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David Bloom

When 'Liking' a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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CAMLF social media legal rights liking

shared by David Bloom on 18 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights?General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, “join” it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways.
  • David Bloom on 18 Apr 14
     
    All I can say is, Wow!  This is the sort of thing that could have wide-ranging ramifications, and i suspect that museums will, one day, have to decide which legal direction they will head.  Could buying a membership at a museum exempt the member from legal protections?
Ariane Karakalos

The Cost of "Free": Admission Fees at American Art Museums - 0 views

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free admission access

shared by Ariane Karakalos on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Museum theorists such as Elaine Heumann Gurian point out that admission fees may be the single biggest obstacle preventing museums from fulfilling their missions as educational institutions that are open and accessible to the widest range of visitors from all income levels and backgrounds. But is the financial position of most art museums so precarious that the 5 percent of operating budget provided by admissions fees is indispensable to the survival of the institution? Is there a middle ground between free admission and a standard entrance fee?
  • Potential visitors—especially families with children—are often concerned about the financial costs associated with a museum visit, such as transportation, parking and lunch. As the costs have risen, visitors expect greater value for their admission dollars.
  • Many of us have visited museums and seen the words “suggested donation” or “recommended amount” next to the admission fees. The actual amount collected per visitor is often significantly lower than the suggested amount
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  • he Art Institute of Chicago switched from free Tuesdays to free Thursday evenings, from 5-8 p.m.
  • At the time of this writing, there is not much more than anecdotal evidence available on the desired result of racially and ethnically diverse visitors during free evening hours, but the Art Institute of Chicago has every reason to believe its change in free hours achieved this. “We had Chicagoans in the museum who reported that it was their first-ever visit,” Lee said. “We had parents telling us that they were grateful that the free hours allowed them to easily bring their children after work. We had more visitors per free hour than we did when the free hours were on Tuesdays.
  • the competing priorities of ideology, practicality and economics. By designating periods of free admission to attract the infrequent visitor, museums can more easily justify charging an entrance fee on a regular basis
  • Cool Culture, an inventive nonprofit formed in 1999, has created a family pass to 71 cultural institutions in New York City. The pass is intended for low-income families, and the program’s primary clients are Head Start and other subsidized child-care centers. Two-thirds of participants have household incomes below the federal poverty line.
  • Although transportation is not provided, participants can visit at any time and return as many times as they wish.
  • Cool Culture’s success is in the numbers: Families who have the Cool Culture Pass are four times more likely to visit a museum than families without the pass, according to Linda Steele, executive director.    
  • one might logically conclude that museums with no admission fee will attract larger audiences and thus have a better chance at earning more revenue within the museum: more visitors, more sales in shops or restaurants. Upon closer scrutiny, this assumption may not be true.
  • museum visitors who did not pay an admission fee were likely to spend even less on additional goods or services than the average visitor who paid a fee to enter, even they were not museum members.
  • responses from museums of various sizes, settings and budgets. The most commonly mentioned benefits of free admission were service to the community and accessibility to a more diverse audience. Increased exposure, attendance and public relations opportunities also ranked high, as did improved opportunities for individual, corporate and foundation support. The primary drawbacks were lost revenue and the inability to build a membership base. Security concerns also figured prominently.
  • Do Not Touch” signs in art exhibitions. Of the 15 responding museums that offered limited free admission days or hours, more than half reported a significant difference in visitor demographics: seniors, large family groups, school groups, disabled persons and drug or alcohol recovery groups were most likely to attend at these times. Museums in Seattle, Scottsdale, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay area all reported an increase in student visitors on free admission days. Sue Cake, a longtime docent at the Oakland Museum of California, observed that free admission days enabled teachers to assign a museum visit as part of a class lesson, likely a factor for increased student visitation at many museums.
  • can discount or waive admission fees on a case-by-case basis. “The experience should have value like a movie, going out to eat, a concert or any other leisure-time activity,” said Deputy Director Amy Oppio. “It is . . . important for guests to believe in supporting the organization and its mission.” 
  • Not all respondents shared Oppio’s view. One of the survey questions asked about the ideal admission fee structure. Of the 24 museums that responded to this question, 30 percent said that free admission is the way to go. Midge Bowman, executive director of the Frye Art Museum, responded that art museums “should be free as public libraries are. Without this open admission, they remain elitist institutions.”
  • ents we write and the act of imposing an entry fee,” she wrote. “Museums, if they remain oriented toward their paying customers will not . . . feel motivated to become essential elements within the community and an important educational resource for all individuals wishing to learn.”
Karen Wade

Google Glass sees all -- and that raises privacy concerns - latimes.com - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...glass-20130811,0,4556406.story

CAMLF Technology Museums

shared by Karen Wade on 12 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Karen Wade on 12 Aug 13
     
    Well, it looks like one more "invention from the future" is about to invade the market. Let's just hope Big Brother isn't watching. The real question however is how can something like Google Glasses be used by the museum field. Actually, the possibilities are endless.
Karen Wade

Adult females oust teenage boys as largest gaming demographic | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour - 0 views

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Demographics Technology Games

shared by Karen Wade on 21 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Karen Wade on 21 Aug 14
     
    Well, I must fess up that I'm one of those adult females pushing out those teenage boys. And, like the study, I only play on my iPhone and iPad. What does that say about our world today I wonder. ? Should we develop more humnities-oriented games for folks like me, or should I just decide to "get a life" and get off-line? Thoughs
Elizabeth Merritt

Majority of U.S. Workers Changing Jobs Are Seeing Real Wage Gains | Pew Research Center - 0 views

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wages Great Resignation research TrendsWatch 2023

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 01 Aug 22 - No Cached
  • From April 2021 to March 2022, a period in which quit rates reached post-pandemic highs, the majority of workers switching jobs (60%) saw an increase in their real earnings over the same month the previous year.
  • 2.5% of workers – about 4 million – switched jobs on average each month from January to March 2022. This share translates into an annual turnover of 30% of workers – nearly 50 million – if it is assumed that no workers change jobs more than once a year. It is higher than in 2021, when 2.3% of workers switched employers each month, on average. About a third (34%) of workers who left a job from January to March 2022 – either voluntarily or involuntarily – were with a new employer the following month.
  • rom April 2020 to March 2021, some 51% of job switchers saw an increase in real earnings over the same months the previous year. On the other hand, among workers who did not change employers, the share reporting an increase in real earnings decreased from 54% over the 2020-21 period to 47% over the 2021-22 period. Put another way, the median worker who changed employers saw real gains in earnings in both periods, while the median worker who stayed in place saw a loss during the April 2021 to March 2022 period.
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  • A new Pew Research Center survey finds that about one-in-five workers (22%) say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months
  • those who describe their personal financial situation as only fair or poor are about twice as likely as those who say their finances are excellent or good to say they’d consider making a job change (29% vs. 15%).
  • About half of job switchers also change their industry or occupation in a typical month, but this share has not changed since 2019. Women who leave a job are more likely than men who leave a job to take a break from the labor force, and men with children at home are least likely to do the same.
Steve Windhager

The Case for Sustainable Landscapes_2009.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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CAMLF environment Sustainability

shared by Steve Windhager on 26 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Windhager on 26 Mar 12
     
    A little old as reports go, but this program will likely be as popular as LEED in the future in terms of how we design and assess our landscape design.
  • Steve Windhager on 26 Mar 12
     
    A little old as reports go, but this program will likely be as popular as LEED in the future in terms of how we design and assess our landscape design.
Johanna Fassbender

Free lecture series replaces inane bar conversations with stimulating talks | Springwise - 1 views

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CAMLF free lecture series third+space

shared by Johanna Fassbender on 10 Apr 14 - No Cached
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  • Johanna Fassbender on 10 Apr 14
     
    I would like to go!!!
  • Ruth Cuadra on 10 Apr 14
     
    Me too! I have never liked bars, but this might convince me to try a few.
Karen Wade

What shopping will look like in the future - 1 views

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Technology Retail

shared by Karen Wade on 28 May 14 - No Cached
  • Karen Wade on 28 May 14
     
    For one who finds shopping in stores a form of recreation, I hope the Brave New World of retail won't take away our real time fun (not that I don't spend tons of time already on retail sites, but I still like to go to the store and feel the merchandise). Trying on a top in a virtual dressing room just isn't the same as wearing it. Oh well, maybe I also will be able to virtually "feel" it-but. . .
Elizabeth Merritt

Quitting is just half the story: the truth behind the 'Great Resignation' | US unemploy... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...itting-us-unemployment-economy

Great Resignation

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 05 Jan 22 - No Cached
  • “quits”, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls them, hit a high in September, with over 4.3 million people leaving their jobs, and was followed by a modest reduction of that trend in October and November.
  • n Tuesday the labor department said there were 10.6m job openings at the end of November and 6.9 million unemployed people – 1.5 jobs per unemployed person. The number of quits hit a new high of 4.5m.
  • The top reasons cited by experts continue to be lack of adequate childcare and health concerns about Covid
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  • many quit in search of better work opportunities, self employment, or, simply, higher pay.
  • The recent trend towards higher pay exists in the context of decades of low-wage growth, as until recently, wages in the US had stagnated.
  • The current competitiveness of the labor market – at least the proportion that is driven by gap between the high demand for workers and the supply of those searching for work – might be temporary.
  • in September and October of this year, there were 1.4 million fewer mothers actively engaged with the labor force than those same months in 2019.
  • Mothers with college degrees and telework-compatible jobs were more likely to exit the labor force and more likely to be on leave than women without children. She also found that teachers are most likely to leave the labor force as compared to their counterparts in other industries.
Elizabeth Merritt

Mastodon Isn't Just A Replacement For Twitter - 1 views

www.noemamag.com/just-a-replacement-for-twitter

Mastodon fediverse

shared by Elizabeth Merritt on 08 Dec 22 - No Cached
  • We need to learn how to become more like engaged democratic citizens in the life of our networks.
  • he challenge and the opportunity of spaces like the fediverse is that it is up to us which rules we want to follow and how we make rules for ourselves.
  • We believe that it is time to embrace the old idea of subsidiarity, which dates back to early Calvinist theology and Catholic social teaching. The European Union’s founding documents use the term, too. It means that in a large and interconnected system, people in a local community should have the power to address their own problems. Some decisions are made at higher levels, but only when necessary. Subsidiarity is about achieving the right balance between local units and the larger systems.
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  • On Social.coop, we don’t just post and comment about what’s on our minds; we also decide on our moderation practices and enact them through committees. The Community Working Group handles conflict resolution through accountability processes. Its members are paid with funds from our sliding-scale member dues. The Tech Working Group maintains our servers, while the Finance Working Group keeps an eye on our budget. Any member can propose new activities and policies, and we can all vote on them according to the bylaws. We adjust Mastodon’s moderation settings as we see fit.
  • a number of servers organized to collectively ban those that harbored white supremacists, like Gab, from the rest of the fediverse — even if it remained active on the network, most people using Mastodon would never see Gab users’ posts.
Ruth Cuadra

The Neurochemistry of Empathy, Storytelling, and the Dramatic Arc, Animated | Brain Pic... - 0 views

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CAMLF storytelling science brain

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 07 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 07 Oct 12
     
    even the simplest narrative can elicit powerful empathic response by triggering the release of neurochemicals like cortisol and oxytocin, provided it is highly engaging and follows the classic dramatic arc
Lisa Eriksen

Extreme Futurist Festival 2012 - 2 views

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CAMLF futurist festival learning technology trends

shared by Lisa Eriksen on 14 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Lisa Eriksen on 14 Nov 12
     
    This looks like an extremely engaging event in LA.
Ruth Cuadra

The third space | Reader's Digest Australia - 0 views

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CAMLF third+place

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 26 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 26 Nov 12
     
    80 per cent of Australian's feel the pressure to have better work life balance. 83 per cent hate or don't like their job, and since the introduction of the term work life balance, depression has increased by a factor of 10.
Lisa Eriksen

Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class - The Daily Beast - 0 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...its-of-the-creative-class.html

CAMLF urbanism economy hipster class city

shared by Lisa Eriksen on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Lisa Eriksen on 21 Mar 13
     
    Interesting piece on urbanism, the "creative class," and class and economics in general.  Where to do museums fit into this "hip cool"? Burning money trying to become "cooler" ends up looking something like the metropolitan equivalent to a midlife crisis.
  • Garry Golden on 26 Mar 13
     
    This has gotten lots o' buzz... w/ his intellectual enemy Joel Kotkin (?) stirring the fire... I look at museums as needing this creative class to drive buzz -and innovative efforts.... these are the 'First Friday' night party people...
Karen Wade

What's in millennials' wallets? Fewer credit cards - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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CAMLF Demographics Millennials Business Consumers

shared by Karen Wade on 22 May 13 - No Cached
  • Karen Wade on 22 May 13
     
    With Millennials spending more like the Depression Era generations than their parents (or even grandparents), it reminds us that cycles have to be factored in when considering the future.
Ruth Cuadra

This Laundromat Is A Bar Too - The Pop-Up City - 0 views

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CAMLF third+place

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 10 Jun 13
     
    For people who would like some excitement during their laundry, there is the Wasbar, a combination between a laundromat and a bar.
Ruth Cuadra

21st Century Museums - Part One | desktop - 1 views

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CAMLF museums exhibition design technology

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 19 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 19 Feb 13
     
    Interview with Seb Chan, Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian
Ruth Cuadra

Digilogue: the convergence of the digital and analogue - 0 views

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Museums convergence technology trends

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 03 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 03 Nov 12
     
    Change doesn't care if you like it or not. A computer interface can never really replace a human face...or can it?
Ruth Cuadra

Think tank counters dystopian science fiction's 'wet blanket effect' on innovation (Wir... - 0 views

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CAMLF science fiction storytelling

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 27 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Ruth Cuadra on 27 Jun 13
     
    science fiction is an extraordinary storytelling medium that can help the audience realise that we are active agents in shaping our own futures rather than the victims of the default dystopias Can museums be a medium like that?
Ruth Cuadra

The top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 - 1 views

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emerging technologies trends artificial+intelligence

shared by Ruth Cuadra on 29 Jun 16 - No Cached
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  • Ruth Cuadra on 29 Jun 16
     
    The World Economic Forum's annual list of this year's breakthrough technologies, published today, includes "socially aware" open AI. As technology for AI assistants expands, imagine that you could walk up to a display in a museum and ask a custom AI assistant any question you like about what you are seeing. Siri and Cortana and Google Assistant and Amazon Echo try to answer questions on all topics, but what if museums and other organizations could build their own add-on packs for their sphere of knowledge? The Getty, for example, would prepare answers to every question they've ever heard about "Statue of a Victorious Youth" and museum visitors (or maybe anybody in the world) could use the add-on pack to find out what they want to know.
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