Congratulations to our colleagues in California, Nevada, and Washington who earned recognition for their outstanding achievements in museum media at AAM's 2010 Muse Awards last night.
The Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA) won the top award in the Public Relations and Development category for Raising Spirits.
"Raising Spirits takes our world-renowned collection "on the road" via a plasma...
Conferences
This year at AAM the Western Museums Association has a lot to celebrate: AAM is in our region; we have a new look, we are in the midst of planning two awesome conferences--2010 in Portland and 2011 in Honolulu--and it is our 75th anniversary! So come help us celebrate; we have fun give-aways and treats, you can learn more about our upcoming conferences, nominate someone for an award, learn about...
Colleagues –
In these difficult times, we're often overwhelmed by challenges just to keep our institutions healthy. Most of us are working harder than ever in our jobs. So, it's easy to lose sight of the truly wonderful things museums and the people in them do.
At the Western Museums Association Annual Meeting we intend to rectify that. Beyond our continuing education and networking, the...
In these difficult times, we're often overwhelmed by challenges just to keep our institutions healthy. Most of us are working harder than ever in our jobs. So, it's easy to lose sight of the truly wonderful things museums and the people in them do.
At the Western Museums Association Annual Meeting we intend to rectify that. Beyond our continuing education and networking, the...
By James G. Leventhal
In its inimitable first-class volunteer fashion...and to celebrate the blogsite westmuse's first year birthday, the Western Museums Association has a new look!
Oo, you gotta love a "new look and feel." Here's a big thank you to the logo's designer Nicole Trudeau. Trudeau has also designed the forthcoming 75th Anniversary program for Portland.
California Video at the Getty...
In its inimitable first-class volunteer fashion...and to celebrate the blogsite westmuse's first year birthday, the Western Museums Association has a new look!
Oo, you gotta love a "new look and feel." Here's a big thank you to the logo's designer Nicole Trudeau. Trudeau has also designed the forthcoming 75th Anniversary program for Portland.
California Video at the Getty...
by Ted A. Greenberg
SILENT/LIVE AUCTION IS COMING!
How do you like to help your colleagues? What is a fun way to support learning for professionals? How do you or your museums like to participate at our annual meetings and know you are making a worthy donation? What is way to help support your travel and get to the annual meetings?
One way is the Wanda Chin Professional Development Support Fund...
SILENT/LIVE AUCTION IS COMING!
How do you like to help your colleagues? What is a fun way to support learning for professionals? How do you or your museums like to participate at our annual meetings and know you are making a worthy donation? What is way to help support your travel and get to the annual meetings?
One way is the Wanda Chin Professional Development Support Fund...
Posted by Kaia Landon Annual Conference June 2-5, 2010: Register Now to Save! Speaking up for Museums: Institutional Advocacy The 28th Annual Meeting of the Museum Association of Arizona Can you articulate why museums matter? Can you tell funders, visitors and associates how important your institution is to your community? Can you share a personal story about how a museum impacted your life? Do...
By Lydia Johnson
I got an email from Stephanie Weaver last week:
Tech Talks are in! Monday, October 18 in Portland, Oregon.
Stephanie is coordinating The Tech Talks (formerly Tech Lab) at WMA's annual conference later this year, and asked me to participate. I live in Silicon Valley, so I see and hear about the cutting edge of technology every day. In fact, the business section in our local...
by Allyson Lazar
Can't make it to this year's AAM conference in Los Angeles? Never fear--this year AAM will also be hosting a virtual conference!
The two-day online conference will consist of nine sessions selected by the Standing Professional Committees (SPCs) on technology, couriering, visitor experience, planning, exhibition development and more!
But perhaps what is most exciting is that,...
Can't make it to this year's AAM conference in Los Angeles? Never fear--this year AAM will also be hosting a virtual conference!
The two-day online conference will consist of nine sessions selected by the Standing Professional Committees (SPCs) on technology, couriering, visitor experience, planning, exhibition development and more!
But perhaps what is most exciting is that,...
The Balboa Park Online Collaborative hosted a workshop on February 16 and 17, 2010 on mobile interpretive tools and strategy. Day Two on technology featured Titus Bicknell, Director of Information Technology for Experius Academy. You can find a detailed wiki page for this workshop here, including all of Nancy and Titus Bicknell's slides. See this post for Nancy Proctor's presentation and video...
The Balboa Park Online Collaborative hosted a workshop on February 16 and 17, 2010 on mobile interpretive tools and strategy. Day One featured Nancy Proctor, head of New Media for the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Nancy manages the Museum Mobile project, a blog and wiki for collaborative work on mobile interpretation in museums. You can find an exceedingly detailed wiki page for this workshop...
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