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The Sustainability “Myth”

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here’s something I’ve been wondering about: are social service and cultural nonprofits really the same species? Sure, we’re united by our 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, but beyond that, what’s our family resemblance, and is it …
Summer Reading: What’s on my iPad

By Elizabeth Merritt

I never have enough time for long-form reading, but every summer I queue up a few things and make time to dive into them. Preferably sitting on the porch. With lemonade. And cats. Here are the next four on my list—these summaries are based …
Monday Musing: When Free is Not Enough

By Elizabeth Merritt

Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give myself 15 minutes or so to jot down a …
Futurist Friday: “Us/Here” Augmented Reality

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’ve been mentioning Microsoft’s HoloLens quite a bit in my speaking and writing–bur often I’m not sure I’m getting across what makes it so exciting.HoloLens is an example of what Barry Joseph has dubbed …
Noodling on the Future of Conferences

By Elizabeth Merritt

May I just say, for the record, that I love love love the AAM annual meeting staff. They do a glorious job each year of pulling off the near impossible—decamping for a distant city to host a few thousand of our besties, orchestrating …
Leadership: The Self-Aware Museum Leader

By American Alliance of Museums

Leadership experts and museum colleagues address the links between self-awareness and successful leadership, in addition to the connections between self-aware leadership and organization…
Peering at the Future of Wearable Tech at AAM 2015

By Elizabeth Merritt

If you joined us for the annual meeting in Atlanta, you may have seen the queue in MuseumExpo for a small gallery plopped down in the midst of the hall. Working the line of folks waiting to don a bright blue, neon orange or distinguished …
2015 Accreditation Commission Nominating Committee and Schedule Announced

By American Alliance of Museums

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 6, 2015 One of the features of the Alliance’s recent reinvention of accreditation initiative is a formal, inclusive and transparent Accreditation Commissioner selection process which is led by a cross-discipline …
The Future of Funding – Revisited

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the best things about attending the annual AAM meeting is the serendipitous networking that takes place 24/7. For example, as I ran from event to event one evening, I connected for just a nanosecond with Carl Hamm, deputy director …
Ethical Everything: managing the moral marketplace

By Elizabeth Merritt

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”—Douglas Adams Increasingly the press and our peers remind us that each purchase we make and each bite we …