From the monthly archives: September 2010

Questions you hope no one will ask

by David Grabitske on September 29, 2010 · No Comments · in Interpretation

This was a session at the AASLH Conference in Oklahoma City last week. The point was that the emotionally charged questions and those questions that require a complex, nuanced answer are precisely the kinds of questions that bring people to visit historical organizations. Although these may make tour guides cringe, these kinds of questions bring [...]

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Social media/Web Guidelines and Strategy Worksheets

by Joe Hoover on September 10, 2010 · 2 Comments · in Advice, Blog, Information Technology, Local History Standards, Marketing, Social Media

As social media tools are becoming increasingly commonplace and valuable to historical organizations and museums it is important to keep the communication appropriate, relevant and inline with the organization’s mission, which is why it is important to have a strategy before going in and to have guidelines on how to best interact when there. The [...]

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Just what is a Mobile Museum?

by Joe Hoover on September 8, 2010 · 3 Comments · in Information Technology, Museums

Some words about “mobile”… “Mobile Museum” is as widely talked about now days as it is widely misunderstood. Museums talk about mobile tours but without little clarification of just what mobile means.  Organizations stumble headlong into the world of mobile and others wish and plan to do so, and as the old saying goes – [...]

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