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Thinking about exhibits thoughts on museums, content, design, and why they matter [Ed Rodley]: Drinking About Museums: Boston! 7/23 @ Area 4, Cambridge

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 16:44:45 -0400

Hey kids!

Mattress Factory: COMMUNITY ART LABS: WHAT THE KIDS HAVE TO SAY

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:56:01 -0400

For the past two weeks an enthusiastic bunch of students have taken up their own artist residence at the Mattress Factory for Community Art Labs.

Hanging Together (RLG): Past Forward: One Library

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:03:20 -0400

This is the first in a series on the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Past Forward.

Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Futurist Friday: Nonprofit Apartheid and the Overhead Myth

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:00:00 -0400

I posted some brief musings this past Monday about the blurring boundaries between nonprofit and for profit options for young professionals seeking to do good in their careers.

The Doofer Call [Jeremy Ottevanger]: The wrap

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:12:47 -0400

So, it's over. The PhD. Having first submitted the thesis in November... been examined in March, done my amendments (thereby adding another 150 pages...) and made my final submission at the end...

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Digital Media and Learning: What "Teaching Computers" Can Tell Us about Teaching Digital Culture

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:15:10 -0400

John Jones

powerhouse museum - fresh+new - seb chan: More non-linear narratives, museums & immersive theatre: Then She Fell

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:33:10 -0400

I’m just back from another immersive theatre instalment.

Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Exploring the Edge of Innovation in Seattle

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:00:00 -0400

The Call for Proposals for the Alliance annual meeting is now open.

Museum 2.0 [Nina Simon]: Hack the Museum Camp Part 2: Making Magic, Reality TV, and Risk as a Red Herring

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:17:00 -0400

We did it.

electronic museum - mike ellis: New tune – Seascape

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:21:29 -0400

Inspired by the beautiful flat seas round here at the moment.

Written and produced on the amazing NanoStudio.

Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Kickstarting a New Museum: MOFAD

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:00:00 -0400

How can a museum fully integrate food into the whole museum experience—not just the cafeteria or restaurant, but collections, exhibits and programming as well? How would a museum designed, from scratch, around food differ from a traditional museum?

Digital Media and Learning: The Trouble with Testing

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:10:08 -0400

Monica Bulger

Mattress Factory: FEMINIST AND . . . IN RETROSPECT

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:05:22 -0400

During the last week of the installation, Feminist And..., we detailed our intern Matthew Liner to document some of the works for our blog. Matthew dug deep and spent time in each of the spaces to share them in his own words.

Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Monday Musing: On Blurring Boundaries

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:18:00 -0400

Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response.
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Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Monday Musing: On Burring Boundaries

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:18:00 -0400
Monday musings are my way of sharing brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response.
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Thinking about exhibits thoughts on museums, content, design, and why they matter [Ed Rodley]: Ice Cube & AFP: What makes for successful narrators?

Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:00:00 -0400

We’re getting ready to host LACMA’s California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
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open objects - mia ridge: Planes, trains and automobiles...

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 13:23:12 -0400
This week I'm heading to Lincoln, Nebraska for Digital Humanities 2013 (abstracts) (where I'm also doing a half-day workshop on 'Designing successful digital humanities crowdsourcing projects' and attending my first meeti
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Hanging Together (RLG): Visualizing Network Flows: Library Inter-lending

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 20:31:24 -0400

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Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Futurist Friday: Summer Reading

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:20:00 -0400
Here's what I have stacked on my nightstand. With a month or two lull from work travel, I might actually make it through these before the museum conference schedule revs up in the fall.
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Digital Media and Learning: Both Sides of the Screen: Museums Seeking Balance in a Digital Age

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:30:14 -0400

Barry Joseph

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open objects - mia ridge: DHOxSS: 'From broadcast to collaboration: the challenges of public engagement in museums'

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:56:07 -0400
I'm just back from giving at a lightning talk for the Cultural Connections strand of the Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2013, and since the projector wasn't working to show my examples during my talk I thought I'd shar
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Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: Balancing the Equation

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:00:00 -0400

I had the pleasure, last month, of addressing attendees at the League of American Orchestra’s conference in St. Louis.
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electronic museum - mike ellis: Freelance tips, two years in

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 06:30:54 -0400

So we’re just signing off our accounts for the second year of Thirty8 Digital (crazy business: two years? Where the hell did that go?). Things have been brilliant so far ~clutches hard at large piece of wood~ and I wouldn’t now do anything apart from work for myself.
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Mattress Factory: Jene Highstein, 1942 - 2013

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:24:11 -0400

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Mattress Factory: 2013 URBAN GARDEN PARTY WRAP-UP

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:23:40 -0400

2013 URBAN GARDEN PARTY
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Mattress Factory: Soul Factory: Motown at the Museum -- A HUGE success!

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:23:17 -0400

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Mattress Factory: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS: WORKING "AS AN ARTIST"

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:22:26 -0400
As we discovered in our last post from the MF Archives, James Turrell's 1983 exhibition at the Mattress Factory marked a significant turning point for the museum, which until then had only exhibited works by local artists. Though the museum's exhibition program has grown to include works by artists from over 25 countries, many aspects of the early life of the Mattress Factory remain unchanged.
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Museum 2.0 [Nina Simon]: Hack the Museum Camp: Making Space for Creative, Generous Risk-Taking

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:00:00 -0400

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Center for the Future of Museums [AAM]: The Class System of the Future

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:00:00 -0400

In creating their scanning frameworks, many of the “test pilots” in the first flight of CFM’s Digital Badging Projects identified “wealth inequality,” “wealth gap” and other variations on these terms as being issues worth
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Hanging Together (RLG): User studies and risks for research libraries?

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:39:28 -0400

This is the first in a series of posts that synthesize conclusions of published user studies about desires and needs for research support. I’ve collected quite a stack of them. For the past three years I’ve been reading up on what academics themselves say about all this. Along the way, I’ve also gathered studies that include administrators and librarians.
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