Wednesday, January 6, 2016
At my day job, we have been looking into the possibility of getting a new ticketing system. We have passed the RFP (request for proposal) deadline and are evaluating the submissions. One of …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Dan Pink tweeted a story by Art Markman on the Inc magazine site, “4 Things You Learned in School That Make You Less Creative.” I often talk about how artists and arts organizati…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:38PM[SHARE]Back in September, Seth Godin wrote a short post on the idea of doing one’s best. It’s a pretty easy way to let ourselves (or someone else) off the hook. “Hey, you did your…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 30, 2015
So here we are on the crux of a new year. People start toying with the idea of changing their lives and perhaps their careers. What would you tell someone who wanted to enter your career abo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:55PM[SHARE]The non-profit sector is getting more organized and sophisticated about fundraising and general solicitation of support through vehicles like Kickstarter and Giving Tuesday. At the same time…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Some years ago I wrote a “road less taken” entry encouraging people not to measure their worth against the progress others have made by quoting a passage from Joseph Campbell rec…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:08PM[SHARE]Monday, December 28, 2015
As I was looking back in my archives for some content to post about, I came across Dan Gioia’s 2007 commencement address at Stanford. He acknowledges there had been a little controvers…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2015
I am traveling to see family for the holidays so I have a couple retrospective posts scheduled to cover my absence. If you are traveling or just have a little time off over the holidays, may…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Erm, I mean, I am featured on Goldstar’s Selling Out blog. A post with an interview they did with me went up online yesterday. I had a lot to say and I give them credit for includi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:31PM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
About a week ago I was at a conference that was addressing creative placemaking and revitalizing communities. Mary Cusick from TourismOhio made a presentation on the new tourism campaign tha…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2015
About a week ago, I think it was Dan Pink that tweeted a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article titled “Why Creative People Are More Likely to Be Dishonest.” I bookmarked it, but …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
I was attending a creative industry conference today which gave me a lot to think about. One of the topics that came up was creative placemaking. Right now that is a big push for improving c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:02PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
I recently got around to reading the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) special report on internships in arts fields. There is a lot of interesting findings in the 23 page report…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:46PM[SHARE]You sit on the board of an arts organization and a situation arises where the executive director will be departing. Should the board leave the position vacant, appoint a board member or empl…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
On my Twitter feed I got a link to an announcement that a documentary on Knight Foundation’s Random Act of Culture program won a regional Emmy. As I watched the first brief video where…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The most recent issue of Arts Management Newsletter has a translation of a piece written by Wolfgang Lamprecht about the death of corporate sponsorship. Citing the number of corporations dis…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:57PM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
I didn’t know about NBC’s recent live broadcast of The Wiz until it was over, and that worries me. It isn’t because I necessarily really wanted to see it. It’s the id…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
I was reading about a woman who put her San Francisco home up for sale at 2005 prices with the condition that the buyer sign a “cultural promissory note.” Finally, they had to of…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Audiences today, they just don’t know how to behave! You have probably seen a lot of conversation on this subject crop up whenever something egregious occurs and makes the news or soci…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:02PM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
I was really interested to read how a coffee house in NYC was using conversational prompts in an effort to get customers talking with each other. It seemed quite similar to the program a Bra…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:33PM[SHARE]The business side of performing arts can be a confusing and tricky realm to try to navigate. There is increasing expectation and need for artists to take more direct control of their careers…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
When you are eating Thanksgiving dinner with your family and you get asked when you are going to get a real job, or something to that effect, instead of trying to justify yourself with logic…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
A topic I frequently like to write about is the misconception that artistic inspiration is the result of a lightning bolt moment rather than the product of long term effort. In the past, the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:34AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Over on ArtsHacker, the contributors talk about what they are thankful for as arts managers. Often the spoken or unspoken source of gratitude is the fact that we still have jobs and that…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
Last month I pondered if there was any worth in giving up a little time in the conservatory/university training of arts students in favor of providing instruction/experiences in career manag…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Hat tip to Carter Gillies who spotted a wonderful congruence between the posts both I and artist Whitney Smith made yesterday. Reading Whitney’s post, it almost feels like she wrote it…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:27PM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
Seth Godin had a post on entitlement versus worthiness a couple weeks ago. There was a lot in there to unpack and I am not sure I have wrapped my head around it enough to know if what he pos…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
As the holiday season approaches, I am remind of the less than altruistic truth that others are eager to make money off your success..even if you don’t perceive yourself as successful.…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
This month’s New Yorker has a story about researchers who have discovered how interdependent our senses are when it comes to enjoying an experience. (h/t Tyler Cowen) For example, peop…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:45PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
You may remember back in January that I wrote about the new rules promulgated by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requiring that any entity receiving federal funds much cover at least 1…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2015
There is a recent article in the Boston Globe about Harvard Medical School requiring its students to take arts courses that bears reading. (h/t Thomas Cott) The Yale School of Medicine, for …
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