The webinars that AAM is offering are the best thing that AAM has done for us since Accreditation! Training & travel was one of the first line items cut from our budget. These programs are affordable, relevant, and valuable. As we do performance plans for this year, the AAM webinars are an integrated part of professional development. We are also connecting with other professionals in the area by inviting them to join with us in the learning experience. Thank you.
–Ruth Haas, Director Cape Fear Museum of History & Science
Online Learning Opportunities
Learn without leaving your desk... and build community!
"[The Digital Museum webinar] was just awesome... I'd love to see more of this at AAM!" -Digital Museum webinar participant
What is a webinar and how does it work?
Live Programs On-Demand Recorded Programs
AAM Professional Development online learning opportunities include both live and recorded programs. Live programs, such as webinars and web conferences, provide you with an easy, affordable and accessible way to gain new knowledge and interact with presenters and other participants. On-demand recorded programs offer an affordable and convenient way of learning without leaving your desk.
AAM e-learning programs also offer you the opportunity to build community with colleagues inside and outside your institution. AAM encourages you to pay one registration fee and invite others to gather for learning, discussion and networking.
Live Programs
Understanding Life Stages of the Museum Visitor
June 24, 2009
$25 AAM member; $189 Non-member
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Museum Essentials Webinar Series:
July-November, 2009
$25 AAM member; $189 Non-member
Strategic Thinking and Planning in Today's Economic Climate
Collections Conundrums
Planning for Exemplary Visitor Experiences
Audience Research and Evaluation: Why it Matters Now More Than Ever
HR Basics: Evaluating and Coaching Employees
Project Management Basics
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PR & Marketing for Museums
New two-part web conference!
November 18, 2009
$45 AAM member; $189 Non-member
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Recorded Programs
Preparing for Disaster
New on-demand webinar!
$25 AAM member; $189 Non-member
In collaboration with the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Generously supported by LearningTimes
Disaster preparedness & recovery is a team effort: visitor safety, collections care, public relations, and business operations. The Heritage Health Index found that over 80% of collecting institutions are not adequately prepared for disaster. Is yours one of them? Join experts in the field for this 90-minute program designed to help you prepare for the worst. The program will cover low-cost, practical tips for emergency preparedness, a discussion of cooperative disaster networks, and lessons learned from emergency response teams. This webinar is a great opportunity for staff to discuss & plan together!
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Straight Talk: Museums Rising to the Financial Challenge
4-Part Web Conference!
Four-part series: $99 AAM member; $269 Non-member
Individual sessions: $25 AAM member; $189 Non-member
In collaboration with LearningTimes
Financial challenges are confronting all of us, individuals, institutions and the field itself. Budgets are being cut, programs scaled back, staff levels reduced. What is the impact on our work and our lives and how do we respond? Join this four-part webinar series of 90-minute programs, each exploring issues crucial to museums in these challenging times: retrenchment, fundraising, managing human resources, and communications strategies. Benefit from new ideas and strategies, reliable information and resource-sharing. Let’s rise to the challenge together! Fellowships available.
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The New Tax Form 990: Drilldown
$25 AAM member; $95 Non-member
In collaboration with the AAM Museum Management Committee (MMC), AAM Small Museum Administrators Committee (SMAC-AAM), AAM Information Center and LearningTimes
Join tax specialist Marc Azar, partner at Smith Howard, a museum CFO and a museum director in this 90-minute webinar focused specifically on the new Tax Form 990 core form and schedules due for tax year 2008. This webinar will address questions/concerns that many institutions have or will face with the new return. Gain the detailed 990 information you need to tackle expanded reporting requirements and to favorably position your institution with donors and charity watchdog groups. This program is designed as a complement to the July 2008 AAM webinar, The New Tax Form 990: Why You Should Care, but it is important and valuable information on its own.
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Excellence and Equity- Then, Now, Next: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums
$25 AAM member; $95 Non-member
In collaboration with the AAM Committee on Education (EdCom), Committee on Museum Professional Training (COMPT), AAM Small Museum Administrators Committee (SMAC-AAM) and LearningTimes. Sponsored in part by MetLife Foundation.
Excellence and Equity –Then, Now, Next: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums is a two-part recorded on-demand webinar that explores the important public dimension of museums through the lens of AAM’s newly reprinted landmark publication, Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums. Next generation museum leaders join veteran museum leaders in this lively, thought-provoking discussion about how far we have (or haven’t) come in addressing and advocating for the museum’s role as educational institution.
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The New Tax Form 990: Why You Should Care
$25 AAM member; $95 Non-member
In collaboration with the AAM Museum Management Committee (MMC), AAM Information Center and LearningTimes
As un-sexy as it sounds, the new Tax Form 990 has major implications for museums as public institutions! Join this important and timely webinar to get a better grip on what the form means, how to implement it and how to make it work for you.
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The Digital Museum: Transforming the Future Now
4-Part Web Conference!
$45 AAM member; $150 Non-member
The Digital Museum webinar series will help you explore how recent innovations in technology are transforming museum operations of every kind, from exhibitions and content delivery to education, audience evaluation and institutional planning.
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