http://museumblogging.com Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:58:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A decade ago, between stints in grad school, I worked in marketing for the Long Beach Symphony Association.  It was an exciting year; the orchestra was seeking a new conductor, and in the organization used the transition as an excuse to revisit its subscription packages.  Previously, the house pricing map ... http://museumblogging.com/2010/01/14/whats-your-museums-cello-side/ This long post--so long that you might want to print it out and take it with you--draws on research I undertook a few years back in 2002.  A shorter version of this post is available at the WestMuse blog. For the purposes of the paper I was writing, I interviewed ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/11/19/girls-and-science-centers/ I just realized I neglected to point out I wrote a post a few months back for the Western Museums Association blog on "More Thoughtful Learning: How Professional Development Through Social Media Can Strengthen Cultural Institutions." I think it's one of the better posts I've written in a while, ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/10/29/museum-professional-development-through-social-media/ I wrote this post for a more general audience at BlogHer, but the post ended up including a nice round-up of links, so I'm sharing it here as well, along with a couple of provocative questions near the end of the post. Late last year, the American Association of Museums ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/07/30/what-will-the-museum-of-the-future-look-like/ (Cross-posted at BlogHer) Think back to a time when you took a risk that succeeded. Now reflect on a time when you tried something and it bombed. What did you or others do differently in the first instance and the second? How did you recover from your failure ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/06/04/taking-risks-in-museums/ Note: This is a revision of an earlier version of this post. As an adjunct professor in John F. Kennedy University's graduate program in museum studies, professional development is frequently at the front of my mind. By "professional development," I mean helping students and emerging museum professionals become more thoughtful museum thinkers ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/05/04/professional-development-in-museums/ (Cross-posted at BlogHer) Those of you who know me well know that my husband is an all-around, old-time, self-described "newspaperman."  He's done writing, editing, photography, graphic design, web design, telepimping (coordinating a newspaper's classified-ad and voicemail-based dating service), and anything having to do with "putting the paper to bed"—that is, getting ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/04/02/what-can-museums-learn-from-the-decline-of-american-newspapers/ I went to the California Academy of Sciences one evening during the California Association of Museums conference, and as I was downloading the photos from the visit I was picking through The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt. The two streams began to merge for me, and I excerpted these fragments ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/04/01/amy-clampitt-meets-cal-academy/ (Cross-posted at BlogHer) Last week the "digilluminati" gathered in Washington, D.C. for an invitation-only gathering of minds dubbed "Smithsonian 2.0." If you think the word "museum" denotes an institution that concerns itself only with the past, you're in for a pleasant surprise because many museums the world over have been ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/02/05/smithsonian-20/ I've become quite enchanted lately with the tweets of many of the museums and related institutions I follow on Twitter. I'm a sucker for a link to a picture or video of a baby animal, even if it is an amorphous little shark pup. That said, I've noted ... http://museumblogging.com/2009/01/17/dangerous-travelogues/