Hi. I am Barry Joseph.
I am formerly the VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA and Associate Director For Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History.
When I began at the Museum I used this blog to talk about my adventures, exploring issues related to digital media and museum-based learning. I featured original interviews, thought pieces, and highlights from my work and those of my colleagues at the AMNH.
Starting in 2020, with the launch of Barry Joseph Consultancy, LLC, I turned this blog into a place to explore digital engagement writ large.
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- Social Media Bans Versus Digital Literacy: The New Battle Over Cell-phone-free Schools and Youth Agency April 9, 2025
- Preparing Museum Studies Students to Understand Presidential Efforts to Redefine Museums as Tools of Propaganda April 2, 2025
- Article on my NYU course: Cool Course: Digital Design for Museum-based Learning March 19, 2025
- What is the Brooklyn SeltzerFest? March 10, 2025
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Category Archives: From My Work
When Worlds Collide: Is Digital Design Denigrating or Saving Museums?
Yesterday, I spent an hour with five African-American and Latinx boys from West Harlem. All gamers. Over Zoom, we chatted about the role games played in their lives, how it helps them to be who they want to be in … Continue reading
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Where to Find Me at the upcoming MuseWeb Conference
I love MuseWeb. When I started work in 2012 at AMNH, it was the only conference everyone asked me about. Are you going? Are you going? So eventually I went, and I found my people. Educators were still a small … Continue reading
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Announcing Launch of New Web Site for Barry Joseph Consulting
In June of 1995, I posted my first web site. It was an innovative use of the new HTML tags for tables. Super snazzy – for the time, at least. In the last 27 years, I have produced countless web … Continue reading
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Barry Joseph Consulting, LLC is Open For Business
After years of thinking about it, this month I finally launched my own consulting business. I couldn’t be more excited. And I am thrilled to tell you about my first three clients. My first client is the Natural History Museum … Continue reading
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Embracing the Job Search with Joyful Trepidation
I shouldn’t be writing this right now, the first morning of Rosh Hashanah (I should be getting ready for temple, albeit a virtual one), but how could I not? On the Jewish New Year we eat apples dipped in honey … Continue reading
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4th Remote Girl Scout Session
(read all the posts on the remote Girl Scout Troop series here) Monday we had our 15th session of our Junior Troop, our 4th since we’ve been “paused” here in NYC held completely online, with all participants and leaders at … Continue reading
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3rd Remote Girl Scout Troop Session
(read all the posts on the remote Girl Scout Troop series here) Yesterday we had our 14th session of our Junior Troop, our 3rd since we’ve been “paused” here in NYC held completely online, with all participants and leaders at … Continue reading
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Running a Girl Scout Troop during a Period of Social Distancing
There are so many ways to run a Girl Scout Troop during a period of social isolation. I know a suburban Troop Leader who arranged for her girls to do a craft together using a local company that makes individual … Continue reading
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Girls Scouts of the USA, Here I Come!
I am thrilled to announce that next month I will start work in an exciting new position at the Girls Scouts of the USA (which most of us know as just the Girl Scouts). Founded in Savannah, Georgia on March … Continue reading
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This is not my chair (and the 20 year story of the one that is)
This is not my chair (see photo on right). I AM sitting in a chair (about to roll down a hill – a story I will explain below) but it’s a different chair. My chair, which I bought in 1998, … Continue reading
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