The HRC Web site, that's who!And what a year it has been: 85 posts, nearly 8,400 visits to the HRC Web site, and just under 23,000 total HRC Web pages viewed.210 people have signed up to receive the monthly HRC Spotlight e-newsletter, 136 people have become facebook fans of the CHC Heritage Resource Center, and 88 people receive weekly feedburner e-mail updates.Here are just a few highlights:With 218 unique page views, David Rau's exploration of...
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The HRC thanks Sarah Griswold for serving as guest author for the following entry. Sarah has been working in the museum field for nearly 20 years as a curator and director. She is currently an independent consultant and is working at the Gunn Memorial Museum in Washington as curatorial assistant. Sarah is part of the Connecticut Peer Advisor Network through the Connecticut Commission of Culture and Tourism and is a consulting principal for Ericson Business...
Looking for guidance on all sorts of management and funding issues? If you have not discovered the Qm2 website (and I don't mean the luxury liner) you should take a look at Qm2.org. Qm2 is a group of consultants who don't share an office, but share a mission to help nonprofit organizations, particularly museums and cultural groups, build successful futures by implementing powerful concepts of learning, leadership, management, and design. Although they each operate their...
What if there was a way to secure a seasoned professional to support the goals, needs and important plans of your organization or emerging group?What if that help, designed with your input, resulted in improved competencies and expanded relationships that could assist your organization going forward?And what if your commitment to a focused process, benefitting from thoughtful outside viewpoints, left an afterglow of generosity and good will? Welcome to the Peer Advisor Network (PAN), a...
Museums should serve a social purpose as they are products of the society that support them.Robert R. Janes and Gerald T. Conaty used this premise to create Looking Reality in the Eye, a collection of case studies that explores how museums can move beyond education and entertainment to embrace new socially relevant missions.The idea for this book emerged from a panel presentation on museums and social responsibility at the annual meeting of the Canadian Museums...
