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Exploring the Edge of Innovation in Seattle
The Call for Proposals for the Alliance annual meeting is now open. First piece of news: the theme is (drum roll) “The Innovation Edge.” Second piece of news: forget the first piece of news. It doesn’t matter. Well, it does matter to us, … -
Relentlessly Social at the Annual Meeting
Guzel duChateau, the Alliance’s New Media Manager, dishes on how we are going social in Baltimore. This year the Alliance is doing something new at the Baltimore Annual Meeting. For the length of the conference we’re running a Social … -
Earn Your Future Traveler Badge in Baltimore
Ready for the road to the Alliance annual meeting? Podcastsloaded for the journey? Plane/train readingall picked out? One last thing–take a minute to learn about a new way to share some of the great stuff you are going to hear, and … -
Futurist Friday: Stranger than Fiction
Looking for content to listen to on the way to the Alliance annual meeting? Slate magazine recently launched a six episode podcast–“Stranger than Fiction.” Each week, Tim Wu, a Future Tense Fellow at the New American … -
On Objects, and Storytelling
Rob Walker The theme for this year’s annual meeting is Storytelling, and we’ve recruited Rob Walker, co-designer of the Significant Objects project, as a thought leader to help us explore how stories add tangible value to the … -
Art Viewing and Mindfulness Meditation
Of the six trends we feature in TrendsWatch 2013, one that has generated the a lot of feedback so far is “Disconnecting to Reconnect”—our exploration of how people are going to great lengths to “unplug.” One of the people I connected with … -
Your Guide to the Future at the 2013 Alliance Annual Meeting
Once again, I’m sharing a selection of futurist picks for the upcoming Alliance annual meeting. The advance registration deadline is April 26, so if you are not signed up yet, jump online! First, an overview of what CFM is up to in … -
2014 TrendsWatch Contenders
With TrendsWatch 2013 hot off the digital presses, Phil and I are already scanning for early signals of the trends we will feature next year. When it comes to scanning, more eyes = better results! We are fortunate to have a growing cadre … -
Keeping up with the 2013 Trends
I hope you’ve had a chance to download TrendsWatch 2013, which we released last month. Phil Katz and I did a Town Hall webcast last week, presenting a brief overview of the report–you can access a recording of that event here.I … -
CFM Returns to the Future with TrendsWatch 2013
The Alliance has just released TrendsWatch 2013: Back to the Future, CFM’s second annual watch list of important emergent trends. If we’re right, and the trends we’ve tagged this year shape the evolution of museums, a museum visit in the …
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