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Will You Lose Your Museum Job to a Robot?
Drawing produced by participants in the CFM “Drawing Club” event at the 2012 AAM conference OK, maybe not to a robot, but to increasingly sophisticated automation. This question is prompted by a report released last month by … -
Roundup of Recent News on Accessible Design
With more and more museums pushing content to personal digital devices, we need to remember who we may be leaving out. When Phil and I talk about the digital divide, we are usually thinking of an economic barrier—the shrinking (but … -
Monday Musings: Accessible to Whom?
Another in an occasional series of 15 minute musings on items in the news last week. I’m working on a blog post for tomorrow on museums’ efforts to be accessible to a broad range of audiences. (And it is slow going—please lob stories … -
Finding Community: Engaging Diverse Audiences in a Historic House
In April, 2007, a small but influential group of historic house professionals, association and foundation staff gathered at Kykuit, the historic Rockefeller Estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, for the Forum on Historic Site Stewardship in the … -
Micro-vlogging: Keeking Up with Social Media Trends
Remember when you though Twitter was just a silly fad? (Heck, maybe you still do.) Many people were skeptical about Twitter when it launched in 2006, but that microblog platform took off in 2009 and has turned out to be a popular way for … -
The Future of Food
I’m finishing my edits to a manuscript that grew out of CFM’s Feeding the Spirit Symposium in Pittsburgh last year. The discussion guide we assembled for the subsequent webcast is morphing into an e-book as well as a traditional print … -
For Your Financial Radar: Social Impact Investing
In the course of writing TrendsWatch 2013, Phil Katz and I found many interesting leads that won’t make it into the final copy (coming soon), either because the trends aren’t quite well defined enough, yet, or because there just isn’t room … -
Pop-Up Museums…On Main Street
One of the themes CFM explored in TrendsWatch 2012 was pop-up culture: the public’s growing appetite for mobile, transitory retail, culinary or cultural experiences. Today’s blog post is by Nate Rudy, director of economic and community … -
Coming Soon to Your Museum–The Internet of Cars
I can hardly wait for the “Internet of Cars” to become something we simply take for granted. This includes cars that drive themselves (now legal in Californiaand licensed in Nevada), but also cars that: Find their own parking places And … -
Do Campus Museums Enjoy Greater Freedom to Innovate?
In today’s post, guest blogger Pam Campanaro, Education and Public Programs Coordinator at the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, continues the ongoing commentary on the Campus Art Museum report, with an exploration of the on-campus …
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