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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
During the Covid pandemic there has been a fair bit of introspection and soul searching about arts and culture, the role they should have in people's lives, and the medium through which the …
Hat tip to Vu Le at NonProfitAF for posting a link on social media to an essay on Medium comparing Maslow's Hierarchy of Need to the Blackfeet Nation's similar concept. Maslow had lived …
Following the link tweeted by Ava Wong Davies got me to a lengthy blog post by Tim X. Atack about things that need to change in theatre post-Covid. I will initially engaged by his insist…
Last week I saw this tweet from Aksana Khan stating that England based Arts Emergency, where she works, often asks employers to rewrite their job listings before they will forward the ad onw…
An article on FastCompany recently caught my eye that suggests a company in Sweden is helping to solve a big problem in collaborative virtual concerts. One of the big impediments has been ge…
Economist Tyler Cowen had a rather extensive conversation with poet and former NEA Chair, Dana Gioia, on a plethora of topics. The one that most quickly grabbed me was right out of the gate …
I saw on FastCompany that Live Nation is wiring some of their venues for livestreaming and wondered what, if any impact it may have on the way performing arts venues operate in the future. T…
A few years back I became interested in research that showed that Black, Latinx, and Hispanic people who lived near public parks don't necessarily feel comfortable using them so a CityLab st…
Drew McManus tweeted today that he was two resumes submissions away from being able to launch the candidate resume feature on the Arts Admin Jobs site. So if you are looking for a job, or lo…
In case you missed it, somethings to keep an eye on over the next two years or so are the guaranteed income program for artists that have been established in St. Paul and San Francisco. …
When I saw this story over the weekend, it seemed like it was absolutely inevitable that an intersection of trends toward authenticity and audience participation in cultural experiences. In …
Artsjournal.com linked to a story about Oakland Symphony's tradition of social justice in the experiences and programs it has offered. One of the things that popped out at me though was in l…
Over on The Chronicle of Higher Education, Eric Hayot suggests that humanities subjects have a marketing problem. Because students are oriented on the utility of degree programs to caree…
Back in December, Advisory Board for the Arts featured a webinar on marketing the arts emphasizing emotional value to the community. Much to my chagrin, it took me until last week to get a p…
Vox Recode provided some interesting insights into factors which will exist as people increasingly work from home. Some of the issues I had already anticipated like a move to a less permanen…
