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Ethics Smackdown: Preamble
Last week I wrote about the Ethics Smackdown that took place at the Alliance annual meeting last month. This week, Sally Yerkovich, director of the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University and moderator of the debate, sets the … -
The (Ever) Changing Shape of Giving
At the rate the world changes, CFM will never run out of work. It’s only four months since we released TrendsWatch 2013, and already my co-author, Phil, and I are scrambling to assemble updates. This post shares some of the material we’ve … -
Futurist Friday: Interview with Garry Golden
Garry Golden is a professional futurist. (Yes, it is a profession. I myself am a proud member of the Association of Professional Futurists.) I met Garry through our shared academic lineage–he is a full fledged graduate of the … -
The Future—Brought to You By
Ever wonder how CFM can deliver so much content to the field for free? I get that question a lot, from museum professionals as I travel, and from staff of other associations wondering how they might create their own CFM-equivalent. The … -
Ethics Smackdown: A Preview of the Future?
I returned from the Alliance annual meeting in Baltimore to find my scanning feeds clogged with a spate of articles about the threat of the state-appointed emergency manager selling collections from the Detroit Institute of Arts to help … -
What if an Historic House was about Art, and Storytelling, and Change?
Many, many people are struggling with how to reinvent and reinvigorate the historic house. (Including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, whose “Re-imagining History House Museums” is one of the current projects in the … -
Badging in Baltimore: Report from the Annual Meeting
In the spirit of “practice what you forecast,” CFM experimented with digital badging at the annual meeting last week. With the help of LearningTimes, we offered a badge to attendees who attended & commented on at least four sessions … -
Stories in the Art Museum
The theme of this year’s Alliance annual meeting is “storytelling.” However, if you are attending the meeting in Baltimore today, you probably aren’t reading the Blog! For those of you who can’t join us this year, recurring CFM guest … -
Futurist Friday: Bits to Bytes to Bits
Your Friday viewing assignment: a video from the Smithsonian flaunting their 3D scanning and printing chops. These projects, tackling objects ranging from orchids to gunboats, show how this rapidly accelerating technology can be harnessed … -
Relentlessly Social at the Annual Meeting
Guzel duChateau, the Alliance’s New Media Manager, dishes on how we are going social in Baltimore. This year the Alliance is doing something new at the Baltimore Annual Meeting. For the length of the conference we’re running a Social …
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