Monday, July 6, 2020
Interesting short piece on the FastCompany website that points out the current uncertainty about the future created the the Covid-19 pandemic makes deferring on a decision seem the wise opti…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:36PMThursday, July 2, 2020
There is a piece on ArtsHacker I recently published dealing with a lot of the legal questions arts and cultural venues face when trying to make re-opening plans. You may be aware that people…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:48PMWednesday, July 1, 2020
I was listening to an episode of How I Built This where Guy Raz interviews ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia. At first I was just drawn to listen because Kadakia presented a familiar story of …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:24AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
In an earlier entry, I had written about meeting the legal duty of care and planning to re-open your venue as Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed. It is good to be aware of legal duty of car…
Linked From artshacker.com at 04:10PMIn the Washington Post, Jon Gertner reviews a book about innovation by Matt Ridley. One aspect of the book Gertner emphasizes is Ridley’s view that innovation is 90% perspiration and 10%…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 06:06AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Tyler Green’s tweet today about art museums acting like corporations rather than charities got me to look at the full series of tweets on the subject. He is angered by the fact that inst…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 04:12AMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Artsjournal.com linked to a Washington Post story about all the psychological considerations some movie theater operators are factoring into re-opening their spaces for screenings. To paraph…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 03:48AMMonday, June 22, 2020
The news JC Penney is closing a number of their stores and liquidating the inventory reminded me of a post I made eight years ago about the company’s efforts to deal more fairly with custo…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:18PMSaturday, June 20, 2020
While people still haven’t returned to the daily routines they may have had before Covid-19 brought a halt to so much of our lives, it might be worth encouraging people to continue cultiva…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:32PMSeth Godin made a post today that addresses the current climate of Black Lives Matter, policing, statues, etc without directly naming any of these things. (A week ago he mentioned he gener…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:32PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
I arrived in my office last Friday to find a heck of a lot more emails in my Inbox than I am used to. It turned out the evening before the governor had announced a change of guidelines that …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:03PMThursday, June 11, 2020
Sometimes a good headline is all it takes. When I saw a link to a New Yorker piece about “Bassoonfluencers,” I knew I had to at least take a look. It turned out to be an article about a …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:54AMTuesday, June 9, 2020
I read stories celebrating the fact that Covid-19 is finally making businesses recognize the benefits of telecommuting, confident that there will be this great revolution that will see peopl…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:24PMIt appears Indiana University’s Center for Cultural Affairs was having some sort of virtual convening around the topic of New. Not Normal: Artists, the Creative Sector, and Innovation afte…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 10:06AMThursday, June 4, 2020
I don’t know about everyone else, but not having a slate of performances on my schedule has kept me just as occupied as actually having events. While I am definitely grateful to still have…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:06AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
At the end of last month, Nina Simon did the lead presentation for Opera America’s virtual conference. (Or perhaps it was just the lead presentation for the topic of “Creating Real Belon…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Last week I had a post on Arts Hacker featuring the Event Safety Alliance’s (ESA) Reopening Guide for live event venues. You may have already seen the guide being passed around by a lot …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:32AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Thanks to funding from a mysterious third party, today my state presenter consortium was able to participate in a webinar lead by Collen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS where th…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:24PMIn another post, we had shared some general guidance provided by the Downtown Professionals Network for re-opening arts and cultural venues as Covid-19 restrictions ease up. The Event Safety…
Linked From artshacker.com at 03:17PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
There was a piece on Vox today that I jumped on with interest because the title seemed to imply it was about a family run dance school applying for the Paycheck Protection Program. I shoul…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:03PMThursday, May 21, 2020
There has been a lot of conversation among my peers about how to revamp our venue seating charts to comply with social distancing. Some people were seating in every other row with 3-4 seats …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 02:54AMTuesday, May 19, 2020
Interesting article on Harvard Business Review site titled Is Your Business Masquerading as Data-Driven? Now you probably feel that when are stumbling blind through an environment everyone s…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:24PMThe challenges of Covid-19 raise for arts organizations has resulted in a number of valuable resources being produced. When I came across them, I am often torn between writing about them on …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 01:54AMMonday, May 18, 2020
As live-streaming performances moves from being quickly assembled, impromptu performances organizations were using to keep connected with audiences during Covid-19 quarantine toward being a …
Linked From artshacker.com at 01:09PMFriday, May 15, 2020
A number of theaters around the country have started posting messages on their marquees to bolster the morale of their community. Here at my venue, we were trying to think of a message to po…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 12:24PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
When I mentioned organizations addressing issues of health and safety in my post yesterday, I was thinking about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Between high school and my first couple years …
Linked From insidethearts.com at 05:24AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
You may have seen the video message by Guthrie Theatre artistic director Joseph Haj last week where he laid out why the Guthrie wouldn’t be offering their content virtually as other places…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 11:12AMThursday, May 7, 2020
There was an article on Arts Professional UK a couple weeks ago that presented an intriguing idea–the use of receipt lotteries to fund arts & education. Receipt lotteries started in Ta…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:42PMWednesday, May 6, 2020
You may remember reading that Germany had rolled out €50 billion ($54 billion) in funding for the arts a few weeks back. The news was touted as putting arts funding in the US to shame. Whi…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 09:03PMMonday, May 4, 2020
There are a lot of stories out there about how some US states are allowing businesses to open. To my knowledge, none have reached the point of allowing live performance venues to open yet, b…
Linked From insidethearts.com at 08:12PMSaturday, May 2, 2020
If you are looking for advice on best practices for arts and cultural entities once they are allowed to re-open, Downtown Professionals Network (DPN) has created a website specifically focus…
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