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Short, interesting piece in the Chronicle of Philanthropy discussed research that found when non-profits varied their messaging on Facebook, they received more donations. They are careful to…
Nina Simon posted that she had been interviewed on Kyle Thiermann's podcast (also on YouTube if you want view a video of them talking.) They talk for awhile about Nina's transition from runn…
Over the weekend I received a comment on a post I made in October 2019. The post dealt with the theory that the response that an arts and cultural experience was "not for me" might be based …
If you have staff working from home or are considering moving in that direction, I recently made a post on ArtsHacker regarding some tips for creating a successful asynchronous work environm…
In the last few weeks I came across a blog post by the CEO of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Patrick Fisher, laying out the ways in which the Arts Council would be using new technology…
There appear to be some significant changes in the grant procedures for the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to the end of the Challenge America grant program American Theatre Ma…
Yesterday someone posted a Harvard Business Review article on LinkedIn dealing with the topic of corporate DEI programs. The authors, Kenji Yoshino, David Glasgow, and Christina Joseph, stat…
In a case of insiders recognizing that stuff they think is important isn't really viewed as valuable to consumers, the publisher of Simon and Schuster books announced their writers will no l…
Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience laid out some interesting data about audience sustainability for different types of cultural organizations. (subscription required)…
Seth Godin recently made a post that set off all sorts of thoughts in my brain. I was going to say it checked a lot of boxes for me, but that is the title of his post and it felt a little re…
Last week The Guardian had an article about people being so dissatisfied with their attendance experience at The Louvre, they were determined never to visit again. It isn't just the crowds, …
Another interesting research piece that Bill Byrnes included Management and the Arts was related to burn out in non-profit organizations. A brief excerpt recounting the efforts the behaviora…
Colorado Public Radio has a weekly Q&A feature they run. A recent question about why some sports teams are named for Denver and others for Colorado even though they are all based out of …
League of American Orchestra's Symphony.org site had an interesting piece on concert start times recently. It wasn't really surprising to learn that organizations were experimenting with dif…
Bill Byrnes recently released a resource update to his textbook, Management and the Arts which included a research article about what factors influence what seating locations ticket purchase…
Seth Godin made a post about elite vs. elitism a couple months ago. His argument is that people can operate on an elite level (i.e. Olympic athletes, surgeons, teachers, etc) but that this d…
About a year ago, we were contacted by a company proposing we enter a contract to use their reusable cup service. They would deliver the cups, retrieve them from the special collection bins,…
I got to see a performance of The Rose of Sonora this weekend. It is a concerto in five scenes performed by Holly Mulcahy and composed by George S. Clinton. I had first written about it …
As a supplement to yesterday's post regarding how children interact with museum labels, there was a second short piece on The Conversation website about whether it is important to read the l…
Some research how adults and children focus on visual art pieces in different ways provides some insight into how to write and present introductory and educational information to children. N…
A story I was watching throughout December was the threat of Berlin cutting its funding for arts and culture. Right before Christmas, the city did indeed cut funding by $130 million which re…
An interesting intersection of art and technology I saw in an article in The Harvard Gazette where an assistant professor of bioengineering, Shriya Srinivasan, created a phone app which woul…
I have been a big fan of Springboard for the Arts and the work they do for a number of years. I look forward to their annual reports which have been depicted as infographics for the last dec…
The last two days I have been covering some of the responses the National Endowment for the Arts received in the dozen listening sessions they conducted with theaters in spring and summer of…
Today I am following on yesterdays post about the National Endowment for the Art's report on a dozen listening sessions they conducted this past spring and summer, Defying Gravity: Conversat…
