14 November 2023

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

31 October 2023

People's Goals and Progress Space—A Chat with Kyle Bowen of Museums As Progress

Instead of obsessing about institutional growth, museums should think more about people's progress.

03 October 2023

Museum Luddites Unite?

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

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?

08 August 2023

Storytelling with Clarity and Confidence: an Interview with Abhay Adhikari

An open-minded and multi-disciplinary approach is making Digital Identities more than just technology.

16 May 2023

Making Sustainability Sustainable for Museums: an Interview with Caitlin Southwick

Sustainability for museums is a cross-disciplinary mindset.

18 April 2023

Shrug Culture: Innovation, Help, and Sharing in Museums

All too often, one worker's innovation is another worker's meh.

07 June 2022

The Other Side of Rogue in Museum Org Culture

Can museum workers respectfully and humanely balance accountability and experimentation?

10 May 2022

The Genius Delusion in Museum Work

Like most sectors, museums are in search of geniuses. But is that just the same old idolatry?

02 November 2021

Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)

Can museum workers really down bring their own system?

20 May 2021

Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …

A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.

06 May 2020

The Museum at the End of the World: "I Didn't Mean It Literally" Edition

What should museums do in the apocalypse? Stop talking about leadership, realism, and the new normal, to start.