2,235 stories by "Joe Patti"
The Marginal Revolution blog linked to a really interesting study on talent hoarding a practice in which managers prevent productive workers from seeking promotions. The study author, Ingrid…
I am not sure how I came across the article, but this Fall I came across an interview on The First Peoples Fund website with master traditional folk artist Kevin Locke. In the course of the …
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone running an arts venue that many attendees are over the mask wearing thing. At my venue, we actually had a more conservative mandatory policy fo…
I'm happy to say that things are starting to get back to a place where I feel like I can start blogging again. Hopefully it will stay that way. I really underestimated how difficult things w…
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…
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 tagged m…
Vu Le posted this week about a well-observed phenomenon he termed "Outsider Efficiency Bias."Â He defined this as basically having an outsider like a consultant come in and be lauded for …
Dan 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…
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…
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…
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 focusing o…
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 …
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 …
I 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 Philanthr…
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…
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 pe…
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 …
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…
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…
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 t…
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 Quarterl…
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 anticipat…
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 (…
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 is …
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…
