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2010 Orchestra Website Review: Best & Worst Of

Fri, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
Wrapping up the US reviews for 2010 is the Best & Worst from this year’s review. The Best recognizes orchestras that made particularly large advancements in certain categories while the Worst examines organizations that could benefit from improving particularly damaging components and/or practices…
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2010 Orchestra Website Review: Special Recognition Awards

Thu, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
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 field…
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2010 Orchestra Website Review: Trends & Detailed Scores

Wed, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
The 2010 reviews witnessed a number of positive trends, the most notable being a strong uptick in average scores among all budget size organizations. As a result, the reviews produced the highest ever average score of 71.23 and finally broke out of the “Grade D” basement…
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2010 Orchestra Website Review: Overall Rankings

Tue, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
Between 9/25/10 and 10/12/10, 72 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
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2010 Orchestra Website Review: Evaluation Criteria & What’s New

Mon, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
Now in its seventh 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…
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