Social Justice
Links of the Week: January 31, 2025: The Year that Was, The Year that Is
Let's start off the year in links with a pile from last year.
Robert J Weisberg
Links of the Week: November 26, 2024: Looking Back to Look Ahead, Post-Election Edition
What's keeping us from learning anything from recent events?
Robert J Weisberg
After the App Is Gone: Museum-Field Conversation Post Bird
Museum professionals are despairing about conversations without a certain social media platform. But is the issue bigger than just one app?
Robert J Weisberg
In Search of the Counterintuitive: A Review of At Work in the Ruins and Museum Magazine's Issue on Convergence
Do we need more of the unexpected and surprising in our polarized world?
Robert J Weisberg
A Review of Bootstrapped and a Webinar on Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits
Organizations too often believe the twin myths of individual self-reliance and worker disempowerment.
Robert J Weisberg
Links of the Week: June 28, 2024: Project Manage This
Museums are ignoring the need for skills and culture as they rush towards a future they define in strategic plans.
Robert J Weisberg
The Trust Problem for Museums Doesn't Start with the Public
Museums say they're among the most trusted institutions in society. What happens when that isn't the case internally?
Robert J Weisberg
The Mindset to Matter: A Review of Why Museums Matter and Videogames and the Public Museum
Are museum leaders and workers speaking languages too different for institutions to thrive?
Robert J Weisberg
How Can Different Groups in the Museum Agree on Impact?
Museums—and their departments and workers—are increasingly concerned about impact beyond the institution. But can museums have impact externally when they may not agree on just what it means—or how to get there—internally?
Robert J Weisberg
The Story of Technological Progress is Not a Given: A Review of Power and Progress
The cultural sector has to change its ideas about progress and technology.
Robert J Weisberg
Tough Love for the DEI Industry: A Review of DEI Deconstructed
A 2022 book has a damning analysis of why DEI hasn't worked so far—and how understanding org culture better is the first step to real change.
Robert J Weisberg
Links of the Week: December 15, 2023: Collapsagideon Time
Is there room for different approaches to—or even understandings of—societal collapse?
Robert J Weisberg
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.
Robert J Weisberg
A Museum Human Manifesto
Manifestos aren't just for rebellions (or maybe they are).
Robert J Weisberg
Links of the Week: August 4, 2023: The Belonging Museum
Adding belonging to DEIA is a first step, but transformation runs deeper.