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Monday Musing: Solving Social Problems
Today’s brief “musing” looks at a story from Pew Research Center I featured in Dispatches from the Future of Museums last week: Are churches key to solving social problems? Fewer Americans now think so.Summary of the … -
Futurist Friday: Cognitive Museum Buildings
Here’s a short video from Jonathan Strickland of Forward Thinking on the emergence of “cognitive buildings”: structures that use the internet of things (IoT) to analyze performance and anticipate our needs. … -
Moving Primary Schools into the Museum
The museum school movement in the US is gaining steam, and now our colleagues in the UK are jumping on the bandwagon. The “My Primary School is at the Museum” Project, conceived of by architect Wendy James, pairs two primary … -
A New AR Invasion: Pokemon Go!
If you haven’t heard the buzz about Pokémon Go—the new augmented reality game taking the world by storm—well, you must have been locked in collections storage, with no internet access, for the last few weeks. This new game was born from … -
Futurist Friday: A View of the Future Curated by Women
Usually I select small snips for your Friday assignment: videos that are less than 10 minutes long; short reads; sometimes just a mind-blowing picture.This week I’m strongly recommending a long read as well worth your while: The … -
Talking About Museums and Internships
Hi, Nicole here! Throughout the course of my work on museums and labor at CFM this past year, I have had the pleasure of talking with—and learning from—colleagues across the US in various stages of their careers. Time and again, I’ve heard … -
Improving the Future of Hiring
Last week I blogged about the “unbiased hiring” process that we used to fill a recent CFM position here at AAM.Today I wanted to follow up with a few related thoughts sparked by conversations at the Labor 3.0 encounters that CFM … -
Futurist Friday: The Eyes Have It
I’ve been writing and thinking a lot lately about very serious topics: gender bias in the workplace; the way assistive technology can increase the “the digital divide;” the barriers to welcoming people who are not … -
Rethinking Hiring: Walking the Walk
I’m a fan of leading by doing. Which is to say, when I suggest to museums (as I do in every section of TrendsWatch), “you might want to…” I always ask myself, and the Alliance, if we might “want to” as well. Since one major focus of AAM’s … -
On the Power of Words
I’m still catching up with sessions I was unable to attend at the AAM conference in May. (Recordings are available here, and attendees were emailed a code that can be used for free downloads.) One session that received a lot of buzz was …
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