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.
Links of the Week: June 3, 2021: Museums, Docs, and AI
Museums are reopening, but are they ready for tough questions about purpose, membership, and AI?
Can Internal Competition Make for Better Museums?
A new wave of corporate entities are functioning like internal markets. Could it work for museums?
Links of the Week: May 27, 2021: Get Back …
Museums, like many institutions, are pushing for remote workers to come back to the workplace. Why … and how?
Museum digital for the rest of us
Has org culture in museums caught up to everything that "digital" can mean?
Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …
A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.
TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 4: Resources
This four-part series ends with Resources—can museums move past scarcity to abundance for their workers and orgs?
TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 3: People
A four-part series continues with the place of people in the museum field. It's not as obvious as you think.
Links of the Week: May 6, 2021: Hybrid Theory
It's time to tackle hybrid work in museums. At least museums are skilled at quick problem solving, right?
TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 2: Money
A four-part series continues with the relationship of museum workers and their institutions to money and value.
Links of the Week: April 29, 2021: Curiosity and Capitalism
Curiosity is one of the most important traits to encourage—and it may be the key to anticapitalism in our museum org culture.
TMPR: A New Acronym for Museum Workers (Part 1: Time)
The first in a series of four posts about Time, Money, People, and Resources in museum work and in museum workers' lives.
Links of the Week: April 22, 2021: What's Really Tiring …
After the Minneapolis guilty verdicts earlier this week, here are some links about exhaustion.
Museum Org Culture Is Causing a Mental Health Crisis
Museums make mental health resources available to workers but ignore how their own org culture contributes to the problem.