This document discusses business principles and best practices for managing digitization projects and staying on budget. It emphasizes the importance of understanding costs, tracking staff time, evaluating workflows, and incorporating feedback to improve efficiency. Business tools like budgets, time tracking, and data analysis can help archives complete projects on time and on budget while maintaining quality. Regular evaluation of metrics helps identify issues early and make adjustments to workflows before projects fall behind schedule or go over budget.

1. By: Kim Schroeder Tapping Your Inner CEO: Management Tips to Stay on Budget and Deadline

18. Sample Twitter Project Costs (Assuming no Technology Investment Needed) Needs Assessment 5 hrs $25 x 5 = $125 Developing Content for Twitter/ Competitive Research 10 hrs $25 x 10 = $250 * You should start with a backlog of content Developing Institutional Process 5 hrs $25 x 5 = $125 * Minimum! Setting up Account .5 hrs $25 x .5 = $12.50 Monitoring Account 2.5 hrs $25 x 2.5 = $62.50 * Per Week Minimum! Uploading Content 2 hrs $25 x 2 = $50 * Per Week Minimum! On-going Develop of Content 2 hrs $25 x 2 = $50 * Per Week Minimum! Totals $512.5 Start-up Staff Time $162.5 On-going Weekly Costs

26. Sample Time Ticket 115 9 100 8 15 1 QC-001 55 10 45 8 10 2 Index - 0002 6 60 6 Index-0001 65 13 40 8 25 5 Scan-0003 0 2 2 AMP-002 DAM Meeting HO prod# HO prod# HO prod# HO prod# HO prod# HO prod# HO prod# Totals Sat/Sun Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday Monday Client/Work Order 8/15/2010 Week Ending: Willie C. Durant Employee Name: 220 Bagley, Suite 828, Detroit, MI 48226, phone: 313-963-6355, fax: 413-383-9946 Daily Time Sheet Archive Media Partners, Inc.

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