Quality Character Development And World Building Is Not A Game (Actually, It Is) by Joe Patti

If you are a person of a certain age, you may find that the love of Dungeons and Dragons you secretly harbored as a youth is finally gaining some respectability thanks to shows like Stranger…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42am on June 20, 2018☆⚑

Opt In To Learn How The Show Ends by Joe Patti

In somewhat the same theme as the post I made last week about Tu Me Manques  which uses social media to tell the story of a relationship, I had also come across an article in May about Pi…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24am on June 19, 2018☆⚑

Hello, I Am Thespis-App, I Will Be Narrating Your Play Tonight by Joe Patti

Amid the whole debate about whether cell phones are appropriate in the theater are some indications that creative folks are going to be using the technology to drive narrative. FastCompany c…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:42am on June 14, 2018☆⚑

Chatbot As Assistant Grant Writer by Joe Patti

When I first saw this piece on Arts Professional about data driven decision making, I thought maybe the author, Patrick Towell, was cribbing Drew McManus and Ceci Dadisman’s recent con…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:18am on June 13, 2018☆⚑

Your Phone Tells Me You Were In An Art Museum, Now You Are In Starbucks…. by Joe Patti

Last month NPR had a story discussing how lawyers were sending ads for their services to people in hospital emergency rooms thanks to technique known as geofencing which allows one to identi…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:48pm on June 11, 2018☆⚑

Culture Is There For Those Hostile To It, Too by Joe Patti

Just came across Oskar Eustis’ TED Talk, “Why Theatre Is Essential To Democracy.” He talks about the how so much of the work Joe Papp did with the Public Theater was about …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:06am on June 7, 2018☆⚑

When HiPPOs Attack by Joe Patti

Being the voracious consumer of arts administration theory and philosophy, I jumped on the slide deck Drew McManus and Ceci Dadisman put together for their session at the Association of Arts…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:48am on June 6, 2018☆⚑

Could You Benefit From Sharing Your Ticket Revenue With Four Other Theaters? by Joe Patti

Kaya Stanley-Money shares a really intriguing story on Arts Professional about how five London theatres presented the same performance and then pooled the ticket revenue. …the five Lon…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 7:24pm on June 4, 2018☆⚑

Cross Cultural Appreciation Is A Start by Joe Patti

Pacific Standard recently pointed to a study conducted in Portugal that indicated some positive outcomes using the music and culture of immigrant groups to help reduce prejudicial attitudes.…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:42pm on May 30, 2018☆⚑

Classical Music As A Prescription To Cure Social Ills…And To Sell Perscriptions by Joe Patti

A couple weeks back there was a piece by Theodore Gioia in the Los Angeles Review of Books that started out talking about the history of weaponizing classical music.  You may be familiar …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:18pm on May 29, 2018☆⚑

"Love You, But I Would Love You More If Only…" In Public-Private Partnerships by Joe Patti

This past week I have been dipping my toe in and out of the livestream for the ArtPlace America Summit. One of the plenary sessions I went back to listen to more fully was a discussion ArtPl…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:12pm on May 23, 2018☆⚑

Are You Really The Storyteller You Think You Are? by Joe Patti

FastCompany had an article about Five Ways Non Profits Struggle last month. Most of the things mentioned aren’t really news to you if you work in non profits: Restrictions on how grant…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 8:48pm on May 22, 2018☆⚑

Pop Up Box Office Are As Much About Listening As Selling by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Artsjournal.com linking to an Arts Professional article all performing arts professionals should read. Hull Truck Theatre in Hull, England started regular pop-up box office hours …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:32am on May 22, 2018☆⚑

Data Vs. Your Gut by Joe Patti

When I was thinking about what to write today, I figured a good intersection between yesterday’s post about productive employees not necessarily being good manager material and Drew Mc…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:36am on May 17, 2018☆⚑

Star Employees Don't Automatically Become Star Managers by Joe Patti

Last month in Harvard Business Review, Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman wrote about how the most productive employees don’t make the best managers. Of the seven qualities they had listed…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:12am on May 16, 2018☆⚑

Cultural Revival Starts At Home by Joe Patti

I just rediscovered a CityLab story I bookmarked last September discussing how a woman’s effort to revitalize culture and creativity in York, PA started in her apartment. Bored with th…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:04am on May 15, 2018☆⚑

The Only Bank Where The Assets Appreciate In Value Upon Withdrawl by Joe Patti

Barry Hessenius proved that we often don’t think of the most obvious things in a post he made last weekend encouraging people to create Story Banks to support your advocacy work. Rathe…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:12am on May 10, 2018☆⚑

Google Adword Grants " Use 'Em Well Or Lose 'Em by Joe Patti

Yesterday, Non Profit Quarterly had an article mentioning that a goodly number of non-profit organizations had their $10,000 Adwords Grants shutdown by Google for not meeting standards that …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 9:36pm on May 8, 2018☆⚑

Museum Hackers Target The "Not For Someone Like Me" by Joe Patti

In the last week I have seen mention of Museum Hack, in both Bloomberg (h/t Artsjournal.com) and Washington Post (h/t Nina Simon). The company does customized tours of museums from a particu…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:18am on May 8, 2018☆⚑

If Anything, Measure of Arts & Culture Should Be Civil Societal, Not Economic Impact by Joe Patti

Lest you think Carter Gillies and I are lone voices arguing against the use of economic impact of  arts and culture as a measure of their value to society, in March the Global Education a…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:18am on May 3, 2018☆⚑

When "Go Play In The Street!" Is Meant To Encourage by Joe Patti

Via CityLab is a NY Times story about how the Boyle Heights community in Los Angeles has recently hosted a “play street.” The program, which apparently started in London, shuts d…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:54am on May 2, 2018☆⚑

The Books Are Due Back In Four Weeks. The Painting, Next Year by Joe Patti

Back in February I wrote about how the Akron Art Museum and Akron-Summit County Public Library were teaming up to lend art to local residents. At the time, the only other similar program I w…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:36am on May 1, 2018☆⚑

Do You Fear Innovation Will Threaten Your Effectiveness Metrics? by Joe Patti

Over the last few years, I have frequently written about the problem with using metrics as a measure of value and performance.  As long as we continue to be told that use of quantitative …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:54am on April 26, 2018☆⚑

The Road To Creative Enlightenment Is Paved With Cardboard by Joe Patti

I have written before about the visual arts fair I started about two years ago to provide an opportunity for students and artists in the community to sell their work and get experiencing tal…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:33pm on April 24, 2018☆⚑

Art Museum, The Game by Joe Patti

Intriguing video came across the old social media feed today in the form of a review calling the visual art oriented MMO Occupy White Walls as “The Weirdest MMO I Have Every Played.…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:06pm on April 23, 2018☆⚑