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Lorem Ipsum: 5 Keys to Speaking the Same Language as Your Project Team

Category: Alliance Blog
My financial planner talks at lightning speed, using terms like “asset class diversification,” “large-cap funds,” and “variable annuity.” Embarrassingly, I don’t know what any of it means, …

Psyched about Storytelling

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
AAM just announced the theme for our 2013 annual meeting in Baltimore, and it is (drumroll, please): Storytelling This is such a great theme, for many reasons. While people who work in, and …

Bookstore

From titles covering DEAI and governance to exhibitions and digital, the Alliance partners with Rowman & Littlefield (R&L) to publish the best and most comprehensive literature for …

From Theory to Practice: Applying Futures Studies

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
A guest post contributed by Joe Cavanaugh, museum director of the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Joe was one of Elizabeth Merritt’s classmates in the …

Navigating a Disrupted Future at #AAM2021

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
How is a talk different from a written report? How is a digital presentation different from its analog kin? Earlier this week I gave my annual TrendsWatch session at the #AAM2021 virtual …

Reinventing the Historic House Museum: MJT meets the Civil War

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Here is another brief brain jotting as I take a break from writing TrendsWatch 2015. I’ve been vastly enjoying blog postsand tweets from Frank Vagnone, author of the Anarchist Guide to …

Questioning Assumptions: The Ideal Employee:Volunteer Ratio

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Today’s thought experiment: what if, in the future, museums asked not “how many volunteers do we need” but rather “how can we structure our operations to engage as many volunteers as …

Reviewing staff policies and administrative concerns

Administrative Policies Museums should take steps now to revisit and update administrative policies and engage in clear and regular communication with staff in the process. Specific …

Artificial Intelligence The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
  “Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a …

Reviewing staff and administrative policies

Support Free COVID-19 Resources for the Field: These resources have been taken out from behind the member paywall to make them free and accessible for all. The current crisis is taking a …

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