During every orchestra website review, several orchestras deserve special recognition for how well they satisfied evaluation requirements as well as demonstrating particular originality and creativity for specific website components. As such, the Special Recognition Awards are designed to highlight individual achievements and promote them as benchmarks within the business…
Year: 2008
2008 Orchestra Website Review: Trends & Detailed Scores
The 2008 reviews witnessed a number of intriguing trends, including a surge in larger budget orchestra scores which allowed them to dominate this year’s Top 10. With a few notable exceptions, this trend continued throughout the rest of the review resulting in 2008 being the first year where the overall rankings favored larger budget organizations…
2008 Orchestra Website Review: Overall Rankings
Between 9/25/08 and 10/8/08, 81 professional orchestra websites were examined and ranked by how well they presented their concert schedule, sold tickets, facilitated making donations, provided organizational information, utilized dynamic content, and on overall content and functionality. On a positive note, the average score was not only higher than any previous year but enjoyed the largest gain since the reviews began in 2004…
2008 Orchestra Website Review: What’s New & Evaluation Criteria
Now in its fifth year, The Orchestra Website Review generates a great deal of interest regarding how orchestras of vastly different budget size can be compared on an even playing field. Happily, the answer is very straightforward…
New Feature: The Cultural Confidence Indicator
Yesterday’s poll asking readers to rate the current economic conditions at their respective performing arts organization as well as rate where they believe those same conditions will exist by the end of the 2008/09 season generated some fascinating results, some good and some bad…