Tuesday, May 28, 2013
I was really happy to see that MIT required the projects submitted to their annual $100K Entrepreneurship Competition to have the arts at the core. The impetus for making this a requirement:…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Yesterday marked the last of a series of entries I prepared at the end of March to cover the move to my new job in southern Ohio. After Memorial Day, I will be returning to my regular Monday…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2013
A few years back, I followed my examining the idea of Quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with a question that still percolates in my mind. I had wondered if valuing feedbac…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2013
If you have ever read Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, you know he engages in an examination of the concept of quality. I wrote a bit about how it applies to …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
A few years back I was reflecting on a study that found arts administrators sought online data and learning opportunities that were relevant to the challenges they face. The problem, as you …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2013
If you do a Google search for Management vs. Leadership, you will likely find the top results imply it is much better to be a leader than a manager. (Though the Wall Street Journal guide say…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2013
One of my favorite posts was one I did covering a grant report made to the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Putting Culture Back into Agriculture. One of the great things about the report …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2013
If you look around at all the negotiations between the boards of symphony orchestras and their musicians and wonder how it can all go bad so quickly, some entries in which Drew McManus recou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Back in 2012 Trevor O’Donnell posted 10 Deadly Sins Marketing Clichés., one of which was anniversaries. He pointed out that while milestones were once of some value as hooks for news …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:20PM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2013
I had a “where are they now” moment looking back at an entry from 2006 where I mentioned the MacArthur Foundation had given a $250,000 grant to Edward Castronova to develop Arden…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Ten years ago, Inc.com anointed the employee handbook for Ann Arbor, MI’s Zingerman’s Deli as the World’s Best Employee Manual. In all likelihood they have anointed other h…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2013
About seven years ago, I wrote about a friend who incorporated the company he founded in order to gain the assistance of a board to help him expand operations, only to find that they were mo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:13PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
…there was Anthony Radich. Looking back at some of my old entries, I was surprised to find I had forgotten that five years before Rocco Landesman uttered his infamous blasphemy/straigh…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Between a post Trevor O’Donnell recently wrote on bad press release practices and someone emailing me a press release where they spent two sentences explaining in the email that the pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Back in 2006 I wrote on an NPR story that is probably even more relevant now than then. The story centered around the Museum of Online Museums, a curated list of museums of all sorts around …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:08PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
I am beginning the process of moving to assume a new job in Ohio. If you are reading this, either my computer is packed and on its way to a new home or I am. Fear not devoted readers, I have…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
April 17 is the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s death. I thought it appropriate then to link back to a post I did titled St. Benjamin, about a man who was in many respects ahead of …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Last week I reflected on Adam Thurman’s recent post about wrestling corporation WWE reinventing itself three times to adapt to changing audiences. He followed up with a post about how …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:03PM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
I am a long time reader of the web comic, Penny Arcade (sometimes NSFW) which is focused on gaming culture (online, console, tabletop) The creators, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, have bee…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2013
Salon has an important article to read if you are an artist trying to use Kickstarter to fund a project. Apparently people don’t realize the money they receive via Kickstarter is consi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I am rather busy wrapping things up here at work and preparing to move, but I wanted to make a nod in The Mission Paradox blog’s direction for a post he made about reinventing one̵…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
I heard a kid tell a joke the other day that was probably pretty old when I told it to my parents 30 odd years ago. I frequently amaze my nephews by beating them to the punchline on knock kn…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
For awhile there one of the biggest areas of discussion was about whether arts organizations should be like airlines an adopt dynamic pricing that responded to the demand for the show. I hav…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Yesterday I linked to a recent post by Barry Hessenius about gatekeepers and he mentioned that Hollywood had developed a pitch system where people without the connections to get a real meeti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
La Piana Consulting blog had a post a few weeks ago about how the dynamics of non-profits can crush new ideas and creative approaches to problems. Their last suggested solution to avoid this…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
We are often warned that art, and solutions in general, created by committee isn’t any good and doesn’t please anyone. But I wonder, if everyone involved feels ownership in what …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
You may have heard about Dan Palotta’s recent TED Talk about how judging charities on concepts like administrative overhead ratios is hobbling their ability to solve huge problems. He …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:09PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
A posting by Alex Tabarrok today on Marginal Revolution inspired some “what’s good for the goose…” thinking for me today. He links to a study showing that academics o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
Via You’ve Cott Mail comes a NewMusicBox article on how the Mondavi Center is using Google Hangouts as a way to connect with audiences and perhaps as an update of the traditional conce…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
This weekend I was listening to Sherry Turkle’s 2012 TED Talk where she essentially reversed a position she held in 1996 about all the benefits technology would bring to our lives. It …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Something a former employer has started doing has reminded me to always keep your options and mind open even if the potential value is unclear. I used to coordinate the operations for the Ap…
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