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2012 Orchestra Website (mini) Review: Responsive Roundup

Fri, May 5, 2013
by Drew McManus
2012 Website Reviews
The Annual Orchestra Website Review examines more than 80 professional orchestras in the United States and Canada and rank them by a detailed series of quantitative criteria but due to Orchestra Crisis 2012/13 (details here) we had to postpone and scale back the reviews. As it turns out, the delay was fortuitous in that it set the
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2011 Canadian Orchestra Website Review: Overall Rankings

Mon, Nov 11, 2011
by Drew McManus
Between 10/12/11 and 11/04/11, 14 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 both desktop and mobile platforms.
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2010 Canadian Orchestra Website Review: Trends and Detailed Scores

Tue, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
By and large, it was a fairly neutral year most Canadian orchestra websites. The average score inched up a bit and most of the changes in rank took place among the groups that scored toward the middle…
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2010 Canadian Orchestra Website Review: Overall Rankings

Mon, Oct 10, 2010
by Drew McManus
Between 9/25/10 and 10/12/10, 14 professional Canadian 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 functionality….
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