Thursday, October 20, 2011
From time to time I advocate for carefully evaluating the technology tools ones organization uses rather than jumping on what appears to be the hottest new thing everyone is apparently using…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Rosetta Thurman recently relinked back to an entry she did last year about organizational culture and the importance of not feeling like you are helpless in the face of it. Her basic premise…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2011
I have started to wonder if there is going to be an increased emphasis on partnerships and perhaps even mergers in the non-profit arts. I often read about mergers by non-profits outside of t…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2011
Okay, a topic seemed to beg me to write on it today– Keeping connected with those who purchase tickets in advance. There were a couple of incidents today that demanded I give some thou…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2011
You may have read about the report the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference noting the disparity in foundation support for arts o…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) notes that the governor of New Jersey has placed salary caps on non profit executives who do business with the state and the governor of New York…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2011
Back in April, Peter Linett posted about the development of arts organizations during the 50s and 60s, commenting: This was a negative identity, premised on oppositions rather than intrinsic…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
So much to do and so little time to do it! I am a little short on time for my post today but I wanted to direct attention to Eric Ziegenhagen’s TEDxMichiganAve talk, Expertise as Enter…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
If you are like me, the changes in the economy and people’s expectations about their interactions with the arts probably has you avidly watching for the new theories, techniques and te…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Los Angeles Times has a video of the change over process between the LA Opera productions of Cosi fan Tutte and Eugene Onegin. My first reaction was how cool the magic of theatre is that…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The Non Profit Law blog linked to a really great publication put out by the Alliance for Justice that explains whether your online activity might run afoul prohibitions in your 501 (c) 3 sta…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Since I tend to travel to China every other year or so, I have started taking a class in Chinese. The class has taken over my life. It used to be that the rule of thumb for college classes w…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2011
Two entries today you lucky readers. My list of things to blog on is getting longer than I handle and still have the subjects remain relevant. Technology in the Arts blog had a very cool too…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:39AM[SHARE]Hat tip to the Non-Profit Law Blog for providing a link to a piece on the Charity Lawyer blog about board votes by unanimous written consent. An organization upon whose board I sit was recen…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A recent book review gave a fascinating look at how the value of ideas has declined in post-communist Czechoslovakia. In the wake of the Velvet Revolution, playwright Václav Havel became …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
This weekend I went to see a show with some friends. I enjoyed most of it, except for the lead actor. It was clear to me that while the rest of the actors were invested in the reality of the…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
I am just getting around to reading a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Stephen Tepper and George Kuh (subscription required) about the need to get serious about teaching creativ…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 01:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Last week I was reading about some interesting ticketing structures being used by theatre groups in Chicago. Theatre Wit offers what is described as a Netflix subscription model where they p…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Non-Profit Quarterly linked to an interview in Fast Company in which Warren Buffet’s grandson talks about his approach to philanthropy as he takes up the reins of the family foundation…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2011
One of the biggest dating no-nos is monopolizing the conversation and talking only about yourself. Most of us are probably pretty good at recognizing when we are personally committing this f…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Ever since it was announced back in July, I have been waiting for Arts MidWest to post their video from the talk given by Andrew McIntyre provocatively titled, Arts Marketing is Dead: Long L…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2011
Via Andrew Taylor’s Twitter feed last week, I became aware of an entry on Nina Simon’s Museum 2.0 blog about use of space to engage arts attendees in different ways. What was rea…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2011
For a few years now people have been calling for foundations and other funders to provide more long term capital investment in non-profit organizations. The Social Velocity blog has an inter…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2011
So after my post a couple weeks ago about why it is bad in a legal sense to have a restrictive social media policy, I am sure some of you have been wondering under what circumstances you can…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2011
A partnership of GuideStar USA, Independent Sector and BBB Wise Giving Alliance has created a free online tool, Charting Impact, which non-profits and foundations can use to assess themselve…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Interesting piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the responsibilities of non-profit boards to attend to the dissolution of their organizations. Janet Kleinfelter, a deputy attorney g…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 04:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Since the publication of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, the idea that you need 10,000 hours of practice to master a discipline/skill has started to become something of an article of fait…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 03:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
Hat tip to Rosetta Thurman. To paraphrase Thoreau (or The United States Magazine and Democratic Review), apparently the social media policy which is best governs least. According to a piece …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
I just finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion wherein a group sails from the Philippines to California around the start of the 18th century. Not quite knowing how to get there, the c…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Currently I am involved in talking with architects to plan a renovation for our theatre. Part of this will involve razing and moving our ticket office. In the course of other theatre design …
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
Rosetta Thurman posted her 15 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Nonprofit Career Many of her questions dealt with personal ambitions and what image you had of ideal situations. T…
SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 02:11AM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
