07 March 2023

AI, ChatGPT, and Museum Work

The questions for museum workers about AI shouldn't be what to use it for, but who will use it and why.

03 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 3, 2023: Minding the Gaps

Sometimes it's what's missing that defines our workplaces.

10 February 2023

Links of the Week: February 10, 2023: Tech and friends

Tech was supposed to make the world safe for everything, but it's mostly been good for corporate profits so far.

07 September 2022

September Opener: What Does Digital Mean to Museums?

Museums' issues with digital and technology reflect a greater struggle for identity and meaning.

26 April 2022

The Trouble with Defining "Digital Transformation" in Museums

Everyone talks about digital transformation, but no one can define it.

02 November 2021

Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)

Can museum workers really down bring their own system?

19 October 2021

Personality Types, Personas, and Uncertainty in Museum Work

Personality tests and personas come from the same organizational obsession with absolute certainty.

12 October 2021

The Tech-Driven Cult of the Individual Harms Museum Workers' Mental Health

Personalized tech was supposed to help mental health issues in museums. What happened?

10 August 2021

Automation and Museum Work, Part I: The Search

Automation in museum work is a search—but are we looking for efficiency or humanity?

13 July 2021

The NFT Conundrum for Museums

Can museums resist the latest get-rich-quick-(by-making-others-poor) scheme?

25 May 2021

Museum digital for the rest of us

Has org culture in museums caught up to everything that "digital" can mean?

01 December 2020

Museums Must Pivot Back to People

Museums have been pivoting to post-normal workplaces. What else are they pivoting to?

17 November 2020

Strategy for the Rest of Us

Thoughts from the first of two weeks of the Museum Computer Network's virtual 2020 conference

26 September 2016

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?

07 September 2016

Mission Driven on a Capitalist Superhighway

Will museums always be monetizing from here on out?