Info You Can Use: Standards For Your Website by Joe Patti

Apropos to my post yesterday about standards for arts marketing personnel is today’s a review of arts organizations’ online marketing efforts. Drew McManus unveiled his 2011 Orch…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:17am on November 9, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Arts Marketing Standards by Joe Patti

Thanks to Tim Roberts at Arts Research and Ticketing Service Australia who recently linked to UK Arts Marketing Association’s new Arts Marketing Standards. The standards outline what a…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:32am on November 8, 2011☆⚑

It's Not A Genius Grant. It Might Actually Be Much Better by Joe Patti

I just got around to reading up on some of the new granting program initiatives the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has recently announced. In the interests of correction right from the sta…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:58am on November 3, 2011☆⚑

Engagement Matters In All Aspects Of Your Life by Joe Patti

I came across a number of articles/blog posts about employment this week and have seen a little bit of common thread through them related to arts and creativity. The first was the results of…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:28am on November 2, 2011☆⚑

Arts Instruction Is Critical…As Long As You Volunteer To Do It by Joe Patti

Last week I came across a link to a story about Columbia University students who created a program to provide after school arts experiences in NYC. I absolutely applaud the efforts of these …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:02am on November 1, 2011☆⚑

Can Arts Orgs Play Moneyball With Their Staffs? by Joe Patti

Ever since the movie Moneyball came out, I have been thinking about whether similar system can be applied to the arts. I mean a system by which baseball teams with small budgets were able to…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:22am on October 27, 2011☆⚑

Crowdfunding Become Crowdinvesting? by Joe Patti

In the “stuff you aren’t supposed to do” theme of yesterday’s post, is a piece from Slate about legal restrictions on crowd funding. While thousands of people can don…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:58am on October 26, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Commerciality Doctrine (What The Heck Is That?) by Joe Patti

Hat tip to Non-Profit Law blog for providing the link to Charity Lawyer Ellis Carter’s 2009 post about the Commerciality Doctrine. As you can probably tell from the title of this entry…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:53am on October 25, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Efforts You Can Skip…Maybe by Joe Patti

From time to time I advocate for carefully evaluating the technology tools ones organization uses rather than jumping on what appears to be the hottest new thing everyone is apparently using…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:43am on October 20, 2011☆⚑

Organizational Culture"It's People!!!! by Joe Patti

Rosetta Thurman recently relinked back to an entry she did last year about organizational culture and the importance of not feeling like you are helpless in the face of it. Her basic premise…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 2:58am on October 19, 2011☆⚑

Are We Being Nudged Toward Partnerships by Joe Patti

I have started to wonder if there is going to be an increased emphasis on partnerships and perhaps even mergers in the non-profit arts. I often read about mergers by non-profits outside of t…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:23am on October 18, 2011☆⚑

Remember, You Have A Date With Us by Joe Patti

Okay, a topic seemed to beg me to write on it today– Keeping connected with those who purchase tickets in advance. There were a couple of incidents today that demanded I give some thou…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:27am on October 13, 2011☆⚑

Possible To Cultivate New Funders Motivated By New Mandates? by Joe Patti

You may have read about the report the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference noting the disparity in foundation support for arts o…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:07am on October 12, 2011☆⚑

Are Gov't Caps of Non-Profit Salaries On Horizon? by Joe Patti

The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) notes that the governor of New Jersey has placed salary caps on non profit executives who do business with the state and the governor of New York…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:22am on October 11, 2011☆⚑

Arts For What They Are, As Opposed To What They Are Opposed To by Joe Patti

Back in April, Peter Linett posted about the development of arts organizations during the 50s and 60s, commenting: This was a negative identity, premised on oppositions rather than intrinsic…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:14am on October 6, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Expertise As Entertainment by Joe Patti

So much to do and so little time to do it! I am a little short on time for my post today but I wanted to direct attention to Eric Ziegenhagen’s TEDxMichiganAve talk, Expertise as Enter…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:18am on October 5, 2011☆⚑

The Little Things Are More Engaging Than You Think by Joe Patti

If you are like me, the changes in the economy and people’s expectations about their interactions with the arts probably has you avidly watching for the new theories, techniques and te…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:14am on October 4, 2011☆⚑

Better ROI Than Thou by Joe Patti

The Los Angeles Times has a video of the change over process between the LA Opera productions of Cosi fan Tutte and Eugene Onegin. My first reaction was how cool the magic of theatre is that…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:15am on September 29, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Does Friending A Candidate Endanger Your Non-Profit Status by Joe Patti

The Non Profit Law blog linked to a really great publication put out by the Alliance for Justice that explains whether your online activity might run afoul prohibitions in your 501 (c) 3 sta…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:59am on September 28, 2011☆⚑

Can Devotion To The Arts Be Considered An Addiction? by Joe Patti

Since I tend to travel to China every other year or so, I have started taking a class in Chinese. The class has taken over my life. It used to be that the rule of thumb for college classes w…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:39am on September 27, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Emergency Planning Tools For The Arts by Joe Patti

Two entries today you lucky readers. My list of things to blog on is getting longer than I handle and still have the subjects remain relevant. Technology in the Arts blog had a very cool too…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:39am on September 22, 2011☆⚑

Info You Can Use: Board Action In The Age of Technology by Joe Patti

Hat tip to the Non-Profit Law Blog for providing a link to a piece on the Charity Lawyer blog about board votes by unanimous written consent. An organization upon whose board I sit was recen…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 12:37am on September 22, 2011☆⚑

I Liked Your Ideas Better When We Were Being Repressed by Joe Patti

A recent book review gave a fascinating look at how the value of ideas has declined in post-communist Czechoslovakia. In the wake of the Velvet Revolution, playwright Václav Havel became …

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 4:06am on September 21, 2011☆⚑

Criticizing The Performance, Not The Audience That Enjoyed It by Joe Patti

This weekend I went to see a show with some friends. I enjoyed most of it, except for the lead actor. It was clear to me that while the rest of the actors were invested in the reality of the…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 3:49am on September 20, 2011☆⚑

Creativity To The Left Of Me, Creativity To The Right by Joe Patti

I am just getting around to reading a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Stephen Tepper and George Kuh (subscription required) about the need to get serious about teaching creativ…

SOURCE: Butts In The Seats at 1:28am on September 15, 2011☆⚑