Robert J Weisberg

I work on a bit of everything in museum content. I find human solutions to tech problems. I geek out on workflow. No, really. I learn and teach and write everything down.

13 October 2023

Links of the Week: October 13, 2023: The Business of AI

The business world can't stop thinking about AI. That's good for the hyperati, but what about the rest of us?

10 October 2023

The Personalization Dilemma and the AI Temptation for Museums

In aiming for personalized storytelling for every visitor, have museums created a task that only AI can possibly solve?

06 October 2023

Links of the Week: October 6, 2023: AI in the Workplace

AI is an embodiment of everything that's troublesome about workplace tech trends

03 October 2023

Museum Luddites Unite?

How does the lost history of the Luddites inform our debates about workplace AI?

29 September 2023

Links of the Week: September 29, 2023: Finding Abundance

Can we choose abundance amongst all the scarcity out there?

26 September 2023

Abundance and Scarcity in Museum Work

Is abundance the opposite of scarcity, or is a mindset of fullness a form of resistance?

22 September 2023

Links of the Week: September 22: How Virtual Are We Already?

The metaverse is just one way that museums are trying to expand audiences and knowledge of their collections.

19 September 2023

Is the Moment Right for a Museum Metaverse? An Interview with Annabell Vacano of Atopia

The metaverse may have been left behind by all the talk of AI, but agile start-ups have stepped in.

15 September 2023

Links of the Week: September 15, 2023: Autumn of our Innovation Discontent

Change is almost always defined by leaders—can we think bigger?

12 September 2023

Innovation, Engagement, Leadership, and Other Workplace Fails, part 2—One Way Out?

Can innovation be a joint, broad-based endeavor?

08 September 2023

Links of the Week: September 8, 2023: Fall Term Terminology

Innovation, leadership, and engagement need to be grounded in workplace reality in order to really improve.

05 September 2023

Innovation, Engagement, Leadership, and Other Workplace Fails, part 1

Is there something wrong with the idea of always innovating?

01 September 2023

Links of the Week: September 1, 2023: Clicking on Remote Work

Clickbait headlines about "the end of remote work" are as unhelpful as those about quiet quitting.

29 August 2023

The Eternal Clickbait of the Remote/Hybrid Workplace

Sometimes a debate swamps the actual issue. Remote/hybrid work is one of those times.

25 August 2023

Links of the Week: August 25, 2023: Manifestos R Us

Manifestos may be about many things, but they all have a way of contemplating our entire civilization.