2,269 stories by "Joe Patti"
Seth Godin recently made a post warning people against adopting the tactics of those you view as successful as your own. The problem is simple. You don't have a tactics problem. You have …
A professional grant writer had a piece on the Oregon ArtsWatch website where she expressed her disbelief at the Oregon Arts Commission's (OAC) new grant guidelines. But it was all in a good…
Yesterday I received an email letting me know that Colleen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience had released a new post titled Ticket Purchasing Frustrations Are On the Ri…
There was an article on Fast Company this week that discusses customer churn. For the most part the piece is written from the perspective of being a company that has sold another business a …
Earlier this month I saw a news piece about strippers in Minneapolis organizing to form a guild in that city. Stories about people organizing to take collective action and engage in bargaini…
I was recently drawn to the story of Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia opening a retail dancewear store out of their location. They spent $150,000 renovating a space that used …
There is a lot of conversation among arts organizations these days about the need to create connection and show the value of arts organizations to the community. I worked with an artist this…
In my post yesterday I briefly referenced research Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience have released showing that arts and cultural organizations have gained an increa…
Last month, Forbes website hosted an article "6 Things That Arts Leaders Should Do Right Now" It is written in the context of all the funding cuts and policy changes being promulgated on the…
Seth Godin recently made a post that resonated with me. He wrote about how in large organizations and bureaucracies things often fall through the cracks partially because no one is specifica…
To expand a little on yesterday's post about the customer always being right, Seth Godin recently made a post about why people complain. One of the reasons he cites is, of course, to effect …
I have been seeing a number of claims that the full quote ends with "…in matters of taste." As much as I would love that to be true given that retailers have been bludgeoned with the phras…
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…
A number of arts organizations are embracing employees' desire to work from home on either a full or hybrid basis. Making the switch to this sort of work environment, even for some employees…
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…
