Robert J Weisberg

I work on a bit of everything in museum content. I find human solutions to tech problems. I geek out on workflow. No, really. I learn and teach and write everything down.

Are We Listening? Review of The Persuaders, Part 1

A new book calls out callout culture, but does it practice the deep listening it advocates?

Links of the Week: February 10, 2023: Tech and friends

Tech was supposed to make the world safe for everything, but it's mostly been good for corporate profits so far.

The Great/Quiet/Remote Workplace Feedback Loop

The Great Resignation and quiet quitting feed on each other. It all starts with remote/hybrid work practices.

Links of the Week: February 3, 2023: One Month In

Do museum workers pay enough attention to goals, planning, and trends?

Can Museums Respond to the Remote/Hybrid Challenge?

If resigning is Great and quitting is Quiet, what does that make remote and hybrid work?

Links of the Week: January 27, 2023: Rights and Royalties

You can tell a lot about a society by what it values.

Quiet Quitting in Museums is More than Just Taking It Easy

Quiet quitting is a journey of worker self-worth and one that museums have to take very seriously.

Links of the Week: January 20, 2023: Ready to Learn?

Can organizations learn how to be better throughout?

The Resignation Might Be Great, but is It Real?

How the Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, and Hybrid/Remote work interrelate

Links of the Week: January 13, 2023: All the Pretty Trojan Horses

We laugh off some spectacles and collapses to our peril

What I've Been Reading, Watching, and Listening to Lately

These media have a lot of messages

Links of the Week: January 6, 2023: R U (Still) Masking?

The new year starts with a lot of links but a lot less masking …

Returning with the New Year (and the Same Old Concerns)

After a long Museum Human break, I'm considering some major changes for the site in 2023

The People of Museum Tech Tell Their Stories

The history of museum technology is made up of many stories—two museum pros let museum workers tell them.

Links of the Week: September 16, 2022: The Museum Multiverse

Tech isn't helping museums' problems with alternate realities.