17 December 2021

Links of the Week: December 17, 2021: Everything Must Go, part 3

Museum Human finishes the year with links about hybrid work, tech, NFTs, and capitalism.

22 October 2021

Links of the Week: October 22, 2021: Tech in the Middle

The end of the calendar year often feels like the time for tech talk.

17 August 2021

Automation and museum work, part II: the museum metaverse

Is there another reality where museum workers can leave bad org culture behind?

22 July 2021

Links of the Week: July 22, 2021: Tech Race to Space

Are museum workers really waiting on spacefaring tech billionaires to save us?

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?

22 April 2021

Links of the Week: April 22, 2021: What's Really Tiring …

After the Minneapolis guilty verdicts earlier this week, here are some links about exhaustion.

19 January 2021

Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?

Is a deal with sinister forces necessary for museum people to get their work done?

01 December 2020

Museums Must Pivot Back to People

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

30 June 2019

Who Decides Who Gets to "Fix" Tech?

Technologists, especially some who were responsible for the rise of surveillance capitalist behemoths, are declaring technology broken and proposing humanist solutions. What could be wrong with that? And what does this mean for museums?

06 September 2017

The Connection of Museums, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

Though Samantha is guiding the creation of amazing gallery experiences and I’m obsessing on organizational change from within museums, it turned out that we had a lot of concerns in common.

16 August 2016

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?

03 August 2016

What We in Museums Talk about When We Talk about Diversity

Are museums ready for what a real commitment to diversity will entail?

05 April 2016

Links of the Week (4/6/16)

Those of us in nonprofits and/or cultural institutions groan/roll eyes at the idea of a "personal brand," but what's so wrong about having an idea of yourself and where you want to be?

27 March 2016

Just How Different a Workplace is a Museum?

Can evolving workplace practices in the business world be applied to mission-driven non-profits like museums?