Web work and skunkworks at a museum

Nina Simon’s post of 13 May 2008 about Museum skunkworks is very timely. I think her third way to achieve change in museums, the skunkworks, is a good solution. But then I would, as we are about to do just that at, or something very like it, at the museum I work at.

In brief, senior management has just given us the go ahead to form a group of web workers from across the organisation to work together to make better use of our website, and the internet in general. We have the support of senior management, and a certain amount of authority.