After years of hearing from readers about which features they find important in an orchestra website but never having a way for them to include them into the reviews, it brings me great pleasure to incorporate the Reader’s Choice Awards in the 2009 reviews. This feature allowed readers to take advantage of the opportunity to rate each orchestra website included in the review with a five-star rating system; so without further adieu, let’s see how each orchestra fared…
Month: October 2009
2009 Orchestra Website Review: Special Recognition Awards Plus The Best and Worst Of 2009
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, regardless of overall score. As such, the Special Recognition Awards are designed to highlight individual achievements and promote them as benchmarks within the business. Conversely, the Worst of 2009 examines organizations that could benefit from improving particularly damaging components and/or practices…
2009 Orchestra Website Review: Trends & Detailed Scores
The 2009 reviews witnessed a number of intriguing trends, the most notable being the continued surge in average scores among all budget size organizations. For the second consecutive year, the reviews produced the highest ever average score; on the flip side, that score does produce and overall low grade of D+. Nonetheless, improvement is a positive trend and with some focused attention, there is no reason why next year’s average scores can’t reach the minimum acceptable grade of B…
2009 Orchestra Website Review: Overall Rankings
Between 9/21/09 and 9/28/09, 82 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 reached a new all-time high since the reviews were launched in 2004…
2009 Orchestra Website Review: What’s New & Evaluation Criteria
Now in its sixth 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…