
I don't remember how I came across it, but a few weeks ago I bookmarked an interview Michael Rohd, a faculty member at Arizona State University, conducted with Roberto Bedoya, City of Oaklan…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PM[SHARE]Hey all " You may or may not know that some months back Nina Simon, writer of Museum 2.0 blog, announced she was leaving her position at Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) to devote …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36AM[SHARE]Apparently Vu Le of Nonprofit AF blog spoke at Association of California Symphony Orchestras last week. (those lucky dogs) In his post this week, he addresses the question about whether arts…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Some important information about changes to music performance rights came to my attention today and I wanted to share it with readers. Apparently the consent decrees under which ASCAP & …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:32AM[SHARE]Barry Hessenius recently wrote a post about Arts Employees Rights. Given the amount of conversation and news stories about sexual harassment and other unwelcome activities throughout the cre…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]After I posted last week about how English towns installation of chat benches aligned with other stories I had covered about organizations trying to create personal connections between stran…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]I so frequently tell my readers that Collen Dilenschneider has made an awesome post on her blog that it makes it difficult to convey the increased urgency to read one of her pieces when she …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AM[SHARE]I came across an article about English towns that are installing "chat benches" with signs saying, "The 'Happy to Chat' Bench: Sit Here If You Don't Mind Someone Stopping To Say Hello." …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:48AM[SHARE]When the topic of strategic plans is discussed, there is often an admonishment actively reference the planning documents throughout the plan period rather than drop it on the shelf until it …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which posted an NPR story about libraries that are bringing social workers on staff. The main reason is that libraries are serving the role as a community resource…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:35AM[SHARE]On Saturday, the Knight Foundation will be issuing a call "for ideas exploring how arts institutions can present immersive experiences to engage audiences" (disclosure: Knight Foundation has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AM[SHARE]Via the Marginal Revolution blog, I caught this link to an interesting Financial Times article (registration required) discussing how classical music is at a disadvantage on streaming servic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:18AM[SHARE]I saw a really cool story via Americans for the Arts in May about a partnership between the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System. They…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PM[SHARE]If you don't already read Drew McManus' blog Adaptistration, you may want to take a look some of his recent posts as well as the conversation on Facebook that ensued. Drew started out yester…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AM[SHARE]When I caught the name, "Penis Monologues" out of the corner of my eye, I felt a moment of trepidation that some men's rights group was mounting a show as an aggressive counter to the Vagina…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AM[SHARE]There was an article in Forbes last month about the glut of empty museums in China. While many museums in the United States have larger collections than they can possibly display, storing th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54PM[SHARE]My summer vacation this year took me back to China. Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet with China arts administrators on this trip, though I did try to secure some introductions and arrange…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:24AM[SHARE]A couple weeks back, Slate had a long form article on people using beta-blockers to help with nervousness and stage fright. Just seeing the title, I immediately recalled a piece Drew McManus…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06PM[SHARE]This will be the last retrospective post of the series covering the time I am on vacation. I should be back at the helm Monday, hopefully with pictures and thoughts to share. I am writing th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Apparently I watched a lot of TED Talks in 2009 as this seemed to be recurring element in my retrospective posts these couple of weeks. However, this is one I have remembered clearly for the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AM[SHARE]So 2009 was long before ArtsMidwest started their Creating Connection initiative and before I started my correspondence with Carter Gillies regarding the value of the arts, but I found a blo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:06AM[SHARE]Over 9 years ago I wrote about a TED Talk given by Golan Levin where he was demonstrating technology that being used to generate images based on sound input. The things he was doing was fun …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:33PM[SHARE]I wrote last week about how small nuances that alter our perception of a situation can make a big difference. Back in 2009 I wrote another post along the same lines featuring a TED talk …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]As I was looking back in the archives for content to post on while on vacation, I was surprised to see that I was writing back the dangers of the sentiment that "arts organizations should be…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PM[SHARE]I am going on vacation for a couple weeks so the blog will be featuring some interesting posts from the archives. Back in 2009 I wrote a lengthy article about a Mad Men episode where the ad …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Seth Godin had a post recently where he made the distinction between education and learning. The way he differentiated the two was that education is based in compliance and authority"you…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AM[SHARE]If you didn't happen to see it rolling around social media or on Artsjournal.com last week, Carolina Performing Arts' festival, The Commons, experimented with a new model of criticism. T…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:42AM[SHARE]Around 1600 Shakespeare wrote about brevity being the soul of wit in Hamlet. Roughly 400 years later, phone text messaging and Twitter limited us to the number of characters one could po…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:00AM[SHARE]Economist Alex Tabarrok recently made an interesting post on Baumol's cost disease. The concept usually explained by noting that since it doesn't take any less time to perform a string q…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AM[SHARE]Hat tip to Artsjournal.com who listed an article from The Conversation about how your phone can interrupt a concert experience. Author Christine Van Winkle discusses research she and her tea…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Seth Godin recently wrote a lengthy post on the subject of apologies. He addresses the issue of entities providing insufficient apologies but also the expectation of restitution which is…
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