I have read a fair number of articles about transitioning problematic board members off a board, but I have to credit Vu Le for laying out a relatively detailed process for accomplishing the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PMI had planned to write about something different today but this post by Ruth Hartt on LinkedIn grabbed my attention. Cain Lewis goes on to talk about how he doesn’t care about Airbnb: So t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:37AMWhenever I have visited a museum that forces you to go through the gift shop before you can exit, I have viewed the design as a cynical cash grab. As I think about it, while I have frequentl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMVia the Marginal Revolution blog I came across a piece analyzing the economics of stadium naming. The basic conclusion was that if you see a corporation buying naming rights for a stadiu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMI know for a fact that for at least 30 years now, market textbooks and classes have made the distinction between marketing and advertising/promotion the first definition provided. That has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AMI caught a story on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday that discussed the way airlines use premium seating. One of the people interviewed mentioned that airlines craftily use the separation of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:24PMThere was an article on The Conversation website back in March by Elisabeth Gruner discussing how she stopped giving grades on student papers in favor of comments and wished she had done so …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PMAbout three months ago I mentioned that we were having a concert filmed for public television in our venue. We recently got word that it will make its broadcast debut on Georgia Public Broad…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:33AMSeth Godin recently made a post with a suggestion that runs counter to concept that arts organizations need to broaden their audience. He has made posts throughout the years about attracti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMSo hat tip to Roger Tomlinson who made a social media post calling attention to “A Manager’s Guide to Helping Teams Face Down Uncertainty, Burnout and Perfectionism“ It appears it…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PMFor years now I have been following and writing on the Culture Track survey. At one time the survey was being conducted every three years or so in order to measure changing trends and at…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:37PMThere is a saying among those who work in the technical side of live theatre and events that if someone notices what is going on, you are doing your job wrong. The idea is that for the mos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:33PMSeth Godin recently made a post on one of my favorite topics — valuing metrics that don’t really matter. Just because they’re easy to measure doesn’t mean they matter. […] If you�…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:07PMArtsjournal had recently included a link to a Guardian article reporting that people working in performing arts are twice as likely as the general population to experience depression. This…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMSeth Godin made a post about leveraging the power of word of mouth by incentivizing sharing with friends. Krispy Kreme grew to become a doughnut behemoth in the US. The formula was simple: S…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMSo I saw the recent Dr. Strange movie this weekend and one of the biggest takeaways I had (no spoilers) was that classical music is powerful no matter what universe you are in. Though, like …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:03PMI am always interested in seeing the novel approaches people employ to present performances. I happened to catch a story last week on Vice about a guy who is bringing pop up movie experience…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:03AMSome notable news via American Theatre, for those who have found it difficult to heed Polonius’ advice of “neither a borrower nor lender be.” (aka pretty much all of us) The Acting C…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54PMThere was a story last month on Nieman Lab looking at how successful a tax credit for digital news subscriptions has been in Canada. The intent was to help news organizations stay in busin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:18AMScott Walters made a Twitter post yesterday that suggested organizations start their existence with a Quality of Life Statement rather than Mission Statement or Values Statement. Intrigued…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:33AMThe folks on the Non-Profit Happy Hour Facebook group posted a link to a Ohio State University (I’m sorry, THE Ohio State University) post which claims that charities should not use the wo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMApparently the pandemic was good for classical music stations. In a story on the Current site, the general manager WDAV in Charlotte, NC had a hard time believing his station had achieved nu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:37AMEarly in April you may have seen that Yellowstone National Park is celebrating its 150th Anniversary by offering an Inheritance Pass for $1500 with the catch that it can’t be used for anot…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:33PMLast month Marginal Revolution blog posted an excerpt of a piece by Adam Mastroianni about how grant funding is broken. I immediately hopped over to see what he had to say. While his post …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:18AMLast month, Coco Allred, a teaching artist in Philadelphia had a post on Americans for the Arts about President Biden’s visit to one of the classes she teaches. She started out with the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AMI want to take the opportunity to call attention to an article in the NY Times this past Sunday focused on Zelma Redding, wife of the singer Otis Redding, Jr. The Otis Redding Foundation i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMYesterday we had David Grindle, Executive Director of USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) , speak at my theater about “The Unseen Arts Economy.” If you aren’t famili…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:36PMScott Walters is a blogger I started following 15+ years ago. His work has gone through various focuses and iterations, but is always very interesting and insightful. He recently returned to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:12PMh/t to Isaac Butler who retweeted a somewhat horrifying thread written by author Brendan Koerner recounting how one of his Atlantic articles, two of his books and a WIRED piece he authored h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AMLast week Aubrey Bergauer made the following post calling the attention of arts organizations to an annotated press release put out by the financial company Ellevest announcing their success…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42AMA couple weeks ago there was an article in the L.A. Times about Artists Who Code, an organization created after the pandemic hit by two Broadway performers to help artists transition into ca…
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