2,270 stories by "Joe Patti"
Covid forced a lot of conversations about the value of streaming content from performing arts venues and visual arts galleries. As we emerge into more optimistic times, some groups are a…
When I saw a story on CityLab about restaurants replacing their printed menus with digital ones, I began to read it eagerly. Staff at a couple of venues at which I have worked have long had …
Last week I saw an article reporting that podcasts have been a growing revenue source for NPR in recent years. NPR podcasts reach more than 21 million people, and the most popular shows have…
An article from Oregon Arts Watch about an arts incubator program, Tulatin Valley Creates rolled across my feed this week. The article inevitably talked about how the program helped arti…
So like me, you may have been driving home Monday night and heard an interview on NPR conducted by host Mary Louise Kelly with poet Tess Taylor discussing art as civic repair. Taylor tal…
Links to a study examining the validity of claims about the efficacy of the arts in solving issues of health and well-being came across my Twitter feed today. The study authors, Stephen …
Video came across my social media last month about the litter picking samurai of Tokyo. These theater performers call attention to the trash dropped in the streets of the city to generat…
Among the biggest questions I have when it comes to creating a presence for my organization on a social media platform are: 1- Is it worth/appropriate for our organization to present in this…
We ran into an unanticipated complication of the Covid epidemic last week. You may have heard that cars are engineered to operate more efficiently at highway speeds because engines get hot e…
Last week Vu Le made a tweet that revealed a very troubling picture of corporations misunderstanding how non-profits operate and work that they do. This seems to be the "non-profits should b…
Daniel Pink posted a link on Twitter about a study performed by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University which revealed people have a misperception about when they are mos…
You may recall that back in 2010 the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) was permitted to put a property tax up for vote on an election ballot to ensure a source of financial support. In return …
Apropos to my post yesterday about giving yourself time to generate creative innovation Seth Godin made a post today about sunk cost fallacy, practice and creativity. The point he makes …
Apropos to Monday's post on Jargon vs. Lingo, a link came across my social media feed yesterday featuring an interview with Anand Giridharadas by Mariana Mazzucato, a professor at the Univer…
Nod to Artsjournal.com for posting David Rohde's examination of how viewing new ticket buyers as donors immediately after their attendance experience is extremely detrimental to arts organiz…
Seth Godin made a short post last week about the difference between Jargon vs. Lingo. Its brevity seems to make a clear case, but it leaves a ton of important considerations unsaid. Jargon i…
Grateful hat tip to the Arts and Management Technology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University for calling attention to Blob Opera, a fun little experiment on Google Arts and Culture. It introduce…
So it appears Howard Sherman gets first mention a second day in a row on my blog (not that he doesn't deserve it). He called attention to the fact the production The Lion King on Broadway wa…
So much appreciation to Howard Sherman for his commentary on Twitter last week about a statement by the Broadway League that re-opening Broadway meant the return of a dormant industry. A sho…
Last week Colleen Dilenschneider released recent findings compiled by her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience about audience willingness to return to cultural organizations. By and large, mask …
Last week Drew McManus encouraged arts marketers to break pre-Covid bad habits by renewed his plea to stop using cliched terms like "beloved."Â If you read his post closely you will notic…
So here is something to keep on your radar and consider the long term implications " Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest names in video gaming, donated $25 million to the University …
Equity in funding decisions has become a hot topic of late. Last week on the Americans for the Arts blog, Krista Terrell, Acting President for Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Mec…
During the Covid pandemic there has been a fair bit of introspection and soul searching about arts and culture, the role they should have in people's lives, and the medium through which the …
Hat tip to Vu Le at NonProfitAF for posting a link on social media to an essay on Medium comparing Maslow's Hierarchy of Need to the Blackfeet Nation's similar concept. Maslow had lived …
