Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Many people probably heard about a Minnesota venue cancelling Dave Chappelle's show hours before it was suppose to occur. Something similar happened a few weeks ago at a venue on the oth…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PM[SHARE]As promised, I am following up on Monday's post about about the first European Union (EU) wide survey of performing arts. I wanted to note some of the recommendations made in the study. One …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2022
Last week German arts administrator Rainer Glaap made a Facebook post linking to the first ever study of theatres across the European Union (EU). Additionally, some of the survey partici…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Earlier this month Colleen Dilenschneider wrote a post providing data that showed Instagram was the social media platform with the highest levels of audience engagement and conversions (deci…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PM[SHARE]American Theatre had some encouraging news about a trend to improve summer theatre internship programs. The need for this was seen last year as interns and other staff were walking off t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2022
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how donor advised funds (DAF) had surpassed charities like the United Way as recipients of charitable giving. I noted this is a problem because unli…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2022
We often hear about how scientific geniuses had an arts related hobby that contributed to their process, (Eisenstein and his violin are mentioned a lot), but we rarely get any detailed insig…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2022
If you hadn't caught the news in the last week, there is a major crisis at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago which saw the mass resignation of their current cohort of resident artists. This…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:03AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2022
Via Artsjournal.com was a Chalkbeat story about DanceLogic, a program in Philadelphia "designed to educate, inspire, and cultivate girls of color in STEM." Â The premise: Both coding and …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2022
" Older audiences will only be around so long. If you teach the rising generation that the theatrical experience is completely extraneous, that experience probably won't be around for the ne…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2022
A link to a video presentation about a study the Michigan Arts and Culture Council commissioned of SMU DataArts popped up in my feed last week. I am not sure what inspired me to listen all t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2022
The Artsjournal daily newsletter today linked to a Smithsonian Institution article using the title "Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines."Â From…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Earlier this month Vu Le of the Non Profit AF blog linked to a piece reporting that Donor Advised Funds (DAF) had surpassed charities as recipients of charitable revenue. The problem wit…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AM[SHARE]This post might go a bit on the cerebral side, but bear with me it should go along pretty quickly. Thanks to Marginal Revolution blog I learned that top MBA programs have a policy of grade n…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Back in March I made a post about an artist's project in Pittsburgh that called attention to the disparity in appraisals between White homeowners and Black homeowners. In a story of art …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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 09:48PM[SHARE]I 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 tel…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:37AM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2022
Whenever 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 01:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Via 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 st…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AM[SHARE]I 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 h…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2022
I 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 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
There 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 09:42PM[SHARE]About 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 03:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2022
Seth 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 attrac…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]So 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" Â Â It appears it i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2022
For 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 an…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:37PM[SHARE]There 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 m…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Seth 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're workin…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:07PM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2022
Artsjournal 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. Th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Seth 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 01:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2022
So 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 01:03PM[SHARE] 
