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…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:19PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
Since I have started a new job I am in the process of evaluating every document, process and interaction my organization undertakes. One of those areas is customer service, of course. For th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Apropos to my post dealing with doing more with less earlier this week, last week Janet Brown, CEO & President of Grantmakers in the Arts wrote about the problems with non-profit CEOs fo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
I have only been at my new job for six weeks and already they have me on a search committee. Some may groan at the thought, but the position being hired will likely impact my area pretty sig…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:28PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
I was thinking last week about the growing sentiment that non-profit organizations should resist the impulse to do “more with less.” The idea being that it gives funders, boards,…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
My hair like Jesus wore it Hallelujah I adore it Hallelujah Mary loved her son Why don’t my mother love me? These lyrics from the eponymous song of the musical Hair has always struck m…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Some of you may be aware that there is a fairly active debate about the utility of humanities degrees in progress. Some governors are proposing students pursuing STEM majors pay a lower tuit…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:19PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
With the recent ruling about unpaid internships being illegal kicking up a conversation about the necessity of internships to secure a job, the topic of bullying in the workplace is apropos.…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Last December Seth Godin made an entry on his blog, True professionals don’t fear amateurs in which he says, “A few years ago, typesetting, wedding photography, graphic design an…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The release of the “Star Wars as Shakespeare would have written it” book, Star Wars, Verily A New Hope had me chuckle a bit at the concept, but also grumble about how derivative …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:43PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
Creativity Post had an interesting piece by Jeffrey Davis who reviews the results of the State of Create study. Davis notes: 85% of Americans surveyed believe that creativity is key to drivi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
One of the questions on “Wait, Wait..Don’t Tell Me” this weekend referenced the fact that fast food giants were instructing their employees and robotic processors (which ma…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
So I have gotten some nice responses to the question I posed about the Minnesota Legacy Tax at the end of yesterday’s post. Paul from Minneapolis praises the Legacy tax, saying that ev…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
A cautionary tale for the “Beware Politicians Bearing Gifts” file. (A pretty thin file given the relationship between politics and the arts.) Four years ago, I posted about how t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Last week I was invited to dinner to meet with a muralist who is in town painting the floodwall murals. I don’t mean to constantly harp on the small town charm I am experiencing here a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
When I assumed my current position, I had hoped that I had escaped the need to complete long annual reports. I was leaving a region whose higher ed accrediting body has the reputation for be…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:56PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
Well, the timing could be a little better. Part of the big news today is that GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and BBB Wise Giving Alliance joined together to sign an open letter to all donors …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
I had some additional thoughts regarding the article by Alex Tabbarok I cited yesterday that I didn’t include for fear it would get lost in the entry. Noting out how oriented toward hi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Recently Marginal Revolution blogger and economist Alex Tabbarok linked to an article he wrote a year ago suggesting that the United States would be well served by adding a focus on putting …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 07:40PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
As I have stated before, I grew up in a rural setting in upstate NY and just before I started blogging, I worked at a rural arts and music center. But now that I am paying much closer attent…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
So even though I am in a fairly rural area of Ohio, I have discovered that I have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to being able to access public radio broadcast streams. There are t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
A couple weeks ago a job listing from Springboard for the Arts’ job board came across my Twitter feed simply listed as “Stabilizer.” Intrigued, I followed the link and disc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:27PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
About a month ago, I wrote about webcomic Penny Arcade’s online reality competition Strip Search which is aimed at finding the next great webcomic artist. (By the way, both the comic a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Recently, (though it could have been 6 months ago the way time flies for me) Howard Sherman pointed back to a Huffington Post entry he did a few years ago about how the theater community loo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:19PM[SHARE]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 …
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