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For Profit for Good: The rise of the social entrepreneurs

By Elizabeth Merritt

For years, well-meaning critics have been telling nonprofits to act more like businesses: to do a better job marketing, to innovate, to develop a strong brand identity. It’s ven been suggested that nonprofits sometimes use their …
Hot, New Trends Deliberated in Wine Country

By Elizabeth Merritt

I hope you’ve had a chance to delve into TrendsWatch 2014 (now available as a free app, with embedded videos!) and are using the report to fuel discussions inside and outside your organization. This week’s blog post is by …
Throwback Thursday: TrendsWatches Past

By Elizabeth Merritt

As we have just released TrendsWatch 2014, the obvious candidates for this week’s Throwback are the posts in which I introduced the first two editions of the report. I hope you use this opportunity to become acquainted with or …
TrendsWatch 2014

By Elizabeth Merritt

Third time is charming, right? Hope so, as I’m very pleased to share with you CFM’s third annual forecasting report—TrendsWatch 2014. After posting printed headlines from a year’s worth of stories from Dispatches from the Future of Museums …
TrendsWatch Update: The Internet of Things

By Elizabeth Merritt

One of the trends we featured in TrendsWatch 2013 was “When Things Talk Back: the rise of networked objects and attentive spaces.” What could happen in a future where the “stuff” that surrounds you collects and shares information about …
Art Viewing and Mindfulness Meditation

By Elizabeth Merritt

Of the six trends we feature in TrendsWatch 2013, one that has generated the a lot of feedback so far is “Disconnecting to Reconnect”—our exploration of how people are going to great lengths to “unplug.” One of the people I connected with …
2014 TrendsWatch Contenders

By Elizabeth Merritt

With TrendsWatch 2013 hot off the digital presses, Phil and I are already scanning for early signals of the trends we will feature next year. When it comes to scanning, more eyes = better results! We are fortunate to have a growing cadre …
Keeping up with the 2013 Trends

By Elizabeth Merritt

I hope you’ve had a chance to download TrendsWatch 2013, which we released last month. Phil Katz and I did a Town Hall webcast last week, presenting a brief overview of the report–you can access a recording of that event here.I …
CFM Returns to the Future with TrendsWatch 2013

By Elizabeth Merritt

The Alliance has just released TrendsWatch 2013: Back to the Future, CFM’s second annual watch list of important emergent trends. If we’re right, and the trends we’ve tagged this year shape the evolution of museums, a museum visit in the …
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 …