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Leadership, and Why You Need a SWOT Analysis (and a Personal Board of Directors)

By Greg Stevens

Recently, I was poking around on LinkedIn, and found a couple of short posts that caught my attention. One was How to Do a SWOT Analysis on Yourself (and Why You Need One) by speaker, professor, and author Andy Molinsky; the other was Why …
Generational Inclusion: Shattering Stereotypes and Challenging Assumptions

By Marsha l. Semmel with Elizabeth Isele, Samuel Moore, and Greg Stevens

This article originally appeared in Informal Learning Review (ILR) No. 144, May/June 2017. A copyrighted publication of Informal Learning Experiences, Inc. Reprinted with permission. My recognition of the power and importance of …
Museum Education: China’s Next Big Build-Out?

By Sarah Jesse

Sarah Jesse is the Associate Vice President of Education at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she oversees intergenerational, youth, student, teacher, and community programs. This is the first in a three-part series sharing …
Museum Fieldtrips, from the other side!

By Tara Young

Tara Young is Deputy Director at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA On a 95-degree day in mid-June, I accompanied my daughter Alice’s 3rd-grade class on a “field study” to Lexington and Concord (her twin sister Ruth went the next …
How are you advocating for #museums this summer?

By Ember Farber

Ember Farber is the director of Advocacy at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). In that role, she communicates with AAM’s advocate network and the field about federal policy issues and advocacy opportunities through legislative and …
Watch Featured Speaker Haben Girma from the 2017 Annual Meeting

By jmorin

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The Museum Sector and the Paris Agreement

By Sarah Sutton

Sarah Sutton is principal of Sustainable Museums, a museum consultancy. She is also a member of the PIC-Green Professional Network. The very day President Donald Trump announced that the United States would not sign on to the Paris climate …
3 Questions with the Nichols House Museum

By Cecelia Walls

Over the past few week’s we’ve heard from the Imagine Children’s Museum, the Mob Museum, and the Museum of Danish America on what it means to achieve accreditation. This week we hear from Victoria McKay, executive …
10 Things We’ve Learned About Unbiased Hiring Practices at AAM

By Katherine McNamee

Last fall, I was a guest presenter in an AAM Webinar on unbiased hiring where I shared some blind screening techniques that we have begun incorporating into our hiring practices at AAM. With several recruitment efforts now concluded, my …
3 Questions with the Museum of Danish America

By Cecelia Walls

Over the past two week’s we’ve heard from the Imagine Children’s Museum and the Mob Museum on what it means to achieve accreditation. This week we hear from Rasmus Thøgersen from the Museum of Danish America. 1. What does …