Thursday, August 2, 2012
If you are planning new building construction or a significant renovation, you would do well to check out the Set in Stone research project performed by the University of Chicago. When I fir…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
During the summer many non profit boards of directors suspend their meetings due to the difficulty of scheduling meetings around members’ vacations. When meetings start up again in the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:26AM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2012
Research by the Stanford Graduate School of Business had some surprising results suggesting that even more than extroversion, a sense of guilt may be a strong indicator of leadership potenti…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2012
While I was out in the middle of the Mongolian steppes gazing out from my yurt, I happened upon a copy of the Oxford Business Group’s report on Mongolia in the dining hall. I put aside…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Okay, as promised a little bit on my view on the Mongolian stage of my vacation. Mongolia’s biggest asset is its wide open spaces of natural beauty. Only reason I can figure Genghis Kh…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 11:21PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
So I am back from my vacation (my thanks to Drew McManus who kept an eye on the blog). This trip took me to China and Mongolia, both of which will provide content for a few days of discu…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 10:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
A few years back, I wrote some reflections on Joli Jensen’s, Is Art Good For Us? I had taken the book out of the library but have since bought a copy of that book as well as John Dewey…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
A few years back I reported on an article by Bill Ivey and Steven Tepper in which they reported that surveys show classical music lovers are more likely to have omnivorous tastes and consume…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:25PM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
One of the ideas I have occasionally touched upon here is the idea that perfection is expected in the arts. That line of thought really started for me with an entry I did in 2006. Audiences …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Last month when I heard that Herb Reed of the Platters had died and was reminded that he had waged a fairly protracted legal battle over the use of the Platters name, I thought back to an en…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Back in 2006 U2 was supposed to play here in town but had to postpone because of an illness in the Edge’s family. We had a dance performance schedule for that day and I got it into my …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:26PM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
Today I am going to point you back to an interview Michael Rice of Cool As Hell Theatre Podcast did with playwright Paula Vogel. Michael stopped doing his podcast a few years back but keeps …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 08:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2012
On this lovely 4th of July, I point you to the Founding Father’s Musical, 1776. While there are some songs I like a little better, this one appeals to me because: 1- As John Adams and …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:55PM[SHARE]Back in 2006 I was pondering the situation where people came up to me at a performance and asked, “Why Didn’t You Advertise This?” Now given I get this comment most from pe…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:35AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
So I am off on vacation for a couple weeks. But not to worry, I have plumbed the depths of my archives in order to provide you something to think about while I am gone. While I am taking a v…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
Ray Bradbury’s recent death has had me revisiting some thoughts about the issue of who owns the meaning of art. In all the retrospectives on his life, you may have heard he intended hi…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
There is potential that cities across the country can ultimately benefit from this economic downturn if they play their cards right and tap into those returning home to help contribute to ra…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
If you have been considering using social coupons to increase attendance at your events and attract new customers, you may want to read a study covered last month in MIT Sloan Management Rev…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
Last week a very interesting article came down my Twitter feed, (I apologize for not noting the source), written by Les Wallace about the best board meeting he ever attended. What made it th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Hat tip to Thomas Cott for bringing Jon Silpayamanant’s intriguing refutation of the idea of Baumol’s Cost Disease being the doom of arts organizations. Silpayamanant correctly n…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Not long ago I came across a job posting for a non-profit organization that listed over 25 duties and marked each one of them as a core responsibility. Now, my first thought was, if every jo…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
There was an intriguing piece on Wired last week (h/t Thomas Cott) about an alternative approach to funding events via Kickstarter. Andy Baio talks about funding record projects, conferences…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Since I am on the topic of board decisions this week, Non Profit Law blog recently listed a link about non profits doing business with their own board members. While it is natural for non pr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:29AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
A little over a week ago I received the news that one of our partner theatres decided to close its doors. That sent the rest of us scrambling to contact artists to see if we could salvage th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 06:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
So as something of a follow up to my post earlier this week asking if foundation boards embrace non-profit values, I wanted to point to an article about what private enterprises can learn fr…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
In answer to the perennial question about how the arts can show their value to the community, I came across an answer/inspiration in the form of the Flickr group, Japanese Manhole Covers. Th…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
There was an article on the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s (CEP) website in April that I felt started to give me some insight into why it seems that foundations and non profits of…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
Hat tip to Non Profit Law blogger Emily Chan for providing a link to an article on a subject near and dear to my heart — vacation time. There are some problems non-profits can run into…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Though I have written about dynamic pricing, I have generally been a little resistant to the idea of implementing that sort of pricing because I feel having a clear and simple pricing is par…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
If you have been reading my blog regularly over the last few months, you know I have been keeping an eye on the possibility of the crowd funding elements of the recently passed JOBS Act repl…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
There is an old rule of thumb about judging the cleanliness of a restaurant’s kitchen by the cleanliness of the restrooms. I actually used this example this past weekend when discussin…
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