Can Museums Listen to Responsiveness?
Museums are paying more attention to their workplace practices. Can "responsiveness" succeed where "employee engagement" hasn't?
Robert J Weisberg
The Connection of Museums, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Though Samantha is guiding the creation of amazing gallery experiences and I’m obsessing on organizational change from within museums, it turned out that we had a lot of concerns in common.
Autumn is Coming
Between my conference workand the non-stop slow apocalypse we find ourselves in, it never felt like the right time to write about museums as workplaces or museums and organizational culture.
This is How We Blog in the Museum Field
A new book featuring blogs from museum professionals is a testament to the challenges facing our sector—and the great number of awesome people working to solve them.
Games, Digital Pubs, and Voices: an Interview with Susan Edwards of the Hammer Museum
So many of us in the museum technology field are a multitude of different experiences and backgrounds. Susan Edwards fits that to a T.
Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste
Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?
Keeping Ourselves Real in Our Museum Work
The workplace psychology movement of the week is a call for authenticity. Do museums have a particular office honesty problem?
Metadata and the Museum Digital Dilemma
A series of blog posts from the Getty detail just how deeply digital practices have been woven into museum work. What will it take for museum professionals to keep up?
Top posts of 2016
2016 was a big year for writing on the museum field. Here's a rundown of my top 10 posts of 2016, ranked by pageviews.
A Year of Shattered Expectations
I started writing a year-end blog post several times, but it felt weird and delusional, like I was ignoring the approaching giant planet ready to destroy the Earth.