Wednesday, December 10, 2014
When I was at the Ohio Arts Council conference yesterday, I attended a session on finance for arts and culture. This is unknown territory for me because I am familiar with grants and fundrai…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
A short post today. I spent most of the day at a conference organized by the Ohio Arts Council to discuss the Arts and Cultural Ecosystem in the state and there was a lot of driving involved…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:07PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
About two weeks ago, I posted about organizational behavior and included a quote from Peter Drucker about the value of dissent in decision making. Since then I came across another article sp…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
We are often told that at one time Shakespeare bridged the gap between high and low culture and classical music composers were the rock stars of their time, pandering to popular taste. These…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Since we are in the middle of the holiday shopping season, I thought it would be a good time to draw attention to a Business Insider article from October on the digital behavior of teens. On…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:44PM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
One of the common elements between the non-profit arts world and the gaming industry are the long, dehumanizing hours for little to no pay. There is actually a web comic dedicated to satiriz…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
In the last day or so, Howard Sherman tweeted a story on CNN about the number of websites choosing to shut down the comments section on their websites in favor of social media interactions d…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Non-Profit Quarterly recently tweeted a link to a really insightful article they ran in 2005 about the lies organizations tell themselves as a result of group behavior. The author, Erline Be…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:14PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
If you haven’t heard about it yet, it is worth checking out a recent story about two successful Broadway shows vying for the same theater. Some time back, the producers of The Audience…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
We in the arts are frequently enjoined to ask ourselves what value we have in the community and whether we would be missed or the community would be worse off if we closed. The subtext, at l…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
There is an initiative starting in NYC that I hope is really successful and catches on in smaller cities and communities because it can help under served communities and potential provide ar…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:16PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
“I Need You” used to mean something at one time according to Seth Godin. Perhaps that was back in the 70s when the phrase was just a song by the band America. Since then, says Go…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Thomas Cott shared Colleen Dilenschneider’s recent post about the futility of using social media for the sake of using social media. “…spending copious time on the newest s…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
This being Veteran’s Day, I thought I would point to Simone Joyaux’s recent piece on Non-Profit Quarterly dealing with veterans of smaller scale conflicts- ex-board members. Simo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:01PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
I didn’t really know much about Jamie Bennett when he was chief of staff at the National Endowment for the Arts or when he was appointed as executive director for ArtPlace America, but…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
It is ten years this month that Charles Leadbeater and Paul Miller first started talking about Pro-Ams, the Professional-Amateur whose dedicated pursuit of an avocation brought them on par w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
If you are in the entertainment business, it appears Netflix is shaping up to be the major nemesis. HBO is going to let you stream their series without cable as a way to respond to people dr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:41PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
Back in June 2013, I wrote about the release of a letter by GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and BBB Wise Giving Alliance urging funders to discontinue the use of overhead ratios to measure …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
A recent building renovation on my campus by the math department offices saw the installation of blackboard walls. The goal was to provides students with a place to study and work on project…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
While I was at my state presenters’ conference last week, I was speaking to a colleague at a theater a couple hours away about possibly collaborating on advertising on public radio sta…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:05PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
I was quickly scanning a story about Harvard University president Drew Faust arguing for the value of university art museums when I was brought up short by a remark made by Director of the H…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
David Dombrosky was the plenary speaker at the Ohio Arts Presenters Network conference I attended this week. At one point in his presentation, he used a chart that seemed very familiar and m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2014
There was a very interesting article on the Forbes website which explored the point at which the IRS determines your arts career is actually a job and not a hobby. Since you can deduct job r…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
Though I don’t cite him very often, I keep an eye on the blog of Broadway producer Ken Davenport because he tends to ask questions about how Broadway can do a better job of serving the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
I thought I would talk a little about performance contracts today. It may not have been in relation to performance contracts, but I recently read that many people are under the impression th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
CityLab had an article on the changing role of libraries in communities which was based on a longer piece about the Columbus (OH) Metropolitan Library (CML). As I have mentioned before, I fr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:49PM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
An underlying theme of many of my posts has been about the importance of acknowledging that failure and mistakes are part of the artistic development process. A recent post by Justin Brady o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
When the entertainment tax in Spain skyrocketed, attendance at shows fell precipitously. To lure people back, one comedy theater company instituted a program where people would only pay if t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
I was listening to the radio yesterday when they mentioned the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I was amazed to learn the researchers had gained some insight in to how w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:01PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
You may have seen that the St. Louis Symphony experienced a pop-up protest urging a change of attitude in light of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. I have looked at reporting on…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
My mother sent me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies today. This sort of thing has been going on for a few years. She has been finding these new cookie recipes which she swears are better t…
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