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Museum 2.0 Rerun: The Magic Vest Phenomenon and Other Tools for Talking to Strangers 21 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 blog posts from the past. This post was requested by a long-time reader. Every time one of my staff members dons his or her cape for a progra...
Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists 14 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 author's desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story te...
Museum 2.0 Rerun: I Am An Elitist Jerk 7 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 blog posts from the past. This is a personal and crowd favorite--and one of the scariest posts I ever wrote. Originally posted five years ago...
Why I Blog 31 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 vaults that will commence next week. It feels like a real gift to myself (...
Come Work With Us at MAH as School Programs Coordinator 23 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
I know, I know. Any job with the word “coordinator” in it sounds like you might spend your time sorting socks into pairs. But this job is really important to the future of our museum, and I’m hoping t...
Hack the Museum Camp Part 2: Making Magic, Reality TV, and Risk as a Red Herring 17 Jul 2013 | 09:19 pm
We did it. Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp, a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripe...
Hack the Museum Camp: Making Space for Creative, Generous Risk-Taking 10 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Here in Santa Cruz, we're brushing off our tents and lining up the counselor whistles for Hack the Museum Camp, a 2.5 day adventure that starts today. We have 75 campers here from around the world who...
Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me 3 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Over the past year, I've had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Services like Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram are growing at incredible rates, espec...
One Small Step for Detroit, One Giant Leap for Museum Ethics (Maybe) 26 Jun 2013 | 09:38 pm
Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. Last year, the DIA was saved from financial crisis b...
Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal 19 Jun 2013 | 10:40 pm
When I was in college, I spent almost all of my free time in the slam poetry scene. A few years and a few hundred open mics into that experience, it became obvious that some venues fostered amazing po...
