Thursday, October 25, 2012
Last year my assistant theatre manager gave me a calendar of Japanese wood block prints from MFA Boston. Most of the works included are several hundred years old and have really enjoyed look…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
There was a recent series of posts about creativity and children on the Creativity Post website that have made some concepts gel for me. In September Dr. Peter Gray made a post about declini…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The annual program review is a process we go through at the college both to provide evidence for our accreditation and to measure the general effectiveness of the programs in order meet orga…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2012
I frequently reference the positive interactions and contributions that have resulted from one of the visual arts teachers eating his lunch backstage. He says he eats here because his studen…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
So I recently read a rather thought-provoking guest post by Anna McKeon, on Daniela Papi’s Lessons I Learned blog. In the post, McKeon basically says non-profits are making it too easy…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2012
For the next week and a half or so I am enjoying films at the Hawaii International Film Festival. I write a little bit about my experiences every year, but what has struck me this year is a …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
I was reading today that the New Zealand post will be issuing legal tender coins commemorative coins for the upcoming Hobbit movie. This appears to be the first issue of coins associated wit…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Quick note to those who subscribe by email. Due to the uncertain future of Feedburner given Google’s waning support of the service, I have decided to use a WordPress based subscription…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:02AM[SHARE]I was intrigued last month by a post on the ArtsFWD website made by Liz Dreyer about Edward DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats group discussion and thinking process. My first gut reaction that…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
I got a little reminder about the need to shepherd your resources and occasionally refocus yourself on your core business last week when I did my semi-annual stint as an on air guest for the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
Via Non-Profit Law blog, Kevin Monroe of X Factor Consulting made a tongue in cheek post about crimes that the non-profit Board Police special investigation unit should be looking into. Amon…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Over on the Marginal Revolution blog, Tyler Cowen opines that the arts are not impacted by Baumol’s cost disease. 2. I do not see the arts as subject to the cost disease very much at a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
If people can tweet at religious services for Jewish high holy days, can tweet seats at all your performances be far behind? Well, obviously the reality is much more complicated than that. S…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
ArtsFwd has an audio interview related to the audience engagement posts I made yesterday and about two weeks ago. Richard Evans of EMCArts interviews Charles Fee of Great Lakes Theater Compa…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
I recently read an article that criticized the current thinking about an arts organization’s relationship with its audiences. Except, that it wasn’t directed at arts organization…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:34PM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
A few months ago I saw an article by Peter Ling on History Today about how automobiles enabled a greater degree of sexual and social freedom in the 1920s. I, of course, read it for the detai…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2012
Apropos of my post a few weeks back about people thinking creativity as a lightning strike gift rather than a process of work over time is a piece on Harvard Business Review blog site in whi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Back in June the MIT Sloan Management Review had an article in pricing strategies. The bulk of the article discusses research on practices of companies that have sales forces that goes out t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 18, 2012
About a month ago I wrote about how our accreditation team used games to get the leadership ready for the accreditation process coming up this year. I had noted that while accreditation is a…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
A little fun speculative post today. It has been widely recognized that women generally initiate the decision to attend an arts and cultural event. Now given that the vast majority of playwr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
This past weekend the students held their annual fund raiser for the Fall Mainstage production in our Lab Theatre. The event is entirely student generated and produced. Basically my only inv…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Non-Profit Quarterly (NPQ) had a piece today encouraging people to pay attention to the fact that Chinese are using social media service Weibo to give directly to the needy. The NPQ piece is…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2012
A woman who was our assistant theatre manager is now pursuing her doctorate in Thailand and recently sent us a questionnaire. She is surveying the difference between the way Americans and Th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Apropos to yesterday’s Labor Day holiday there was a blog post on the Harvard Business Review site back in June about job crafting, basically changing aspects of your daily activity to…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
Back in June there was an interesting piece on The Creativity Post about the Mozart Myth. The Mozart myth goes something like this. Some people are born with talent so tremendous that music …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2012
One of the challenges non-profit organizations often face is in relation to personnel evaluation. Many organizations don’t have a formal human resources department and don’t ofte…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Occasionally I get a sense that I have a bunch of interesting ideas percolating in my subconscious because I will occasionally misread the title of an article and have a whole slew of assump…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2012
Along the theme of my post yesterday about good ideas, I wanted to point out some interesting ideas about higher education for arts majors suggested by David Cutler on The Savvy Musician blo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
While Oscar Wilde may have said, "Good writers borrow, great writers steal," and blogging by its nature does involve citing others quite a bit, I generally try to avoid having my blog entrie…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2012
..Well Actually I Can’t Promise You Will Win Anything. That was one subject tackled in a slideshow/PDF Venable LLP posted from a talk they did in early August, How Nonprofits Can Raise…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2012
Today at lunch a musician friend was picking our brains about a fund raiser he wants to do for a cause he really believes in. He outlined his vision and then asked for ideas of places he cou…
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