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Blow Up Your Digital Strategy: Changing the Conversation about Museums and Technology

rjstein — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:30:24 +0000

MW2012

Robert Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA

Abstract

How much storage will your museum need in the next five years? What is the best way to leverage electronic media and social networks to engage new museum audiences? When should we invest in a new online collection or a new website? These questions and many more plague museum technology professionals who are struggling to justify the investments in technology and staff that leverage these tools for the best purposes of the museum. The creation of Digital Strategy documents for museums seems to be a common approach to addressing these concerns, attempting to insert thoughtful planning and strategic thinking about technology into the conversation at a senior management level. While it’s hard to argue with the logic of developing a step-by-step plan for technology investment, is it possible that by ghettoizing technology strategy to a realm apart from the larger strategy of the museum, we will only succeed in highlighting the perceived gaps that exist between technology issues and those of real importance and permanence for the future of museums?

Keywords: digital strategy, technology strategy, museum administration, professional development, mission, strategic planning, metrics

Program Item Reference:

Blow Up Your Digital Strategy: Changing the Conversation about Museums and Technology

First Impressions

bwyman — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:53:07 +0000

MW2011

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professional development

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change

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job market

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employment

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institutional culture

Abstract:

We will bring together museum technology professionals who have made a job change since the MW community last gathered in April 2010. In a lively roundtable discussion, the group will offer first impressions of their new posts; consider how leaving one job and starting another may have influenced their thinking about their former positions; and discuss the different ways in which technology, change, innovation, and collaboration are approached in their past and present worlds. Participants will offer their thoughts on the interview and hiring process and examine the ways in which it forced them to characterize and communicate their talents, skills, history, goals, and outlooks. Though the session will provide a fun peek at the experiences of friends and colleagues, it should also serve as a serious meditation on the nature of change in a fast-evolving job market and offer several useful case studies by peers who have recently chosen to pursue a new challenge.

Susan Chun will serve as session moderator; participants include Bruce Wyman (currently Director of Creative Development, Second Story Interactive Studios); Christina DePaolo (currently Director of New Media, Balboa Park Online Collaborative); Koven Smith (currently Director of Technology, Denver Art Museum); others are welcome to contribute.

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Other Interaction - describe in notes

Interaction – Thoughts on Encountering a New Organization

Authors:

Susan Chun

Bruce Wyman

Christina DePaolo

Koven Smith

Learning by Design: Teachers / Museums / Technology

jtrant — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:00:34 +0000

Trofanenko, B., & Korteweg L. (2002). Learning by Design: Teachers / Museums / Technology. (David Bearman, Trant, Jennifer, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2002: Proceedings.