Thursday, May 23, 2024
Seth Godin had a post this week that serves as a good reminder to arts organizations to make your brand and experience distinctive so that audiences can’t substitute another’s experience…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:03AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
Yesterday, I mentioned some of the factors about membership/subscription benefits that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS identified as most motivating for different generations…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Earlier this month, Colleen Dilenschneider’s team at IMPACTS released some interesting insights about what features of memberships and subscriptions most appeal to different groups. (subsc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:42PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
There is a lot of concern these days about intellectual property rights. Artists don’t want their work copied, sampled, superficially reproduced, etc., and have someone else profit off it.…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:02AMMonday, May 13, 2024
I was somewhat amused by the story of a museum in Tasmania that had a lawsuit brought against it because one of its exhibits was intentionally designed to exclude those who did not identify …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMThursday, May 9, 2024
Seth Godin made a post today that advocates for the value of the journey over the destination: TL;DR is defensive. Not simply because it defends our time, but because it defends us from chan…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32PMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Rochester Institute of Technology (RTI) has a new building that puts creative spaces right next to each other. The Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED) has acting and and danc…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
I recently saw this TED talk by Kelly D. Parker, a marketing professional who calls herself a storytelling strategist. Her talk was on the power of storytelling and there were a number of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:54AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
I know I have been citing Seth Godin a lot lately, but he has had a lot of posts that seemed relevant lately. One of his recent ones addresses how marketing is expected to do a lot of the li…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54PMMonday, April 29, 2024
Over the course of the years, I have written on the practice of chopping up reviewer quotes and fitting things back together to make it sound like the critic enjoyed the show. It is called c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:32PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Seth Godin had posted on the 150th anniversary of Impressionism which is benchmarked from the April 15, 1874 art exhibition organized by a number of artists whose work had been refused by th…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:42PMYesterday, the Western Arts Federation (WESTAF) sponsored a webinar on accessibility lead by Betty Siegel, Director Office of Accessibility and VSA at The Kennedy Center. Siegel was absolute…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:24AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Seth Godin recently made an interesting post about non-profit fundraising, in particular the inefficiencies that exist in the process that can’t be fixed by technology, because it can, but…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Around the start of the year, the group Crappy Funding Practices was created on LinkedIn. Vu Le who writes the Nonprofit AF blog had started calling out the problematic practices of funders …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:02PMMonday, April 15, 2024
h/t Artsjournal.com for linking to a really valuable article on Observer about considering creating a limited liability corporation (LLC) if you are an artist. I recently created a post on…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PMSunday, April 14, 2024
Recently Observer posted on a topic well worth considering – artists forming limited liability corporations (LLC) to shield their personal assets from being subject to lawsuits. By separat…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:55PMWednesday, April 10, 2024
I’m not really a big fan of improv, but I was intrigued by the concept of a show called The Worst Cafe in the World, which has transferred from Belfast to Off-Broadway this month. The show…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:24PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
Seth Godin often posts on the theme of generosity. Looking back at my past posts, I quickly came up with a handful I made about his discussion of the links between generosity, creativity, …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:54PMI recently caught this story about an anthropologist at the University of South Florida (USF) who studied the impact of algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico and was concerned no one would read…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:36AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
Sort of dovetailing with my post yesterday about art and science nourishing each other, you may have seen that scientists have named a new species of gecko after Vincent Van Gogh. Yes, every…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:32AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) posted a slightly longer than usual podcast episode a few weeks back with a conversation between NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson and US Census Burea…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:02AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
Back in February I caught a broadcast of NPR’s podcast show Code Switch where the episode was about the music that came out of or was inspired by Japanese internment. Artists like Kishi Ba…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
I wanted to brag a bit on my staff today. For about a year now I have been talking about making our promotional materials and operational habits focused more toward attendees rather than inw…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Seth Godin recently made a post reminding us that even those who seem like they are well-established in their career as artists may not feel that secure. He cites an article on a recent docu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Seth Godin made a post recently suggesting that the most effective persuasion occurs when we persuade ourselves. The purpose of the memo or the table or the graph or the presentation is to c…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:33AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
Some pretty compelling evidence that we should be encouraging people to participate in arts and cultural activities with family and friends. Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACT re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:12AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
A few years ago I wrote a post about how actors were discovering that how many followers you had on social media was being taken into account during casting decisions. Vox recently had an ar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:18PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
Last month Vox had a piece by Courtney Tenz about how to interpret art. It isn’t the sort of article you can simply link a social media post to for your audiences to read. One of Tenz’s …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:02PMMonday, March 11, 2024
A nod to Erick Deshaun Dorris for the link to a Guardian article about how ticket resellers are leveraging the hatred being directed at Ticketmaster to manipulate legislation to their benefi…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:42PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
The Chronicle of Philanthropy had an article written by the co-executive directors of the Building Movement Project (BMP) which focuses on non-profit leadership issues. I have been writing a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:02AMTuesday, March 5, 2024
I have been writing about the importance of providing audience focused marketing and experiences for a number of years now. These three links are just representative of the hundreds of pos…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AM 
