Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Now and again the issue is raised about people moving from the corporate to non-profit world without really understanding the philosophical and cultural differences between the two sectors.…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:49PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Diane Ragsdale has an extremely interesting post today related to an earlier set of posts she made two years ago about coercive philanthropy in response to change of direction the Irvine Fou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2015
As part of our website revamp, I am in the process of adding content about the various murals located around the building. One of the best pieces is a little removed from the lobby and spans…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The Wall Street Journal had a story entitled Docents Gone Wild sharing some stories about museum docents going off script, treating visitors rudely or diverting people away from works of art…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:38PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2015
I do a lot of talking about how marketing is the business of everyone in the organization, not just the department bearing that name. Everybody needs to be invested in the organization and i…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
I had made a suggestion to the community board we partner with on our presenting season that they think about changing the names of their giving categories. My rationale was that the current…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
…and how do you know? I frequently promote ideas Seth Godin posits on his blog and show how they connect with the arts. I do it so frequently, you may be astonished to learn this ain&#…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:16AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
Createquity tweeted a piece on Pacific Standard covering a study investigating the way musical taste reflects class divisions. Despite the claim music streaming services are helping to disso…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:54PM[SHARE]A potentially problematic assumption many people make is that the status of being an ex officio member of a group limits that person’s voting rights. Nothing could be further from the …
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Everyday I get a flurry of emails from the agents of performing artists letting me know when the performers are available cross the course of the next year or two. Often I notice that ar…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:56PM[SHARE]For about 7 years now I have been paying attention to the basic concept of leadership transition in non-profits. At first there the conversation was about the lack of transition planning wit…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:38AM[SHARE]Monday, June 15, 2015
Seth Godin recently linked back to a post he wrote in 2011 about the economics of fund raising galas. To heavily summarize what many of us already know, he points out that it is difficult to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
I apologize for missing my posting schedule yesterday. I was involved with an activity that I need to keep confidential. It kept me busy all day and required a bit of driving to return from.…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Term limits for board members are a tricky subject. When you are first starting a non-profit organization, the board is often the sole source of labor until the organization gathers enough r…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
Last week I was reading an article on Slate that talked about teachers who were making more money selling their lesson plans online than they were from their teaching jobs. So before I go on…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 3, 2015
In the course of any given week, I don’t usually think about supertitles. However, in the course of the last week, the topic has come up twice. First, in a post by Fred Plotkin about o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
NPR’s Planet Money program worked up a little interactive tool that purports to tell you whether your job will be automated in the next 20 years. On the whole, Arts and Entertainment f…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:51PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
The dean of arts and sciences of the university and I were talking briefly about strategies to attract more students to performances. One of the hypothesis that occurred to us was that the s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2015
One of the reasons why I like reading Broadway producer Ken Davenport’s blog, The Producer’s Perspective, is that like a lot of non-profit arts managers, (though he isn’t o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Earlier this month, Seth Godin made a post about discovery fatigue that makes me think that recommendations from trusted sources are going to play an ever larger role in getting people to in…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Earlier this week Samantha Teter had a piece on ArtsHacker about writing bios. She does a good job pointing out many important elements that should be part of a bio (including proofreading) …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:28PM[SHARE]There is so much discussion about intellectual property rights, it can make you nervous about using other people’s images. Stock photos can either be unsuitable to your needs, or e…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
A few weeks ago I posted about an orchestra in Bremen, Germany which is based out of an elementary school. The situation has been something both the students and musicians have found to be c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:26PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
Non-Profit Law blogger Gene Tagaki had a post on LinkedIn a couple weeks ago about Social Impact Bonds. These bonds are a fairly new approach to funding non-profit activities. While I think …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Okay dear readers, I need your help. Buoyed by the amount of traffic and social media sharing on my “Talking to Strangers” post back in February and encouraged by the recent rese…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:33PM[SHARE]Since there is always a call for ideas to integrate the arts into other school subjects, I wanted to note the intersection of theater and physics. One of the great things about the backstage…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Last week Createquity published an analysis looking at why people in lower socioeconomic status (SES) don’t attend arts events. Their research challenges the common assumption that pri…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
As your performance season ends, like me you may be looking to thank all the volunteers whose hard work made your projects possible over the past year. You might feel a little guilty about a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2015
We often hear that our social media posts shouldn’t be heavy on self promotion, but rather seek to engage people with information that might be useful or interesting to them. But I thi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
This article on CNN about the role music is playing in the aftermath of the earthquake in Nepal caught my eye. There were similar stories and videos after the 2010 Haitian earthquake of peop…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:25PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
Non-Profit Quarterly recently posted a story by Beth Gazley examining how private donations are increasingly being used to subsidize public services as government funding is cut. One finding…
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