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So a bit of a light-hearted follow up on yesterday’s post about states making laws to combat deceptive ticketing practices. I have to give much love to Ticketing Professionals (UK) Confere…
About a year ago I had mentioned that states had begun creating legislation to combat problematic ticket resale practices given that legislation on the federal level was either slow to emerg…
According to a piece in Harvard Business Review about what companies can learn from their biggest fans, apparently only the highest levels of satisfaction will result in an increase of produ…
There was an article on the FastCompany website talking about how companies can’t expect to scale customer connection. It needs to happen on a individualize basis through a relatively pain…
Last week I heard a news story about the Department of Education moving to require colleges and universities to provide graduates are better off with a degree than a high school diploma or r…
Over on the Charity Lawyer blog Ellis Carter recently posted on a topic that was not on my radar at all. Twenty-three states have sent a letter to GoFundMe regarding donation pages created f…
Last week, CreativeWest hosted a high quality webinar on succession planning. The guest speakers were Roy Hirabayshi, a founder of San Jose Taiko, and Tom Clareson of the Bay Area Arts Readi…
Seth Godin recently wrote about his perception that people approach fundraising in the wrong way. He suggests that for the donor making a donation is just as transactional as buying a suite …
I had seen a post on LinkedIn celebrating a bill establishing Artist Corporations passing out of committee in Colorado. Since I had never heard of that before, I did some additional research…
In conversations about why people are not attending arts and cultural events and experiences the concept of the work being too complicated for people to understand or perhaps, more complicat…
A couple weeks ago, Thomas Smith, an AI expert addressed Timothee Chalamet's comments about ballet and opera in Fast Company. Smith's take was that amid all the AI generated content people a…
For years now I have been talking about the value of non-profit arts and cultural institutions in communities in terms that don't emphasize monetary ROI to any group that will listen. Recent…
Fast Company had a piece on how public use of spaces has changed the spaces and art for the better. The bottom line is basically, design spaces to facilitate flexible use and don't try to re…
I always enjoy receiving ArtsMidwest's newsletters. They often feature great ideas to stea..erm…adapt for use in other communities. Recently they posted a call for pitches from residents o…
Apparently there is a growing concern in the museum world about the reluctance of younger generations to assume leadership roles given the challenges museum leaders face. This has been somet…
Back in January there was an article on Nautilus about boredom and the trend of people trying to endure forced boredom. There are "Do Nothing Challenges" and "Rawdogging" where people intent…
Recently in The Guardian, Tom Service suggested the classical music exponents stop trying to misrepresent the nature of the genre. He feels it does the music a disservice to try to create ap…
NPR had a story earlier this month about theaters' efforts to appeal to solo attendees. Apparently the Broadway League has noted that solo attendance during 2024-2025 season was double previ…
Entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett recently did a podcast episode addressing some intellectual property and copyright issues which had been in the news. One of the probl…
The Conversation recently had an article tangentially related to the concept of AI art. In this case, it is players of video games creating art out of the virtual landscapes in which they pl…
As I am wont to do, once again I am going to state that Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS have provided some interesting data insights. Back in the middle of February they rele…
Early last month Seth Godin made a post about precision and accuracy. The more I have thought about it, the more convinced I am that he hasn't fully considered his argument. Either that, or …
This week Kyle Bowen at Museum as Progress made a lengthy post about why they design their gatherings the way they do. What was interesting to me was how clear they are about what they are t…
In the last couple weeks there have been articles about Ireland making their basic income for artists program permanent. What that means is that around 2000 artists will be randomly chosen b…
Via Artsjournal.com is a piece on The Critic addressing the trend in thinking art has curative abilities. I have long written about the problem with measuring the value of art in prescriptiv…
