Rich Cherry is the Director of the Balboa Park Online Collaborative, whose mission is to facilitate and execute a fundamentally change the way museums, cultural arts and science institutions in Balboa Park San Diego use of online technology. Formerly he was the director of Operations at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, where he oversaw Information Technology, Operations, Admissions, Facilities, Security, capital projects and more than $70 million in ongoing construction. His has also held positions as the CIO and Director of Facilities at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the CIO of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. He has also taught New Media theory, web design and animation in the Media Studies department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a board member of the Museum Computer Network serving on the finance committee and as chair for vendor relations, serves on the advisory board of Fluid Engage, a Mellon Foundation funded project involving an international group of designers, developers, volunteers, and advisers who focus improving the user experience of community and open source web applications with an emphasis on addressing some of the challenges faced by museums and cultural institutions as they work to incorporate new technology into their web, mobile, and physical spaces and he is a founding member of Steve.Museum.
The Legler Benbough Foundation, in San Diego California, has always recognized that cultural institutions in Balboa Park play a critical role in the cultural life of the City. Over the past 20 years the Foundation has focused significant resources on these institutions and their supporting environment, Balboa Park. The objectives of this funding are as [...]
As many of you know, last year I left the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles to take a position as the Director of a new organization called the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) in San Diego. I have been meaning to try and make some posts here to let people know what the BPOC [...]
It’s not coming up with the idea… we all have great ideas. It is about making ideas happen. Successful people start and complete projects. You don’t succeed unless you’re not afraid to start and not driven enough to finish. Here is a great video from Seth Godin on that subject:
Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain from 99% on [...]
When I was at the Skirball Cultural Center and we were testing out our new children’s exhibit Noah’s Ark my favorite tool was my camcorder. No one could say “I think they do this” or “I think they do that” because we saw what they were doing in the video. If you want to convince [...]
I was at a recent seminar entitled “Looking for the Upside in the Downturn: Time-Tested Models of Nonprofit Innovation” hosted by the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences at the University of San Diego. Notwithstanding the paradox in the title, there was a really good session on collaboration, a subject near and dear to my [...]
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