The Progress Report
A newsletter for museum professionals that’s serious about audience progress but playful about the process.
Contributors
- Alexa Magladry 1
- Aubrey Bergauer 1
- Ben Mosior 1
- Erin Milbeck Wilcox 2
- Isabel Singer 1
- Isabella Bruno 2
- Jennifer DePrizio 1
- Kelly Cannon 3
- Kimberlee Kiehl 1
- Krista Dahl Kusuma 1
- Kyle Bowen 159
- Lynda Kelly 1
- Nameiko Miller 1
- Rachel Ropeik 1
- Randi Korn 1
- Rebekah Harding 1
- Robert Weisberg 1
- Rosie Siemer 11
- Ruth Hartt 1
- Steve Boyd-Smith 1
- Susan Hawksworth 2
What is progress-space research?
Why evaluation alone can’t address the challenges museums face today.
Anatomy of reader survey
This year’s survey comes with an incentive and a whole lot of inner thinking.
A simpler (but not easy) way to define "community" and communities
Last week, I spoke with participants in the MUSEUMS AND CHANGE series about “borrowed frames”. The gist of my talk was that museums can define communities in terms of people’s goals rather than demographics, psychographics, or org-centric models like Falk’s visitor typologies.
The discussion after the presentation was interesting because one question or sticking point that featured prominently was: What do we mean by “Community”?
Why take turns when you can take power?
Lessons from a poltergeist on the art of turn-taking.
Disney’s illustrations of coherent action
Is there a mouse trap in your museum’s strategic map?
People’s goals don’t change. Museums do.
Do people’s goals change quickly? Or is it that the solutions available to them to address those goals change?