This Month I'll Be on Medium
For most of October 2016, my good friend Jennifer Foley, of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and I were exchanging letters on Medium about some contentious words in museum practice.
Art Book Digital Publishing: Hopelessly Lost, Making Excellent Time
Have we moved past the search for the one digital art book format to rule them all?
Mission Driven on a Capitalist Superhighway
Will museums always be monetizing from here on out?
Tag, You're It: Museums and the Internet of Stuff
The micro-location revolution promises more information for museums and their visitors than ever. But do we already have too much "stuff" in the museum? And how do we keep track of it all?
The Event Horizon of Digital Skills and Museum Staff
Museum workers need comprehensive digital skills that are fairly and equally distributed. Will we end up with digital haves and have-nots in the museum?
What We Talk about When We Talk about Silos
It turned out that our collective war on silos was a war on other people's silos.
Can Museums be "Developmental Organizations"?: An interview with Dara Blumenthal
Dara Blumenthal isn't just diagnosing process problems in today's workplaces. She discusses the very way in which people are viewed—and view themselves—at work and in society.
Text and the Future of Museum Content
Is anyone reading museum wall labels—and if so, retaining what they're reading—any more?
Just what are we trying to "disrupt" anyway?
So we're all supposed to disrupt something, that much is clear. Just what that thing is, isn't clear, but it's not supposed to matter. And what does this mean for museums?
How much organizational risk can a museum take?
We all want our museums to be more innovative, free-flowing, unstructured … right?
Can Medium be a message for museums?
Can cultural institutions afford the money and time to try to make long-form reading—on someone else's platform—work?
Discuss: Deep Learning, AI, and Museums (4/8/16)
The latest on Deep Learning, AI, and what it all means for museums.