Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Little trip down memory lane to an entry I did referencing Joe LeBlang, the owner of a tobacco shop whose entrepreneurial mind created NYC’s first Times Square discount ticket service in …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMI have been listening to the pledge drive for the statewide public radio network the last couple weeks and been thinking nostalgically about my time living in Hawaii when I was a regular gue…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:06AMTuesday, November 8, 2022
I saw an article on the NBC News site questioning the value of standing ovations with a subtitle suggesting the seeming default occurrence of the act was a symptom of “‘everyone gets a t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:36AMThursday, November 3, 2022
Many arts organizations are seeing a drop in ticket sales and subscriptions this year which got me to thinking about a TED talk Dan Ariely did about how unwanted options helped helped people…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Back in 2009 I wrote about a TED talk Dan Pink did on motivation. In particular, he discussed how monetary rewards was successful at motivating people in mechanical tasks, but when it came t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Perusing my archives, I came across a post about something Adam Thurman of The Mission Paradox blog wrote regarding the poor work environment in the arts. While people, including myself, wer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMThursday, October 27, 2022
Looking back at past entries, I came across a post I wrote about educator Jane Remer’s thoughts about arts in education. I had read and written this post years before I began corresponding…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:43AMWednesday, October 26, 2022
I am going to be traveling and preparing to take up a new position so I am dipping back into the archives to help provide some content while I am busy elsewhere. One of the first entries I…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:13AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
For a long time now pursuit of a low overhead ratio has been viewed as a benchmark of good governance in the non-profit sector. There have been arguments against that view, but the perceptio…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:55AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Last month I mentioned NPR was doing a series on theatre in the US. In fact, there is an installment in that series airing today. However, today I wanted to point out a entry in the series f…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:07PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Yesterday Daniel Pink made the following Twitter post about OKRs – Objectives & Key Results (because apparently KPIs – Key Performance Indicators, needed to be replaced with another …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:37AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Over the last few months, Non-Profit Quarterly has run a series of pieces on the topic of capacity building. In particular, the authors have challenged the notion that current capacity build…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:13AMFriday, October 14, 2022
I haven’t really been paying close attention to all the recent stories about the re-opening of the renovated Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, but a New Yorker article about how the acoustics…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:33AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Jeremy Reynolds recently wrote a great piece about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s (PSO) European tour. The article isn’t so much about what happened during the tour as it is about w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:49AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
For decades now there has been a belief that the lower the ratio of non-profit’s overhead expenses to program expense, the better run the non-profit is. As a result, a low overhead ratio…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:48PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Given that today is Indigenous People’s Day, I wanted to mention some recent positive developments related to the arts and an increased presence and role of the Muscogee (Creek) people who…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:25PMThursday, October 6, 2022
Countries around the world are eyeing the success of South Korea’s K-Pop, and Japan’s earlier J-Pop, and are developing national music strategies of their own according to a recent Forbe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:25AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Last week Vox had a provocatively titled article saying “Why fewer Americans are donating to charity.” Rising to that provocation, I read the fairly lengthy piece that essentially said t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:07AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Last week Barry Hessenius sent me a link to a Buzzfeed article listing answers to job interview questions, suggesting it might make a good blog post. This suggestion was well-timed because D…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:43AMWednesday, September 28, 2022
If you have read Ve Le’s Non-Profit AF blog, you know that he often frames serious topics with a bit of humor, often extolling vegan cuisine and his obsession with the Oxford comma. Freque…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:49PMTuesday, September 27, 2022
A couple weeks ago Aubrey Bergauer hosted a LinkedIn conversation with Karen Freeman from Advisory Board for the Arts (ABA) to discuss what mattered most to arts professionals as they sought…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:25PMMonday, September 26, 2022
A couple weeks ago I caught an NPR story about a group of strippers at a bar in LA who were working to unionize under the auspices of Actors’ Equity Association. The dancers had been dis…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Keep your radio tuned and your ears open to your local NPR station for the next month or so, especially if you are a theatre professional. The network is doing a series over the next five we…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMSince there is a bit of a cross-readership, many of you may have already seen that Drew McManus announced yesterday that he was going to cease posting regularly on the Adaptistration blog. D…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:43AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
By some fortuitous coincidence, I was digging into my news feed backlog and read Seema Rao’s Museum 2.0 post on guidelines for museum Tiktok accounts on the same day Ceci Dadisman put out …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:19AMThursday, September 15, 2022
Perhaps it is just the availability of social media feeds and news aggregators to bring information to my attention, but it seems that art projects have been effective in bringing about soci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
So it appears that podcasts have turned into public radio’s competitive advantage. According to a recent study, nearly 4 in 10 public radio listeners also listen to a podcast weekly with t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:55PMLast week I received an email from Arts Midwest noting that September 9-18 is Welcoming Week, an international effort to provide a welcoming experience at all levels. This includes governmen…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:43AMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Last week Hyperallergic ran a piece asking why the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) with a budget of $1.9 billion was asking artists to submit proposals to decorate their trucks for …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMAlways happy to draw attention to the good work of arts organizations, I was pleased to get a comment on yesterday’s post about creating contests and engagement events which expect artists…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:43PMThursday, September 1, 2022
I have been a firm believer in the idea that everyone has the capacity to be creative so I read a piece on The Conversation discussing how creativity doesn’t occur in a vacuum with great i…
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