Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter . If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context...

I hope you are enjoying end-of-year festivities. For those of you who are interested, my husband and I chose to crowdsource our future with...

$5.33. $40.21. $12.74. Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. It's very simple to calculate: you take the to...

I've been thinking about online dating recently. No, not because my partner refuses to wash his hair. Online dating sites have two ver...

This guest post was written by Georgina Bath Goodlander, the Interpretative Programs Manger for the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsoni...

There's a lot of great stuff flooding my inbox these days. Here's what I'm most excited about right now. Keep 'em coming, ...

Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections . Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up ...

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. It's a bit strange. Why not ask more...

Why do you care about and or work in museums? This post tells my (weird) story. I hope you'll share yours in the comments below (or on...

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation . The hi...