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Digging Deeper than Dinosaurs and Pasta
Recently, the Field Museum commissioned research from Slover Linett Audience Research, exploring why people visit a natural history museum. Staff at the museum are using the results to figure out how different kinds of people do or don’t … -
Futurist Friday: A Graphic Look at Big Data and Privacy
Sometimes, in this job, I get dang tired of reading. That’s one reason I so often feature videos in Friday’s periodic glimpse of the future. Next best thing to video? Pictures. So I was tickled to stumble across “Terms of … -
Thursday Thought: Getting Personal
Read this email I received yesterday: Hello Elizabeth! My name is Andrea, and I’m a librarian with The Seattle Public Library’s Reader Services department. Thanks for using Your Next Five Books, our online service for readers. I’ve created … -
Po-tay-to Po-taa-to: On Unpaid Internships
Finally, ok, I’m weighing in. I hesitated for a long time because it wasn’t clear what I could add to an already robust conversation. But this topic is a logical extension of the series of posts in which I’m trying to untangle the … -
Where do museums fit in the new landscape of science engagement?
Early on in our acquaintance, founding CFM Council member Peter Linett detonated a “brain grenade” with a question he has also posed on his firm’s blog: why aren’t museums more often “heartfelt, honest, gripping, funny and…deeply moving”? … -
Throwback Thursday: The (Increasingly) Fractal Taxonomy of Museums
Someone recently asked me whether virtual museums count as museums. I answered that, since museums have never agreed on a shared definition of “museums,” we aren’t in a position to draw lines including or excluding our … -
What’s a Good CEO Worth?
This is part three in an ongoing series of essays sharing my thoughts on museum economics, training and compensation. Catch up with parts one (The Museum Sacrifice Measure) and two (What is the Fair Market Value of a Museum Job). I had … -
Building the Vibrant Learning Grid
Since publishing “Building the Future of Education: Museums and the Learning Ecosystem,” I’ve been on the prowl for examples of museums creating local “vibrant learning grids” by beginning to weave immersive, experiential learning into the … -
What is the Fair Market Value of a Museum Job?
Last week’s post on the Museum Sacrifice Measure generated a lot of discussion on Twitter, Facebook and in the Blog comment section. I recommend you go back and read that post before you read this one: I’m using today’s post to summarize … -
Monday Musing: On the Front Lines
Dear Seb*,Thank you for tweeting me the link to this articleArt gallery ad makes clear wish for an educated staff about the Art Gallery of New South Wales replacing volunteers at the front desk with paid staff. I see they are looking for …
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