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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

What To Say About Your DEI Efforts by Joe Patti

Yesterday someone posted a Harvard Business Review article on LinkedIn dealing with the topic of corporate DEI programs. The authors, Kenji Yoshino, David Glasgow, and Christina Joseph, stat…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

More Room For Customer Focused Info On Book Covers? by Joe Patti

In a case of insiders recognizing that stuff they think is important isn’t really viewed as valuable to consumers, the publisher of Simon and Schuster books announced their writers will no…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:32PM

Organizing For Work At Home Staffing by Joe Patti

A number of arts organizations are embracing employees’ desire to work from home on either a full or hybrid basis. Making the switch to this sort of work environment, even for some employe…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 12:55PM
Monday, February 10, 2025

Why You Should Be Expanding Your Audience, By The Numbers by Joe Patti

Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience laid out some interesting data about audience sustainability for different types of cultural organizations. (subscription required)…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Getting People To Reveal The Boxes They Want Checked by Joe Patti

Seth Godin recently made a post that set off all sorts of thoughts in my brain. I was going to say it checked a lot of boxes for me, but that is the title of his post and it felt a little re…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AM
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Reducing The Crowd Doesn’t Increase Satisfaction By Itself by Joe Patti

Last week The Guardian had an article about people being so dissatisfied with their attendance experience at The Louvre, they were determined never to visit again. It isn’t just the crowds…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:36AM
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

It Takes A Village To Get Everyone To Take Vacation by Joe Patti

Another interesting research piece that Bill Byrnes included Management and the Arts was related to burn out in non-profit organizations. A brief excerpt recounting the efforts the behaviora…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:36PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

When Where You Say You Are Is Who You Are For by Joe Patti

Colorado Public Radio has a weekly Q&A feature they run. A recent question about why some sports teams are named for Denver and others for Colorado even though they are all based out of …

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PM
Monday, January 27, 2025

Getting An Early Start On The Show by Joe Patti

League of American Orchestra’s Symphony.org site had an interesting piece on concert start times recently. It wasn’t really surprising to learn that organizations were experimenting with…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Where Would You Like To Sit? by Joe Patti

Bill Byrnes recently released a resource update to his textbook, Management and the Arts which included a research article about what factors influence what seating locations ticket purchase…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:12AM
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

There Will Always Be A Few Successfully Operating At An Elite Level. As For The Rest? by Joe Patti

Seth Godin made a post about elite vs. elitism a couple months ago. His argument is that people can operate on an elite level (i.e. Olympic athletes, surgeons, teachers, etc) but that this d…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AM
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Not Creating Enough Of A Negative Impact To Be Worthwhile by Joe Patti

About a year ago, we were contacted by a company proposing we enter a contract to use their reusable cup service. They would deliver the cups, retrieve them from the special collection bins,…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AM
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Heist, Jailbreak, Ambush, Heartbreak, Revenge All In One Concerto by Joe Patti

I got to see a performance of The Rose of Sonora this weekend. It is a concerto in five scenes performed by Holly Mulcahy and composed by George S. Clinton.  I had first written about it ar…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Should You Read The Gallery Labels? by Joe Patti

As a supplement to yesterday’s post regarding how children interact with museum labels, there was a second short piece on The Conversation website about whether it is important to read the…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PM

Storytelling Approach Bolsters Focus And Engagement by Joe Patti

Some research how adults and children focus on visual art pieces in different ways provides some insight into how to write and present introductory and educational information to children. N…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54AM
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

One City’s Cultural Budget Cut Exceeds Actual Culture Budget Of Multiple US Cities by Joe Patti

A story I was watching throughout December was the threat of Berlin cutting its funding for arts and culture. Right before Christmas, the city did indeed cut funding by $130 million which re…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:02PM

Vibing On Those Dance Steps by Joe Patti

An interesting intersection of art and technology I saw in an article in The Harvard Gazette where an assistant professor of bioengineering, Shriya Srinivasan, created a phone app which woul…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AM
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Springboard Into An Ice Rink? by Joe Patti

I have been a big fan of Springboard for the Arts and the work they do for a number of years. I look forward to their annual reports which have been depicted as infographics for the last dec…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:24AM
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Seeking Outsider Staff With Outsider Ideas by Joe Patti

The last two days I have been covering some of the responses the National Endowment for the Arts received in the dozen listening sessions they conducted with theaters in spring and summer of…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AM
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Need More Education And Time To Absorb It by Joe Patti

Today I am following on yesterdays post about the National Endowment for the Art’s report on a dozen listening sessions they conducted this past spring and summer, Defying Gravity: Convers…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AM
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

NEA Report Suggests You Won’t Have Time To Read And Digest It by Joe Patti

This morning the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) released Defying Gravity: Conversations with Leaders from Nonprofit Theater. The result of the report are based on conversations during…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AM
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Seems Like The Kitchener-Waterloo Musicians Deserve A LOT More Credit Than First Appeared by Joe Patti

A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony appeared to have found a path to return to activity, albeit tenuous, after the musicians were blindsided by a bankruptcy ann…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Rebranding Is A Change Of Promise by Joe Patti

Seth Godin recently made a post using the recent Jaguar rebrand to illustrate the difference between rebranding and re-logoing They think a rebrand and a re-logo are the same thing, they’r…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36PM
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Music Rights And Athletic Competitions by Joe Patti

A recent Slate piece covered the music rights issues being faced by athletes who use music in competition – among them figure skating, gymnastics, artistic swimming, cheer, ballroom dance,…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:06AM
Monday, December 2, 2024

Directing People To Restrooms Can Increase Visitor Satisfaction by Joe Patti

Back in May I wrote about research Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS derived from the National Awareness, Attitudes, and Usage Study regarding what factors help them to feel we…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:42PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

United States Of Arts Participation by Joe Patti

In October the National Endowment for the Arts Quick Study podcast (transcript available) took a look at how arts participation broke down across the United States via data collected in 2022…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:02AM
Monday, November 25, 2024

One Wicked Sing-A-Long Debate by Joe Patti

For the record, I am not on the side of singing along with the movie in the theater. That said, I think it is to the theater world’s credit that there is a notable debate raging about whet…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:31PM
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

AI May Not Be The Best Tool For Writing Personnel Reviews by Joe Patti

We are constantly told about the hazards of inputting sensitive personal data into unsecure websites. That is pretty much what you are doing when you provide information to an AI bot and ask…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PM
Monday, November 18, 2024

Ephemera Becomes Increasingly Ephemeral by Joe Patti

Via Arts and Letters Daily is an article by Bailey Sincox about how theater tickets and programs, long regarded as ephemera are becoming increasingly ephemeral thanks to technology. Tickets …

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PM
Friday, November 15, 2024

Dangers Of Using AI For Annual Reviews by Joe Patti

Annual reviews are an important component of the work environment. This is especially true in the environment of arts organizations where people wear so many hats it is difficult to feel you…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:24PM
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

On The Myopic Focus On Product Over Customer by Joe Patti

Seth Godin recently wrote about how, as an MBA student at Stanford, he went into an interview with the CEO of Activision waving a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article and claiming Activisio…

SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime