Monday, March 7, 2022
A couple weeks ago violinist Holly Mulcahy made a Facebook post about giving the manager at the Wichita, KS airport Enterprise counter her card which had a BOGO ticket offer printed on the b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:48PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2022
I didn't realize I missed posting yesterday until early this morning. Right now my team and I are really busy preparing for a concert which is being taped for PBS. This show, A Night of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Association of Performing Arts Professionals featured a webinar today reporting on the results of a survey they conducted about the state of the performing arts. Regrettably, I missed it but…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2022
The Marginal Revolution blog linked to a really interesting study on talent hoarding a practice in which managers prevent productive workers from seeking promotions. The study author, Ingrid…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2022
I am not sure how I came across the article, but this Fall I came across an interview on The First Peoples Fund website with master traditional folk artist Kevin Locke. In the course of the …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 22, 2022
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone running an arts venue that many attendees are over the mask wearing thing. At my venue, we actually had a more conservative mandatory policy fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM[SHARE]I'm happy to say that things are starting to get back to a place where I feel like I can start blogging again. Hopefully it will stay that way. I really underestimated how difficult things w…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Apologies to my readers. The departure of some staff and absence of others has placed me in a situation where I can no longer post regularly. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon and I ca…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
Ruth Hartt got a bit of a kick from the post I made last week where I termed her use of stock video footage and other clips to create an video marketing piece as a "Franken-Ad." She tagged m…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Vu Le posted this week about a well-observed phenomenon he termed "Outsider Efficiency Bias."Â He defined this as basically having an outsider like a consultant come in and be lauded for …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PM[SHARE]Dan Pink shared a link to a study that was conducted on perceptions of the most effective way to ask others for help comparing face-to-face, audio/phone, video (ie Zoom), and text (SMS, Emai…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2021
American Theatre released results of a survey about virtual theatre offerings during Covid this week. Respondents represent 64 organizations from 25 states. As you might already imagine, the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 10, 2021
On Museum 2.0 Seema Rao asks why museum educators are so undervalued in the context of a question she was asked about the difference between a Sip and Paint session and a class on marbling t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Last month, Trevor O'Donnell directed his readers to a post by Ruth Hartt discussing how to market the arts in a way that focuses on solving the "problems" people have rather than focusing o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 4, 2021
Somewhat in line with my post yesterday about the growing number of basic guarantee income programs for artists, Artsjournal.com had an interview with the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, about …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Nod to Laura Zabel who tweeted a story about the guaranteed basic income for artists pilot program being started in Ireland. The plan is to provide €325/week to 2000 artists. This …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PM[SHARE]I have been following Lucy Bernholz, a self-described philanthropy wonk, for ages it seems. She writes the blog Philanthropy 2173 and is a senior researcher at Stanford's Center on Philanthr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 28, 2021
A couple weeks ago Hyperallergic had an article that was a critical of museums who had received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds meant to keep people employed, but instead ended up la…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Dan Pink pointed to a study (warning, ad heavy page) that suggests while office interruptions may be disruptive to one's workflow, it ultimately creates a sense of worth and belonging for pe…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 26, 2021
I have often viewed my professional career as having moments where I build on general ideas and concepts from earlier positions, but adapted to suit the local community. I am always wary of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 21, 2021
In writing posts I often draw on examples from commercial enterprises and other types of non-profits to provide interesting ideas or lessons that my primary audience of arts and culture prof…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 20, 2021
I was really disappointed last Friday when I read that Arts Midwest would be pausing their conference. I have a hard time believing it will gear up again in the future. If you aren't awa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Tweets responding to UK based Arts Emergency's new campaign were filling my Twitter feed today. I have written about them a couple times before. They are essentially focused on cultivating t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 12, 2021
I often read about classical music composers being the rock star of their day, but don't often get a lot of detail about what that meant. I just happened upon an article in Lapham's Quarterl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PM[SHARE]Monday, October 11, 2021
Seema Rao at Museum 2.0 shared notes from a session she conducted at the Museum Computer Network conference last week titled "Are Museums A Cult?" The answer, as I am sure you have anticipat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 7, 2021
h/t to Alex Tabarrok who posted about a Classicfm.com story on how much money classical music composers would make from Spotify streams of their music. Using the estimate figure of $0.0037 (…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2021
H/T to Artsjournal.com which included an article about the Philadelphia Public Orchestra, (PPO) being billed as the World's First Public Orchestra. The way the article describes it, this is …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Last month, NextCity had something of a preliminary update on the guaranteed income for artists programs in San Francisco, CA and St. Paul, MN I wrote about last April. Both programs started…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2021
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which featured an article that seems to indicate it is better to diversify the donor base rather than continue to ask the same pool of donors to give more. The…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Seth Godin recently made a post where he noted that while at one time asking someone for a favor involved a personal, one-to-one appeal, email lists and databases have made it easy to make a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 28, 2021
When I was an undergraduate, and even after I graduated college, I applied to work at the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of the most prestigious summer theaters in the country. Recent re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AM[SHARE] 
