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Why VR?: Enhancing IRL (In Real Life) Experiences for visitors to the British Museum
2016 is clearly a break-out year for Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, with numerous companies releasing relatively affordable, consumer-ready devices. Still, when I was writing TrendsWatch 2016 last fall, I found relatively few museums … -
My Recap from a Workplace Inclusion Forum
Today’s guest post is by the Alliance’s president & CEO, Laura Lott.She’s been on the hunt for resources to help AAM become a more inclusive workplace, and that search took her to Minneapolis for what turned out to be … -
MOOC: Behind the Museum
<!—->Having started my museum career in a very, very small museum (that no longer exists), I am hypersensitive to the needs of people working in organizations with miniscule resources. Professional development is particularly … -
Why Create & Use Open Source Software? Reflections from an imaging nonprofit
Doubtless your news-feed, like mine, is flooded with stories about the “open” economy: the rise of open data, open software, open government. (For an introduction to the trend, revisit the related chapter in TrendsWatch 2015.) … -
Monday Musing: Combating Bias by Redesigning the Interview Process
This week’s musing isn’t even going to take me the usual 15 minutes. Here, read this: How to Take the Bias Out of Interviews.I’ve written about challenge-based hiring and blind auditions as techniques to reduce hiring … -
Futurist Friday: Five Years of Forecasting
About 4,000 people a year download TrendsWatch—CFM’s annual forecasting report–as a free PDF. But we print a couple thousand physical copies each year as well. Some people prefer to go off-line for their reading, enjoy … -
The Distributed Future of Museum Education
Several years ago, in a post about campus art museums, I posed the question “With education increasingly unbundled and distributed, what is the role of museums in creating a sense of place?” In today’s post, Jennifer Wagelie … -
Your Guide to Labor 3.0 at the Annual Meeting
Hi, Nicole here! I’m excited to share what we’ve been up to at CFM around the issue of museums and labor and invite you to join in at this year’s annual meeting. Image credit: R. Black Labor issues continue to be front and center as the … -
Announcing Education Future Fiction Challenge Winners
Hi, Sylvea here… In late January the we invited museum professionals, educators, futurists, education policy advocates, and community allies to contribute their vision of an educational future for the US that places museums at its … -
Your Guide to the Future at the AAM Annual Meeting 2016
It’s so great to be having the annual meeting in DC this year! I look forward to showing you around my home turf and sharing some of local museum treasures during receptions, evening events and offsite programs on Saturday and Sunday …
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