The MUSE awards were announced at AAM this week, and the list represents an interesting overview of museum technology activity.

Here's a project that wasn't recognised [something that surprised me a bit]: The milti-touch tables at the Denver Art Museum.

The second part of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) report on information technology in Not for Profits is now available. Nonprofit IT Staffing: Budgets, Salaries, Training and Planning reports the results of a USA national survey.

Findings of the second Nonprofit IT Staffing Report include:

i've just added pictures to the user listing available for registered users at http://conference.archimuse.com/users it's nice to see some familiar – and new – faces there.  if you haven't uploaded your picture, you can add one to your profile. visit "my account", choose "edit", and see the instructions under "picture".

there are more than 850 users registered here now; i think it's time to consider some more networking functionality ... i'm open to ideas, and proposals to help out ;)

/jt 

j. trant, archives & museum informatics, www.archimuse.com 

There's a new report out from NTEN and the Nonprofit Times about IT staffing in Not for Profits. Download the report

Highlights from the Executive Summary:

• On average, nonprofits employ one IT staff member for every 18 employees.
• Most nonprofits continue to feel understaffed when it comes to IT. Size of organization did not seem
  to impact staffing satisfaction.
  
• IT staff spend their time in much the same way, regardless of organization size or level of technology adoption. For the second year, the largest percentage of staff time, roughly 40%, is spent on desktop and application support.
• The average tenure for IT staff at nonprofits is 4.3 years. Tenures were longer for larger organizations and organizations that felt they had greater technology adoption.
• Almost all nonprofits outsource at least some technology tasks; more technical tasks continue to be
  more commonly outsourced.
  

There are reports coming on Salaries & Budgets and IT Management & Planning based on the same survey

The Scottish Museums Council has published the results of its recent survey of ICT in Scottish Museums to its website at http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/areas_of_work/ICT/ICT_survey.asp .

The survey of SMC members was conducted in October and achieved a very ositive response rate of over 50%. The report maps the results against hose of the last ICT survey which was conducted just after the launch f the SMC's 'A national ICT strategy for Scotland's museums' in 2004, nd is one way in which SMC is measuring the outcomes and benefits of this publication.

[via MCG]