Fund Making Long Term Investment In Performing Arts Orgs by Joe Patti

For a few years now people have been calling for foundations and other funders to provide more long term capital investment in non-profit organizations. The Social Velocity blog has an inter…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:06am on August 31, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: You Tweeted What About Me?! by Joe Patti

So after my post a couple weeks ago about why it is bad in a legal sense to have a restrictive social media policy, I am sure some of you have been wondering under what circumstances you can…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:56am on August 30, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Tools To Chart Your Organizational Impact by Joe Patti

A partnership of GuideStar USA, Independent Sector and BBB Wise Giving Alliance has created a free online tool, Charting Impact, which non-profits and foundations can use to assess themselve…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:53am on August 25, 2011☆⚑

Stand By Your Non-Profit Until The Bitter End by Joe Patti

Interesting piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the responsibilities of non-profit boards to attend to the dissolution of their organizations. Janet Kleinfelter, a deputy attorney g…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:02am on August 24, 2011☆⚑

Not Necessarily 10,000 Hours by Joe Patti

Since the publication of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, the idea that you need 10,000 hours of practice to master a discipline/skill has started to become something of an article of fait…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:56am on August 23, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: The "No Social Media Policy" Social Media Policy by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Rosetta Thurman. To paraphrase Thoreau (or The United States Magazine and Democratic Review), apparently the social media policy which is best governs least. According to a piece …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:19am on August 18, 2011☆⚑

Art=Lemons by Joe Patti

I just finished Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion wherein a group sails from the Philippines to California around the start of the 18th century. Not quite knowing how to get there, the c…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:59am on August 17, 2011☆⚑

Stuff To Ponder: Ticket Office Openness Vs. Security by Joe Patti

Currently I am involved in talking with architects to plan a renovation for our theatre. Part of this will involve razing and moving our ticket office. In the course of other theatre design …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:31am on August 16, 2011☆⚑

Examining Your Non Profit Career by Joe Patti

Rosetta Thurman posted her 15 Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Nonprofit Career Many of her questions dealt with personal ambitions and what image you had of ideal situations. T…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:11am on August 11, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Correct Organization Of Personnel Files by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Emily Chan at Non Profit Law blog for sharing a link to a Blue Avocado piece on how personnel files should be maintained. More specifically, what information should not be stored …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:01am on August 10, 2011☆⚑

Goodwill Benefits Of The Arts by Joe Patti

In the course of this blog I have posted about great customer service experiences I have encountered. I have also mentioned some superlative performances to which I have been witness. Never …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:17am on August 9, 2011☆⚑

Late To The Confession by Joe Patti

I have only just gotten around to following up on my bookmark of John Killacky’s Regrets of A Former Arts Funder. If you hadn’t read it when it came out in late June, Killacky re…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:43am on August 4, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Acknowledging The Arts Experience by Joe Patti

Welcome readers of You’ve Cott Mail and myriad other places. I appreciate your interest in the blog and yesterday’s entry about speaking more honestly about how an arts experienc…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:18am on August 3, 2011☆⚑

Yeah, Sometimes It IS Boring by Joe Patti

I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to post about today, but Adam Thurman at Mission Paradox decided me with his post today about reducing the opportunities for audiences to be anxiou…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:19am on August 2, 2011☆⚑

Funding The In Between Places by Joe Patti

Scott Walters over at Theatre Ideas has been looking at how the National Endowment for the Arts distributed funds for its “Our Town” grant program. In the last three posts on the…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:16am on July 28, 2011☆⚑

Is It The Mastery Of The Medium Or The Idea That Makes Good Art by Joe Patti

Daniel Grant had a piece on the Huffington Post about a new trend in visual arts M.F.A. programs where training is tailored to students’ particular interests. He references the program…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:52am on July 27, 2011☆⚑

My Butt Among The Seats by Joe Patti

Thanks to the hard work of Inside the Arts mother hen, Drew McManus, Butts in the Seats has a new look. And if I can figure out how to fully exploit some of the new features I see on the new…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:00am on July 26, 2011☆⚑