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Building a Better Fishing Pole: how technology-focused organizations can help their museum community

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
The Backward ABC’s of Museum Data

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s blog post comes from Philip M. Katz, assistant director for research at AAM. This was going to be an essay about the power of museum financial and operating data—robust, reliable numbers that can help museums plan for the …
Innovation Lab: nurturing nonconformity and half-baked ideas

By Elizabeth Merritt

“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

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
Agriculture Training Symposium for Historic Site and Museum Professionals

By Elizabeth Merritt

Proving yet again that this is the year of all things food, for museums, Kristin Hagar, development and communications coordinator at The Wyck Association shares the following opportunity to explore how food can help museums build …
Technology: A Tool for Storytelling

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
The Future of Museum Ethics: Launching the Forecast

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week, the Center for the Future of Museums and the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University launch the Future of Museum Ethics forecast, a project to identify emerging issues in museum ethics. This week’s guest post by Erik …
Introducing Food Day!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s guest post is by Carolina Sánchez-Hervás, Food Day assistant coordinator at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit watchdog group that advocates for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy and sound …
The Future of Museum Ethics: A Chat Wrap Up

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM hosted a lively Twitter chat yesterday, soliciting input on the future of museum ethics as a kickoff for the forecasting project we are conducting with the Institute of Museum Ethics this summer. The goal of the chat was to gather …
Forecasting the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s a beautiful spring morning in 2036. Sitting down to breakfast, you gesture at your interactive e-tabletop, bringing up your international museum newsfeed. The lead headline grabs your attention, but you have trouble focusing on the …