Technology Trends – Page 5 – American Alliance of Museums

Updates to CFM’s 2012 Trends to Watch

By Elizabeth Merritt

Our first annual summary of Dispatches from the Future of Museums—TrendsWatch 2012: Museums and the Pulse of the Future—is getting a lot of attention and commentary, which is great. But as soon as Phil Katz (my co-author) and I sent it to …
Report from #FutrChat

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last Thursday eighty-three futurists and museumers participated in #futrchat on Twitter, co-hosted by the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and CFM. The tweets flew fast and furious (over 600 of them!) as our sectors exchanged …
Futurist Friday: Short Glimpses

By Elizabeth Merritt

Two very brief videos to fuel your futures-thinking. Project Glass presents a first-person view of a future in which locality-aware data is continually streamed into your line of sight—from the time you wake up for your morning coffee …
Experience Design & the Future of Third Place

By Elizabeth Merritt

Today’s post is by futurist Garry Golden, who frequently collaborates with me on CFM projects. Garry is co-author of Tomorrow in the Golden State: Museums and the Future of California, and is currently the lead instructor for the …
Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

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

By Elizabeth Merritt

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

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …
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 …
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 …
Musarians: The bastard children of museums and libraries.

By Elizabeth Merritt

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 …