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Opening Session and Keynote Speaker Kevin Jennings

By Kevin Jennings
Kevin Jennings, president of the Tenement Museum and Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, shares how everyone's story is worth telling and reminds us that we're only a generation …

Keynote Speakers Donovan Livingston & Frank Waln

By Donovan Livingston and Frank Waln

Keynote Speaker Ericka Huggins

By Ericka Huggins

Museums are More than a Year-End Field Trip

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By American Alliance of Museums

How to Take Part in the Annual Meeting Even if You Can’t be in Arizona

By Cecile Shellman

Name Badge Faces *OUT* (& Other Conference Suggestions…) Beatty ‘s Maxim #5

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By Bob Beatty

Encouraging Respectful, Productive Dialogues: Introducing AAM’s New Code of Conduct

By Lauren Griffin

Meet the #AAM2018 Social Media Journalists

By Cecelia Walls

Chat with AndyBot at AAM 2018

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Engaging the System: Museums Working in the Incarceration System

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Made Any Great Mistakes Lately?

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By Elizabeth Merritt

10 Tips for First-Time Annual Meeting Attendees

By Josette Souza
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Exploring a Fragmented Future

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By Elizabeth Merritt
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The second installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of 2040 is now up on the web for discussion and comment! Fragmentation is woven from some of the anxieties shared by museum people …

Fragmentation: Underground activists fight for equity, privacy, and economic reform

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By Elizabeth Merritt
Category: Future Forecasting
Introduction to This Scenario “Fragmentation” weaves together some of the anxieties shared by museum people when we asked, “What are your fears about the future?” While we hope that these …

Tweeting about a Bright Future

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By Elizabeth Merritt
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Next week my colleagues and I at the Alliance will publish the second scenario in the set of future fictions that make up TrendsWatch 2018: The Planning Edition. This next installment, …