Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Drucker Exchange quotes an article in Bloomberg Businessweek claiming "truly passionate U.S. employees" make up "a scant 11% of the workforce." My first reaction was to wonder if the art…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:41PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
So tonight is the first event in the season at my new job, a concert by a group called Cordis which bills their music as chamber-rock. Now if you are asking, “what the heck is chamber-…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Would you volunteer for a non-profit if there was a better chance of becoming employed? Would you do it if you were forced to? If you were a non-profit, would you welcome either set of volun…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Apropos of my post yesterday about community engagement, the term has so recently been bandied about as something arts organizations should aspire to, it is easy to forget that it isn’…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:44PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
I have been reading a fair bit lately accusing arts organizations of paying lip service to the concepts of connecting and building relationships with the community. The suggestion is this is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
You may have heard the phrase, “He who yells first, loses.” This is a rule that is often used in beginning acting classes because anger is an easy emotion to go to when faced by …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
There are days like today when I simultaneously feel invigorated to be working in the arts and grossly inadequate for having been remiss in forging relationships and participating in other a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:32PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
I know the days of Danny Newman’s subscription parties has probably long past, but I was clearing out some old files a few weeks ago and came across what might be described as an artif…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
I just wanted to share this cool video that truly embodies the term “creative placemaking” courtesy of WFPL. Artist Matthew Mazzotta used materials from a blighted house in York,…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Economist Alex Tabarrok has written about the fact that the primary activity of firefighters is no longer fighting fires. Fires are less frequent than in the past thanks to building codes an…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
I recently got a little lesson in how easy it is to apply criteria to other people that you resist having applied to yourself. This weekend I was listening to a recent episode of This Americ…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Given that I am working on a university campus, there is always a conversation about how do you get more students to attend performances at the performing arts center. One of the easiest ans…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
I was reading an article on The Atlantic about why employers often have a hard time finding workers even during periods of high unemployment. I saw the sentence, “And workers now reall…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:34PM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2013
So Minnesota Orchestra Association CEO Michael Henson declared that “blogs are senseless and must be ignored,” and he is right. At least in the same sense that people think Congr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
As the summer comes to a close, I wanted to share something that caught my eye back in May. I bookmarked it and looked back at it periodically throughout the summer because I liked the idea …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Hat tip to Jari-Pekka Raitamaa who tweeted an article about mistakes people make when considering founding a tech start up. It occurred to me that the same basic advice could be given to peo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:22PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
So here is a question which may seem obsolete in an age of internet and mobile apps: Who is more important, the customer at the window or the customer on the phone? Even though you may not f…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
A few weeks ago the directors of the local museum invited me to an after hours talk by an artist whose work was showing in one of the galleries. Apparently the artist had floated the idea of…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
In the wake of Richard Florida’s advocacy for the creative class as harbingers of vitality in a city, a number of locales subscribed to the notation with mixed results. Things arenR…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2013
Broadway Producer Ken Davenport wonders why Broadway doesn’t do an American Idol type audition either having open auditions or putting casting directors on a bus to tour the country. T…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2013
I have only been at work for three months, but already they have me on a search committee. When we were meeting to talk about interview questions before human resources gave us the applicati…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2013
A few months back, Seattle based artist Clayton Weller, wrote a piece addressing what he feels is a self-limiting outlook held by many artists that theatre is dying and there is no money out…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:57PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
I have been pondering whether we should start offering a “Choose Your Own” subscription series in future years. In my past jobs, we never programmed with an eye to filling slots …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Earlier this week, Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group listed an artist residency program that really appealed to me. Only Australians are eligible to apply, but I just really liked the wa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post in which I decried the practice of many companies who offer better rates to new customers but provide no reward to long time customers. Right on cue the nex…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2013
Okay, this entry is more a question for readers than any sort of discussion of issues. Basically, I would like to know how many price levels of tickets do you put on sale online? When I was …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
The Drucker Exchange recently noted that the Cincinnati Reds and Michigan Wolverines teams have started using dynamic pricing, scaling prices based on popularity. The Reds don’t provid…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Continuing with my answers to questions asked by readers, last week Karen asked: “I'm very interested in how small arts organizations effectively serve their community, particularly in…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:39PM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
Last week in response to my call for suggestions of topics to discuss, commenter Samara asked, “I am attending Bellarmine University this fall as a freshman and am the only student as …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Now that I am back living in the lower 48, I have begun thinking a little more seriously about possibly presenting at some of the national or regional conferences. I had actually thought abo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
I don’t know if I have every mentioned it here, but if you haven’t discovered the blog Google for Nonprofits, it is pretty handy for getting tips on using any of the many product…
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