I posted a few months ago about the Qm2 Museum Directors roundtable, run by John and Anita Durel, which I have been attending this year. One intriguing take-away from our last meeting was John's thoughts on strategic planning. He believes that knowing how to think strategically and act strategically is more important than simply having a strategic plan. And that the primary purpose of creating a plan in the first place is to teach your...
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Looking for a national forum where history lovers can meet to discuss the topics and challenges they face every day? A place where history museum and historical society employees and board members can go to ask questions and get answers from colleagues? If so, check out the American Association for State and Local History's (AASLH) new online communities. Two online communities are currently live: History News: AASLH's first online community focuses on their quarterly print...
The HRC thanks Laura Casey for serving as a guest author for the following entry. Laura has worked in the museum field for fifteen years. She is currently Coordinator of the Museum Services Program at the Texas Historical Commission. Before joining the Historical Commission in 2004, she was the director of museums in Illinois and Kansas. Ten years ago I never dreamed of the Internet serving as a repository for instructional movies for museums....
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...
The stock market has started to rise. Unemployment figures are dropping. Think the worst of The Great Recession has already happened for non-profits?Think again.While signs indicate that the economy has begun to stabilize, the prospects for the non-profit community remain bleak reports Sandra Wood in a study commissioned by the Connecticut Humanities Council titled "Philanthropic Funding Realities in the New Economy: An Assessment of Funding Opportunities and Challenges in 2010."Wood's report looks at the global...
