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A Hard Look at Sustainability, Part I: How Pretty Good is the Enemy of Good Enough
Since CFM first gleamed in AAM’s eye, I have had fascinating discussions with members of the Association’s Green Professional Interest Committee (PIC Green). After all, if we don’t figure out how to live sustainably, the future looks … -
Museums and the Future of Health
A few forecasts about the future:By 2050 40% of Americans will be obese By 2034 over 44 million people in the U.S. will be living with diabetes (compared with under 24 million in 2009.) On a more upbeat note, according to a recent article … -
The “Realness” of Museums’ Online Communities: A Platform for the Future
Colleen Dilenschneider’s posts on Know Your Own Bone are always a “first read” when they pop up on my blog feed. I suggested our recent guest poster, Jonathan Baskin, read her recent post on museums’ use of social media as he organized his … -
An Alternate Future for Museums: Part II
Global brand strategist Jonathan Salem Baskin contributes part two in his series of visions about the future of museums. You can read part one here. Museums in 2020: When Communities Got Real The siren call of Facebook and other social … -
We Saw the Future, Now What?
Guzel duChateau is the CFM Coordinator and AAM’s New Media Specialist. She also leads the association’s Emerging Museum Professionals group. CFM works closely with the EMPs since (after all) they are the museum professionals of the future! … -
Mining MyCulture: serving the community of creative consumers
The CFM report Museums & Society 2034 explored a trend we dubbed “MyCulture”—a rising generation demonstrating an extraordinarily high level of creative output and creative consumption. This week’s guest blogger, Allison Thurman, … -
Challenging Assumptions: Who says “Entrepreneurial” = “for-profit?”
I want to spread the word about the Startup Open, a challenge issued in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 15-21). The Kauffman Foundation has announced it will select the “50 most promising startups” launched during … -
Help Build the Collections of The Universal Museum of Creative Matter!
If you got up right now and walked around your workplace/house/campus/neighborhood, what evidence would you find of small, mundane, creative acts? Why do I ask? I never thought I’d say this, but I am starting a museum. About … -
Museum Eras*—Creativaceous, CarbonNeutraliferous, Developonian?
My last posts on “Futurism 101” talked about the sneaky nature of change, and the constant need to scan for signs of change that is creeping up or waiting to spring upon us. This post introduces eras—patterns in time created by the … -
An Alternate Future for Museums: Part I
This week, global brand strategist Jonathan Salem Baskin contributes the first in a series of visions about the future of museums. His book Histories of Social Media will be coming out later this month. Jonathan connected with me when he …
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