Tuesday, March 5, 2013
There was a Slate article today covering research on motivating employees that seemed well-aligned with the non-profit work environment. The research essentially verifies the importance of p…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
You have all heard, or even told, a story where you get a great toy for a child only to have them play with the box. The moral of the story is often to get simple stuff for kids to play with…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I was reading today how the new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, has insisted that all employees be working at their corporate campuses by June rather than telecommuting. Yahoo has not been doin…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
This past weekend, the University of Miami had an art themed student hack-a-thon from noon Saturday through noon Sunday. Their definition of the art theme was: “And by art, we mean all…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
My Twitter feed delivered me two great resources for arts professionals on the same day this week. The first came courtesy of Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group. I guess I should have kno…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
I don’t usually promote products here on the blog, but my assistant theatre manager found this in a Pier One and bought it for the theatre. We are thinking of putting it out by the lob…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:05AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
Had an intersection of ideas moment this morning. Yesterday, I was listening to the TED Radio Hour about where ideas come from. They excerpted Steven Johnson’s talk on the subject wher…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
Finder of interesting things, Thomas Cott, tweeted a link to an article about creative apprenticeships in the UK. While unpaid non profit internships are not against the law in the U.S., the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
There was a post by KCET columnist Corbett Barklie last fall that has had me thinking and wondering if there hasn’t been enough conversation about this topic. In short, Barklie feels t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
You may be aware of the recent report commissioned by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and conducted by CompassPoint about the careers of development directors. I already had a pretty goo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
So I really hadn’t intended to write too much more about my job change until I left my current job or took my next one. However, the assistant theatre manager who is chairing the searc…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Hat tip to P. Martin for the link to Chris Brogan’s guest post on Copyblogger about Content Marketing. I will confess that I think the term content marketing is a phrase devoid of much…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:08AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
The quote that this entry’s title comes from, Churchill’s response to the suggestion that funding for the arts be cut to save money during the Second World War, is unfortunately …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
Come May I will be leaving Hawaii to assume the position of Director of the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts in Portsmouth, OH. The University of Hawaii has posted my current position today an…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Writing about the concept of music discovery, Tyler Hayes suggests that after a certain age, most people are pretty set in their music tastes and in terms of paying for recordings of music, …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Via Marginal Revolution, we learn Brazil’s Congress has approved a monthly Cultural Stipend for poorer workers. “Now we are creating food for the soul; Why would the poor not be …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, Four years ago, I wrote you on the occasion of your inauguration to ask you to consider impl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:51PM[SHARE]Last June I came across a useful article by Sarah Arrow about identifying your ideal customer. According to her, there is are a very narrow profiles which constitute a business’ ideal …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
Last month Springboard for the Arts tweeted that the attendance at the Guthrie Theatre’s attendance last year exceeded the Minnesota Vikings’ home game attendance, 425,932 to 421…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
I came across a piece by the Bridgespan Group about creating professional development opportunities for non-profit organization staff members when you don’t have the money to send them…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Angry White Guy in Chicago, Don Hall, recently re-printed a letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to an aspiring writer. It made me think a bit about the definition of the professional vs. amateur…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Since the very beginning of the blog, I have been keeping an eye on the intersection of performing arts and religious communities. A recent NY Times article seems to include quite a number o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
My mother has been doing some hardcore genealogy research for years now. There was a trip to Ireland a few years back, last Christmas we were in FDR’s Presidential Library, this Christ…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I had been pondering on whether to post on this topic but Thomas Cott’s link to a Bloomberg News story about how leaders of arts organizations in the U.S. remain in that position far l…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2013
NPR recently teamed up with the TED people to present the TED Radio Hour which takes three TED talks on a similar theme to revisits them with the speakers. The one I heard run this weekend w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2013
I often tell people that it surprises me what postings take off. There are things I write that I think are really insightful that barely get any notice. Other posts that I just dash off afte…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Today is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. If you saw Spielberg’s movie, Lincoln, you will know that there were many concerns about the legality of trying to make…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:06PM[SHARE]Monday, December 31, 2012
A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I often mis-credit my role in my 8th grade play as the start of involvement in performance and that it all really started when my siblings and I put on pl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
I was intrigued to see that the Scion car company is running a contest to help cultivate new entrepreneurs. Scion has always positioned themselves as a lifestyle brand, (disclaimer: I own on…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2012
I am guessing (and hoping) people have more on their mind this Christmas Even than arts administration. I will pick up with posting on that topic on Wednesday or thereabouts. In the meantime…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The approach of the holidays provides me with a little more free time so I have been catching up on my “come back to and read” list. I got to reading a piece by Non-Profit Law bl…
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