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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 … -
Futurist Friday: Summer Reading
Here’s what I have stacked on my nightstand. With a month or two lull from work travel, I might actually make it through these before the museum conference schedule revs up in the fall.“Who Owns the Future?” by Jaron … -
Balancing the Equation
I had the pleasure, last month, of addressing attendees at the League of American Orchestra’s conference in St. Louis. They invited me to share some insights from the museum world about the forces shaping our shared future. As is often … -
The Class System of the Future
In creating their scanning frameworks, many of the “test pilots” in the first flight of CFM’s Digital Badging Projects identified “wealth inequality,” “wealth gap” and other variations on these terms as being issues worth monitoring as … -
Who is the Development Staff of the Future? Look in the Mirror
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Ethics Smackdown: For the Resolution
This is the fourth and (for now) final installment of our report on the debate held at the Alliance in May regarding the future of museum ethics. In today’s post, James Bradburne, director of the Palazzo Strozzi in Firenze, Italy, makes … -
Do You Want to Live Forever?
Phil and I read far more broadly than we can travel, so when Rohit Talwar of Fast Future was kind enough to arrange a complimentary registration to the Global Futures 2045 conference in New York City earlier this month, we tapped Paul …
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