Build Your Team

Bloomberg Connects is a team effort. The best results come from organizations that draw on the knowledge, perspectives, and voices across their teams and broader community. 

Project Lead

Every great team needs a project lead to guide the process from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Attend all onboarding meetings
• Learn the CMS and understand how to build a guide 
  • In some organizations this portion of the project is taken on by a different team member, but the lead should understand the basics
• Gather the assets needed for the guide (e.g., photos, audio files, text) 
• Manage the overall project timeline
• Coordinates with all internal teams 
• Liaise with the Bloomberg Connects team

Traits of a strong project lead

• Understands your organization’s top level mission and goals OR has access to someone who does
• Is aware of the vision and goals for the guide
• Knows people across the organization who can provide information, assets, stories, etc.
• Is infectiously enthusiastic about launching your digital guide!

Potential Teammates 

Consider including the following people when strategizing and building your guide.

• Executive Director/Leadership
  • Set a vision for the guide and share a welcome message.
• Content Experts (e.g., Curatorial/Artistic Director/Chief Horticulturalist/Chief Zoologist) 
  • Provide content (artwork, captions, etc.) and share stories and context.
• Visitor Experience/Docents/Security
  • Provide FAQs, personal reflections, and be guide ambassadors.
• Education/Interpretation
  • Create interpretive material, suggest tours and audience-specific content, and share their voice.
• Students
  • Help build your guide and create/curate content.
• Legal/Rights Management
  • Handle rights and clearance issues for guide content.
• Marketing/Social Media/Digital/Communications
  • Provide content ideas, repurpose existing content, and promote the guide once live.
• Facilities/Operation
  • Provide floorplans for your map.
• Artists/Performers
  • Share their stories and voices.
• Community Members
  • Provide their perspectives on your institution and highlight their favorite works on view.