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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 … -
Earn Your Future Traveler Badge in Baltimore
Ready for the road to the Alliance annual meeting? Podcastsloaded for the journey? Plane/train readingall picked out? One last thing–take a minute to learn about a new way to share some of the great stuff you are going to hear, and … -
3-D Printing Digital Fabrication Unleashes Creativity
3-D printing is the closest we’ve come so far to making real-life versions of the “replicators” from Star Trek. 2012 was the breakout year for this technology, as it spread from the home workshops of Makers to new public “hackerspaces” and … -
Futurist Friday: Stranger than Fiction
Looking for content to listen to on the way to the Alliance annual meeting? Slate magazine recently launched a six episode podcast–“Stranger than Fiction.” Each week, Tim Wu, a Future Tense Fellow at the New American …
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