Friday, July 16, 2021
Last week my organization was notified that we were being awarded funds for a grant we wrote to address the issue of blight in our community. The project was inspired by a comment a friend o…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]The Americans for the Arts blog had an interview with an arts group that was flexing their skills to solve problems in their community. They spoke with Yin Kong, one of the founders of Think…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 7, 2021
I have noticed Drew McManus will get me riled up about an arts administration topic and then suggests I write an Arts Hacker post about it. Last week was no exception. Last Thursday he poste…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:03PM[SHARE]Looking at some storytelling resources I came across a related project I was unaware of. The Human Library trains volunteers to be "books" you withdraw to learn something about some taboo/pr…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 6, 2021
There has been a growing campaign internationally in the non-profit/charity sectors over recent years for employers to include a salary range when conducting job searches rather than utilizi…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 1, 2021
While everyone is waiting for their Shuttered Venue Operating Grant (SVOG) application to be processed, you should be taking a look at the National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Pla…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 30, 2021
In an illustration of how arts and science can be mutually supportive, NextCity had a piece about an effort to train art teachers to teach girls to code. Code/Art was started by MIT grad…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Back in March Harvard Business Review (HBR) had a piece on how marketing will change post-Covid. It is definitely geared toward commercial business and often oriented toward business to …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 24, 2021
Covid forced a lot of conversations about the value of streaming content from performing arts venues and visual arts galleries. As we emerge into more optimistic times, some groups are a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 22, 2021
When I saw a story on CityLab about restaurants replacing their printed menus with digital ones, I began to read it eagerly. Staff at a couple of venues at which I have worked have long had …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24PM[SHARE]Monday, June 21, 2021
Last week I saw an article reporting that podcasts have been a growing revenue source for NPR in recent years. NPR podcasts reach more than 21 million people, and the most popular shows have…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 17, 2021
An article from Oregon Arts Watch about an arts incubator program, Tulatin Valley Creates rolled across my feed this week. The article inevitably talked about how the program helped arti…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 16, 2021
So like me, you may have been driving home Monday night and heard an interview on NPR conducted by host Mary Louise Kelly with poet Tess Taylor discussing art as civic repair. Taylor tal…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Links to a study examining the validity of claims about the efficacy of the arts in solving issues of health and well-being came across my Twitter feed today. The study authors, Stephen …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Video came across my social media last month about the litter picking samurai of Tokyo. These theater performers call attention to the trash dropped in the streets of the city to generat…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM[SHARE]Among the biggest questions I have when it comes to creating a presence for my organization on a social media platform are: 1- Is it worth/appropriate for our organization to present in this…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 3, 2021
We ran into an unanticipated complication of the Covid epidemic last week. You may have heard that cars are engineered to operate more efficiently at highway speeds because engines get hot e…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Last week Vu Le made a tweet that revealed a very troubling picture of corporations misunderstanding how non-profits operate and work that they do. This seems to be the "non-profits should b…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 27, 2021
Daniel Pink posted a link on Twitter about a study performed by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University which revealed people have a misperception about when they are mos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]You may recall that back in 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) was permitted to put a property tax up for vote on an election ballot to ensure a source of financial support. In return …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Apropos to my post yesterday about giving yourself time to generate creative innovation Seth Godin made a post today about sunk cost fallacy, practice and creativity. The point he makes …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 20, 2021
Apropos to Monday's post on Jargon vs. Lingo, a link came across my social media feed yesterday featuring an interview with Anand Giridharadas by Mariana Mazzucato, a professor at the Univer…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Nod to Artsjournal.com for posting David Rohde's examination of how viewing new ticket buyers as donors immediately after their attendance experience is extremely detrimental to arts organiz…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Seth Godin made a short post last week about the difference between Jargon vs. Lingo. Its brevity seems to make a clear case, but it leaves a ton of important considerations unsaid. Jargon i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 13, 2021
Grateful hat tip to the Arts and Management Technology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University for calling attention to Blob Opera, a fun little experiment on Google Arts and Culture. It introduce…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]So it appears Howard Sherman gets first mention a second day in a row on my blog (not that he doesn't deserve it). He called attention to the fact the production The Lion King on Broadway wa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 11, 2021
So much appreciation to Howard Sherman for his commentary on Twitter last week about a statement by the Broadway League that re-opening Broadway meant the return of a dormant industry. A sho…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 6, 2021
Last week Colleen Dilenschneider released recent findings compiled by her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience about audience willingness to return to cultural organizations. By and large, mask …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Last week Drew McManus encouraged arts marketers to break pre-Covid bad habits by renewed his plea to stop using cliched terms like "beloved."Â If you read his post closely you will notic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 4, 2021
So here is something to keep on your radar and consider the long term implications " Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest names in video gaming, donated $25 million to the University …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 29, 2021
Equity in funding decisions has become a hot topic of late. Last week on the Americans for the Arts blog, Krista Terrell, Acting President for Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Mec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:54AM[SHARE] 
