Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Apologies to my readers. The departure of some staff and absence of others has placed me in a situation where I can no longer post regularly. Hopefully this will resolve itself soon and I ca…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:12AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Ruth Hartt got a bit of a kick from the post I made last week where I termed her use of stock video footage and other clips to create an video marketing piece as a “Franken-Ad.” She tagg…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Vu Le posted this week about a well-observed phenomenon he termed “Outsider Efficiency Bias.” He defined this as basically having an outsider like a consultant come in and be lauded fo…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18PMDan Pink shared a link to a study that was conducted on perceptions of the most effective way to ask others for help comparing face-to-face, audio/phone, video (ie Zoom), and text (SMS, Emai…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:06AMThursday, November 11, 2021
American Theatre released results of a survey about virtual theatre offerings during Covid this week. Respondents represent 64 organizations from 25 states. As you might already imagine, the…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06AMWednesday, November 10, 2021
On Museum 2.0 Seema Rao asks why museum educators are so undervalued in the context of a question she was asked about the difference between a Sip and Paint session and a class on marbling t…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:48AMTuesday, November 9, 2021
Last month, Trevor O’Donnell directed his readers to a post by Ruth Hartt discussing how to market the arts in a way that focuses on solving the “problems” people have rather than focu…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24AMThursday, November 4, 2021
Somewhat in line with my post yesterday about the growing number of basic guarantee income programs for artists, Artsjournal.com had an interview with the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, about …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:48AMTuesday, November 2, 2021
Nod to Laura Zabel who tweeted a story about the guaranteed basic income for artists pilot program being started in Ireland. The plan is to provide €325/week to 2000 artists. This is act…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMI have been following Lucy Bernholz, a self-described philanthropy wonk, for ages it seems. She writes the blog Philanthropy 2173 and is a senior researcher at Stanford’s Center on Philant…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:06PMThursday, October 28, 2021
A couple weeks ago Hyperallergic had an article that was a critical of museums who had received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds meant to keep people employed, but instead ended up la…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Dan Pink pointed to a study (warning, ad heavy page) that suggests while office interruptions may be disruptive to one’s workflow, it ultimately creates a sense of worth and belonging for …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:48AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
I have often viewed my professional career as having moments where I build on general ideas and concepts from earlier positions, but adapted to suit the local community. I am always wary of …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32AMThursday, October 21, 2021
In writing posts I often draw on examples from commercial enterprises and other types of non-profits to provide interesting ideas or lessons that my primary audience of arts and culture prof…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:24AMWednesday, October 20, 2021
I was really disappointed last Friday when I read that Arts Midwest would be pausing their conference. I have a hard time believing it will gear up again in the future. If you aren’t awa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:12AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Tweets responding to UK based Arts Emergency’s new campaign were filling my Twitter feed today. I have written about them a couple times before. They are essentially focused on cultivating…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:54PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
I often read about classical music composers being the rock star of their day, but don’t often get a lot of detail about what that meant. I just happened upon an article in Lapham’s Quar…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:36PMMonday, October 11, 2021
Seema Rao at Museum 2.0 shared notes from a session she conducted at the Museum Computer Network conference last week titled “Are Museums A Cult?” The answer, as I am sure you have antic…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18PMThursday, October 7, 2021
h/t to Alex Tabarrok who posted about a Classicfm.com story on how much money classical music composers would make from Spotify streams of their music. Using the estimate figure of $0.0037 (…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:36AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
H/T to Artsjournal.com which included an article about the Philadelphia Public Orchestra, (PPO) being billed as the World’s First Public Orchestra. The way the article describes it, this i…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:24PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
Last month, NextCity had something of a preliminary update on the guaranteed income for artists programs in San Francisco, CA and St. Paul, MN I wrote about last April. Both programs started…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMThursday, September 30, 2021
Hat tip to Artsjournal.com which featured an article that seems to indicate it is better to diversify the donor base rather than continue to ask the same pool of donors to give more. The a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:54AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Seth Godin recently made a post where he noted that while at one time asking someone for a favor involved a personal, one-to-one appeal, email lists and databases have made it easy to make a…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:36AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
When I was an undergraduate, and even after I graduated college, I applied to work at the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of the most prestigious summer theaters in the country. Recent re…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:18AMThursday, September 23, 2021
This morning I attended a brand reveal for a Marriott hotel slated to open half a block from my venue in/around January. This particular collection of hotels is highly customized to the comm…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMWednesday, September 22, 2021
People working or closely aligned with arts organizations know that a central topic of conversation in recent weeks is whether to require proof of vaccination for audiences. Drew McManus has…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:18PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
You may have seen last week that CBS quickly shifted directions when their planned show to pit activists against each other in a game show like competition drew extremely negative responses …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 07:54PMThursday, September 16, 2021
There have been a lot of stories about shows re-opening on Broadway and how important that is to the economy of NYC. While I haven’t read everything single article, one that appeared on Bl…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:42AMWednesday, September 15, 2021
My day job is Executive Director of The Grand Opera House in Macon, GA. Around the end of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, it was vogue to name theaters as Grand Opera …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32AMMonday, September 13, 2021
More great stories of artists being part of infrastructure projects, this time from a Next City article that came out last week. I have written about these type of projects before and one of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 10:48PMThursday, September 9, 2021
For Purpose Law Group posted the second installment of their “Nonprofits: What Not To Do,” series yesterday. The first installment dealt with the infamous Indianapolis Museum of Art job …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:06AM 
