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  • Want to Make a (Long) Bet On That?

    It’s summer and things are slow, so sometimes Futurist Friday (my sporadic series of posts recommending reading & viewing) is going to fall earlier in the week. This week’s recommendation: the Long Now Foundation’s Long Bets site. …
  • Futurist Friday: Scanning the Crowdfunding Sites

    I hope by now I’ve convinced you of the benefits of reading widely & eclectically, and of including “fringe” as well as mainstream sources in your scanning. Today’s Futurist Friday assignment: set aside 15 minutes to browse a …
  • TrendsWatch 2013 Mid-year Update: The (ever) Changing Shape of Giving

    In the first half of 2013, we’re seeing a growing resentment on the part of nonprofits about the some of the expectations being projected on to them by funders, and the beginnings of concerted action to re-shape public expectations …
  • Museums in a Common Core World

    Over the course of the summer, the CFM Blog is featuring posts based on sessions called out in this year’s Guide to the Future at the Alliance Annual Meeting. Today we hear from Naomi Coquillon, Manager, Youth and Teacher Programs in the …
  • We Hacked a Museum Exhibition

    You may have been following Nina Simon’s account of the Hack the Museum Camp recently hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, or perhaps you read Paul Orselli’s letter from camp. Today Maria Mortati, who facilitated the event …
  • What Movie is your Museum?

    Everyone wants to know the secret to running a successful museum. Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle tackled that question in a new book from the AAM Press Magnetic: The Art and Science of Engagement. Bergeron is associate director for external …
  • Futurist Friday: Nonprofit Apartheid and the Overhead Myth

    I posted some brief musings this past Monday about the blurring boundaries between nonprofit and for profit options for young professionals seeking to do good in their careers. In the comment section, “Albert Nonymous” posted a …
  • 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, …
  • Kickstarting a New Museum: MOFAD

    How can a museum fully integrate food into the whole museum experience—not just the cafeteria or restaurant, but collections, exhibits and programming as well? How would a museum designed, from scratch, around food differ from a …
  • Monday Musing: On Blurring Boundaries

    Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give myself 15 minutes to jot down a summary …

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