.htm
As a previous winner of this category (2004) Global Museum's philosopy remains the same " to serve the museum profession and remain an independent and vibrant showcase of value to its professional readership"
I should add that Global Museum is a one-person, nonprofit, operation and this has always been so!



Nominated by:
Roger Smith
Director

Global Museum
New Zealand
www: http://www.globalmueum.org


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All sites are reviewed by the Best of the Web judges. Nominating a
site multiple times does NOT improve its chances of winning an award.


Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics
MW2006 Conference Co-Chairs
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/