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Monday Musing: Scrutinizing Nonprofit Status

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of …

Monday Musing: Social Impact Bonds

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of …

Monday Musing: When Free is Not Enough

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
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 …

Monday Musing: On Small Dead Things

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
15 minutes of top-of-my-head thoughts on a story featured in last week’s Dispatches from theFuture of Museums e-newsletter. One of the things that drove me out of graduate school (besides …

Monday Musing: Millennial Anti-Materialism

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I read an article in the Washington Post last Friday that resonated with some nascent thoughts on the role of museums shaped by audiences born between 1980 and 2000. The story, by Jura …

Monday Musing: TrendsWatch Watch

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Here’s a quick roundup of recent stories related to the themes in TrendsWatch 2015 (Haven’t got your copy yet? Download the free PDF here. Print copies will be available in the AAM …

Monday Musing: Quantifying the Sacrifice Measure

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I’ve been sitting on this figure for awhile. Steven Lubar (@lubar) from Brown University lobbed the associated NPR story at me on Twitter in response to one of my posts on museum …

Monday Musing: Making it Personal with Telepresence

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This video caught my attention this morning: a crowdfunding pitch for what is billed as “the world’s first social innovation telepresence experience.” This system, …

Monday Musing: A Prescription for Museum Sustainability

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating …

Monday Musing: Looking to Hawaii for the Distributed Future

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Futurist William Gibson observed “the future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” In CFM’s report “Tomorrow in theGolden State” we looked to California for glimpses of …

Monday Musing: Beyond Conformity & Compliance

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Here’s an article I encourage you to read to start your week: Sir Ken Robinson: How to Create a Culture For Valuable Learning (Mind/Shift, KQED News).  Sir Ken has been …

Monday Musing: A Radical Proposal on Student Debt

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Student debt is a huge issue in our field, especially for emerging museum professionals. So this article caught my attention last week: No more student loans? Purdue University …

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