Madrona Beta Testing
We are on our third batch of beta testers this week and the comments on Madrona have been good. Not always glowing - but this is why we beta test.
We started this project wanting to create a new type of collection management system - one that would be ‘built’ by museum professionals, one that would be affordable to small museums, one that would reduce the work flow for people using it and one that would integrate with the new batch of great Web 2.0 tools that are available on the web. It’s a tough order but we are almost there.
Our beta testing began with a small group of museum contacts that we had worked with in the past. This group saw the very rough beginnings of Madrona - very rough. We then opened it up to a remote test group - museum people that were recommended to us or those not geographically close to us that we had worked with previously. This group saw a more polished - but definitely not finished version of Madrona. We made a few more changes - specifically areas that this group had highlighted as issues - and opened it up to our third beta group. This group is again museum people hand picked by us - and again a very small group. In August we open up a much more polished version of Madrona to a much much larger group of museum people. And that’s when it will get really interesting!
Some of the comments we have received so far:
“I am excited about what it will do to help us organize our records.”
“Wow. This could be big stuff, and I am well-pleased to be one of the very first beta testers.”
” I thought the overall look and feel was terrific”
Interested in being a beta tester? Let us know at zeroone@zeroonedesign.com.
