Info You Can Use: Variety of Thoughts On Dynamic Pricing by Joe

It seems like dynamic pricing may start to creep into the non-profit performing arts sector as a common practice. Stories about it are starting to crop up more and more frequently. When the …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:20am on July 21, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Shall I Pay Thee? by Joe

Our friends at the Non Profit Law Blog linked to a presentation intended to be a guide about compensated time for non-profits. The reason the presenter, Veneable LLP, this is so important is…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:15am on July 20, 2011☆⚑

Trespassing Won't Make You Many Friends by Joe

The Non Profit Quarterly had a piece by Simone Joyaux which I suspect reflects what will be the necessary practice in fund raising for the future. She asks fund raisers to stop asking their …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:44am on July 19, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Federal Employees As Board Members by Joe

Well this one falls under the heading of, “I did not know that.” The Non Profit Quarterly reports that the Office of Government Ethics has proposed changing a rule that prohibite…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:23am on July 14, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Arts in Medicine by Joe

A commentary by Dr. Gary Christenson on the Minnesota Medicine website offers the most complete listing of the benefits of arts in medicine I have yet seen. Whether the piece inspires you to…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:35am on July 13, 2011☆⚑

Building Cathedrals, One Budget At A Time by Joe

In something of a complement to my post on Wednesday regarding the factors influencing decisions about providing arts classes in higher education, Friday I attended a retreat on budgeting wi…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:45am on July 12, 2011☆⚑

To Cut Or To Keep Arts Classes by Joe

I am starting to wonder if the same forces that are seeing the arts disappear from K-12 schools are starting to encroach upon university level education to the same effect. There have been r…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:36am on July 7, 2011☆⚑

What's Good For The Grágás Is Good For The Arts Organization by Joe

I was reading that Iceland is in the process of updating it constitution and is soliciting feedback from its citizens. The constitutional council is posting drafts of each section online and…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:10am on July 6, 2011☆⚑

Those Daring Leaders Of Non Profits by Joe

A nod to our friends at the Non-Profit Law blog for noting that CompassPoint Non Profit Services and the Myer Foundation who teamed up three years ago to bring us the report I blogged on, Re…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:07am on June 30, 2011☆⚑

Can You Buy At The Price You Are Selling? by Joe

I often have arts professionals in their late 30s-early 40s ask me for comp tickets or ask me to request comps on their behalf at another performance space. Their whole decision to attend is…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:21am on June 29, 2011☆⚑

It's Yesterday Once More by Joe

Tip of the hat to Don Hall (aka Angry White Guy in Chicago) for linking to the Everything Is A Remix web series, some thing of a labor of love by NY film maker Kirby Ferguson. Parts One and …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42am on June 28, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Social Media Tips by Joe

In May Tech Soup hosted a series of Monday Twitter chats on the topic of Social Media. They provide a summary of the discussions on their forums. The discussions covered the use of Twitter, …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:56am on June 23, 2011☆⚑

Protecting Yourself Into Obscurity by Joe

The debate about intellectual property rights rattled around my head while I was visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art and later the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was somewhat surprised to…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:43am on June 22, 2011☆⚑

Summer Vacation 2011, The East Coast by Joe

So I am back from my vacation! From the traffic statistics, it looks like a fair number of people enjoyed reading some of the back catalog of posts to which I provided links. My travels this…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:27am on June 21, 2011☆⚑

Looked Better On My Blog Anyway by Joe

I will be back from vacation soon, I promise you! In the meantime, have a gander back in time once more. In 2005, the Wallace Foundation commissioned a study which came out, “Gifts of …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:10pm on June 15, 2011☆⚑

Conversation During Controversy by Joe

I think I have re-linked to this story a number of times over the course of my blog, but Neill Archer Roan’s recounting of how the Oregon Bach Festival engaged their community in a con…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:36pm on June 14, 2011☆⚑