For one of our recent Coffee Breaks, a bi-weekly team meeting where we discuss cultural institution-related news or research, I led a conversation about preserving digital content, inspired by the recent deletion of federal website pages and the Internet Archive’s initiative to preserve them. It’s something I’m passionate about!

We finally gave our newsletter a name—one that reflects our vision and values. Meaning making is at the heart of our work. It’s what happens in museums, and it's what we do every day at Kera Collective. This is a space where we share what we are curious about and what we’re making sense of, together and as individuals.

This is The Meaning Maker.

I am an obsessive podcaster, never missing an episode of Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam or Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell. I recently found a new addition to my queue (via a Revisionist History cross-post): No Small Endeavor. All three podcasts share many of the same guests and same topics of discussion. But, I was particularly interested in how Lee C. Camp—the host of No Small Endeavor—approaches the podcast from his perspective as a professor of theology and ethics. The goal of the No Small Endeavor podcast is to explore what it means to live a good life. Therefore, I was intrigued with how often he returns to the topic of attention, finding it worthy of my (ahem) attention.

Toward the end of last year, our fearless leader, Stephanie Downey, wrote about why you need a logic model. Because we often help clients build logic models for programs and partnerships, I want to expand on the why by discussing more about the how and share some tips for creating a logic model that works for you and your organization.