Seeking Your Unique Content for MSA Blogs!

August 29, 2016

MSA is seeking content for our weekly blog, and we hope you are interested in sharing your skills and experiences with the MSA community. MSA knows that our members and friends have interesting, personal, and relevant material that our community would find useful. Our most recent blog posts, by MSA members Barbara Lenhardt, Julie Steiner, David Duddy, Blue Anderson, Chris Michel, Stacey Stachow and Pam Edwards, proved us right. We also revamped the MSA blog to include a photo of the MSA blogger’s business and an image of the author to personalize the post.

We are eager to see more blog posts from respected museum store industry leaders – store operators, vendors and business partners – such as you.
Perhaps you have an intriguing industry topic you’ve been itching to write about, or you devised a solution to a common museum retail problem. 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 trade under the umbrella of the seven MSA Knowledge Standards: Merchandise Planning, Customer Relations, Operations, Financial Management, Human Resources, Communications and Business Relations.
• 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 Ione Saroyan at ione.saroyan@nyhistory.org with the email subject “MSA blog submission.”
• MSA Blog submissions should be accompanied by a head shot and one or more photos of your business, or a photo of relevance to your content.
• MSA Blog submissions should include, in the body of your email, the MSA Knowledge Standard(s) that your blog applies to.

Below is a link to recent MSA blog posts as examples. https://museumstoreassociation.org/category/all/

Did you know?

This is a great opportunity for you to get published as an expert in your field, earn credibility in your workplace and build your resume. Plus, if you are working toward your MSA Nonprofit Retail Certificate, you can earn credit with an MSA blog entry!

Details here: https://museumstoreassociation.org/learning/nrp-certificate-program/

We hope that you will find this an exciting prospect and will contribute an MSA blog in the near future. As MSA board members, Susan Tudor and I have taken on the submissions and editing of these blog entries. We look forward to reading your submissions!

Ione Saroyan, New-York Historical Museum & Library, 2nd Vice President, Museum Store Association