Smithsonian Institution

Recent Events

News & Analysis

smithsonian institution and strategy - All News and Analysis

• Head of Yahoo! Research and Smithsonian Director of Web and New Media Strategy to Keynote Gilbane Boston Content Management Conference

  - 2008-09-18

  Annual Conference to Help Attendees Address Growing Content Management Requirements Generated by Social Media Tools BOSTON -- "Where Content Management Meets Social Media" is the focus of the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference (http://gilbaneboston.com/), set to take place December 2-4, 2008 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston. Produced...

  Tags: conference, Gilbane, MARKETING, Smithsonian Institution, SOFTWARE, Strategy, Web, Yahoo! Inc.

• IMAX® Theater Film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Surpasses 150 Million Viewers Worldwide

  - 2008-07-28

  Film Has Reached Over 1 Million Viewers at the Smithsonian IMAX[R] Theaters Alone, Making It the 2nd-Highest Grossing Aviation Film Ever at the Smithsonian EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX[R] Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag" has...

  Tags: Cable, FINANCE, HARDWARE, K2, Leadership, Museum, Red Flag Software, Smithsonian Institution, Storage, Strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, theater, TVs, U.S.

• Risen from the ashes

  - 2007-06-16

  THE LOST WORLD OF JAMES SMITHSON : SCIENCE, REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE SMITHSONIAN by Heather Ewing Bloomsbury, £20, pp. 432, ISBN 9780747576532 . £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Many of us Europeans have visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and most of us have...

  Tags: America, museum, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy

• 'Rocky' gloves join Smithsonian

  - 2006-12-29

  WASHINGTON -- Rocky Balboa's boxing robe and gloves will share the same home as Dorothy's ruby red slippers, Abraham Lincoln's top hat and Thomas Edison's light bulb. Actor and director Sylvester Stallone donated memorabilia from his "Rocky" movies to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. ...

  Tags: exhibition, MARKETING, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy

• Research Centers, UN Agencies Partner to Save Species by 2010

  - 2006-03-28

  CURITIBA, Brazil ENS — -----------> To save life on Earth, some of the world’s top research centers and agencies specializing in biodiversity have signed on to a new alliance of cooperation with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity CBD. Under the agreement, signed last night in Curitiba, where the...

  Tags: agency, agreement, alliance, Brazil, Earth, environment, FINANCE, MARKETING, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy

• Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea. By Laura Hapke. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Pp. v, 202. $22.95.) I have nicknamed my son's college apartment, the site of a former candy factory, "the sweatshop." Laura Hapke would understand. According to Hapke,...

  Tags: Globalization, INTERNET, Rutgers University, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy

• Making the past present: the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is at work to make his vision a reality

  - 2006-02-09

  WASHINGTON Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about "the ancestors." On the job since July, the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture knows that the "eyes of the world" are trained on him now. But he says knowing that "the eyes...

  Tags: Black Entertainment Television, museum, Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy, vision

• Songs of the Chicano Movement Rolas De Aztlan

  - 2006-01-01

  Songs of the Chicano Movement Rolas De Aztlan Songs of struggle, hope, and vision fueled the Chicano Movement's quest for civil rights, economic justice, and cultural respect. Features 3 early Los Lobos tracks, one previously unreleased and a 44-page booklet! Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (888) FOLKWAYS www.folkways.si.edu

  Tags: Smithsonian Institution, Strategy

• Lonnie G. Bunch: keeper of African-American history

  - 2005-08-01

  LONNIE G. Bunch needs artifacts to help tell the story of the African-American experience. He is head of the soon-to-be-built Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and he is preparing to scour the nation for exhibition items. "We're looking for things that will speak volumes about...

  Tags: African-American, artifact, council, Entrepreneurship, MARKETING, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy

• A Museum of the Indian, not for the Indian.(Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian)

  - 2005-06-22

  Apparently, there's been some controversy brewing around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. A bit of it is due to the dismay over the exclusion of so many tribes, which I'm sure in time will be remedied, given that the exhibits are supposed to...

  Tags: exhibit, museum, SALES, Smithsonian Institution, Strategy