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Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics
Lori Byrd Phillips is the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. As a museum studies graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue … -
The Curation of Collaboration: Experiments in Mobilizing Museum Archives
This guest post is by Gaurav Vaidya, Andrea Thomer, Rob Guralnick and David Bloom. Gaurav, a graduate student at CU Boulder, has been editing Wikipedia since 2002. Rob is a biodiversity informatician, museum curator and collaborative … -
Horizon Report: Museum Edition
For this week’s suggested reading we bring you the Horizon Report: Museum Edition. Released at the MCN Conference this past November, this report examines emerging technologies for museum education and interpretation. I encourage everyone … -
Innovation Ignites: Announcing the 2012 Lab Museums
Cue fanfare! I am so happy to share with you the names of the museums that have been selected to participate in the inaugural round of Innovation Lab for Museums. AAM is bringing Innovation Lab to the museum field through a partnership … -
Group Effort: An excerpt from All Together Now: Museums and Online Collaborative Learning
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2012 edition of the Museum magazine. Creating A Climate For Online Collaborative Learning Online collaborative learning can take many forms. It can range from a blended learning … -
Building a Better Fishing Pole: how technology-focused organizations can help their museum community
Many museums are struggling to navigate the expanding universes of social media and digital content with the slim resources available to them in constrained budgets. Fortunately, some entrepreneurial museums are breaking trail—pooling … -
Innovation Lab: nurturing nonconformity and half-baked ideas
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.”—Daniel Burnham When I previewed CFM’s plans for 2011, I said we would “establish mechanisms to foster innovation and … -
The Transformative Power of Innovation
This guest post is by Richard Evans, president, EmcArts Inc. AAM is partnering with EmcArts, with the generous support of MetLife Foundation, to offer Innovation Lab for Museums. The Request for Proposals for the Lab has just been … -
Technology: A Tool for Storytelling
Michael Balderrama, programs coordinator at AAM, shares news about next week’s Technology, Interpretation and Education online conference—an opportunity for readers to glimpse of how an organic approach to technology can transform the … -
Musarians: The bastard children of museums and libraries.
In today’s guest post, AAM staffer Lauren Silberman, continues her exploration of the entwined futures of libraries and museums. Her first, massively popular post, speculated on what museums can learn from librarians of the future. What …
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