We Need Your Thoughts, Your Expertise and Your Willingness to Share

We Need Your Thoughts, Your Expertise and Your Willingness to Share

MSA is always seeking relevant content for our biweekly blog, and we hope you are interested in sharing your skills and experiences with the MSA community. All the members of our community are trained professionals and experts in the field — and have interesting, personal and relevant material to share with their peers. One of the defining characteristics of our association is our members’ unflagging willingness to assist each other — and a blog post offering info, suggestion, and practical steps is a way to spread that word across our community.

We hope you will all consider this as a way to shine at your own institutions and businesses. Publishing your expertise in a blog for your association of 1,200-plus members shows the knowledge and willingness to contribute that makes you an industry leader.

Perhaps you have an intriguing industry topic you’ve been itching to write about, or you devised a solution to a common nonprofit retail problem. Did you present something at the recent conference in San Diego or find inspiration there that led you to investigate an issue? Maybe you recently presented to your board and the content is relevant and would be of use to our community. What have you been working on that you would love to share?

Blog Submission Details

MSA Blog submissions should be between 400 and 900 words.

Topics can include anything relevant to our profession or association under the

Topics must be educational — offering tips, information, and advice that would be useful to the MSA community. The MSA Blog is not a platform for advertisement or solicitation.

MSA Blog submissions should be emailed to David Duddy at dduddy@decordova.org with the email subject line: “MSA Blog submission.”

MSA Blog submissions should be accompanied by your headshot portrait and one or more photos of your business (or a photo relevant to your content).

MSA Blog submissions should include, in the body of your email, the MSA Knowledge Standard(s) that your blog applies to.

Here is a link to recent MSA Blog posts as examples.

Here is a link for tips on writing a great blog post.

We hope that you will find this an exciting prospect and will contribute in the near future. The volunteer MSA Marketing and Communications Committee has taken on the solicitation, submissions and editing of these blog entries. We look forward to reading your submissions … start typing now!

Marketing and Communications Committee (MARCOM)

• Ione Saroyan/New-York Historical Society, Chair
• Kate Botelho/The Preservation Society of Newport County
• David Duddy/de Cordova Sculpture Park & Museum
• Stuart Hata/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Samir Jhaveri/Nina J. Design Studios
• Bradley Platz/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Susan Tudor/Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens