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It’s Not About the Cat Cams

By Elizabeth Merritt

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger, Tumblr—the world is awash in social media platforms and museums are, like the rest of the world, experimenting with when to use them, to what ends and how to measure success. Guest blogger …
The Future of Development: Crowdsourced Funding

By Elizabeth Merritt

When AAM conducted its 2009 Museum Financial Information survey, a quarter of respondents had a capital campaign in progress. We don’t even have stats on how many museums regularly run annual giving campaigns, but it sometimes it …
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 …
Can Museums Help Make Cities More Intelligent?

By Elizabeth Merritt

“Smart cities” is a big topic now. How big? Smart Planet recently reported that investment in smart city infrastructure will hit $108 billion by 2020. Yah, that’s big. What makes a city “smart?” Smart Planet defines it as “the …
Mark Your Calenders: Twitter Chat About the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

As we explained in our last post, to kick off the project of forecasting the future of museum ethics we will be hosting a Twitter chat on June 15 at 4 p.m. (ET). Join the voice behind @futureofmuseums, Elizabeth Merritt to contribute ideas …
Museums & Wikipedia: The Future of Collaboration and Accessibility

By Elizabeth Merritt

Lori Byrd Phillips is a museum studies graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the current Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. She recently received a full scholarship …
Thoughts on the Digitization of Museum Collections

By Elizabeth Merritt

When The Pinky Show asked attendees of the 2010 AAM Annual Meeting what they thought about the digitization of museum collections, it was on no one’s radar that Google was planning to do exactly that with the Google Art Project. …
A Twebevent Wrap Up

By Elizabeth Merritt

Late last month, we ran the first of what will (hopefully) be many twebevents. With Cecilia Garibay and Lisa Sasaki joining Elizabeth Merritt and Phil Katz, we spent an hour on Twitter sharing information about demographics and museums, …
Flex your Twitter Muscles and Prep to Tackle the Diversity Challenge!

By Elizabeth Merritt

Are you psyched about this Thursday’s Diversity Twebevent? Betty Farrell, Cecilia Garibay and Lisa Sasaki, are primed and ready to tweet with you on Feb. 24, from 2–3 p.m. (ET), exploring how museums are tackling demographic change. Full …
Advice on the Strategic use of Twitter from a Master Tweeter—Neil Tyson

By Elizabeth Merritt

Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of AMNH’s Rose Center for Air and Space, is an astrophysics rock star. How many museumers get interviewed four times by Jon Stewart? In the first interview, Jon reveals he is a “big fan” of AMNH and the Hayden …