Archives
- 2012.01.24: A recurring chrysalis
- 2012.01.20: SOPA and PIPA untangled
- 2012.01.18: The rise of the 'edge-pert'
- 2012.01.06: Power, Influence, and Performing Arts
- 2012.01.05: Sustaining, breakout, and disruptive innovation
- 2011.12.08: If you can't get on the radio, get in a cab
- 2011.12.07: Are you ready? Honestly, are you?
- 2011.12.05: Active culture
- 2011.12.02: Dance v. Powerpoint (advantage: dance)
- 2011.11.14: A new invocation
- 2011.11.10: Mobile meets local, get used to it
- 2011.11.09: The arts at a crossroads...so says Ben Cameron
- 2011.11.04: Zero-based budgeting, on steroids
- 2011.10.31: Artists in search of a 'liquidity event'
- 2011.10.26: Participatory practice in the arts
- 2011.10.24: Government. Arts. Agency.
- 2011.10.07: Relative wealth
- 2011.10.04: Striving to be comment-worthy
- 2011.09.29: Discovering music not by content, but by mood
- 2011.09.28: Tiny interventions
- 2011.09.26: Wanted: 'Guardian ad litem' for cultural facilities
- 2011.09.16: Art, controversy, and community
- 2011.09.15: Making creative places
- 2011.09.13: The shifting line between public and private
- 2011.09.09: Building a Better Business Model
- 2011.08.30: Engagement vs. distraction
- 2011.08.26: Traditions of the calling
- 2011.08.25: Of mental models and doorknobs
- 2011.08.24: The illusion of asymmetric insight
- 2011.08.23: Museum as business model
- 2011.08.22: Engaging communities
- 2011.08.19: Job function trading cards, bonus edition
- 2011.08.18: Job function trading cards
- 2011.08.16: Invocation and allocation
- 2011.08.15: Collaboration: Fact v. Theory
- 2011.07.06: Consider it a summer hiatus
- 2011.06.14: Becoming one of the 100
- 2011.06.07: On profits, proliferation, and piracy
- 2011.06.03: The art of the (digital) interface
- 2011.05.31: Parsing capital
- 2011.05.18: Panera's social venture
- 2011.05.17: Blogs upon blogs about business models
- 2011.05.12: The cloud knows what you like, and where you are
- 2011.05.06: Wisconsin, unplugged
- 2011.05.04: Open Source Ticketing, 1.0
- 2011.05.03: Me on TV...okay, BigTen TV, but still
- 2011.04.28: Last weeks of classes make Andrew a dull boy
- 2011.04.21: Upcoming Chat: The Arts and the Business Model
- 2011.04.20: Immovable object meets unstoppable force
- 2011.04.18: An Ode to Tax Day
- 2011.04.11: The Expressive Energy Grid
- 2011.04.01: Talking together about talking together
- 2011.03.31: Three core approaches to philanthropy
- 2011.03.30: After you make the thing, you have to mediate it into the world
- 2011.03.23: Taking online conversations to scale
- 2011.03.22: Sharemilking in the arts
- 2011.03.11: A new species of musical device
- 2011.03.09: The third dimension of arts entrepreneurship
- 2011.03.08: A filmmaker discovers the presenting industry
- 2011.03.07: The Art of the Business Model
- 2011.03.02: An Oxymoron's Guide to Arts Management
- 2011.02.28: Is 'arts entrepreneurship' training really just career prep?
- 2011.02.23: Measuring Arts Market Sustainability
- 2011.02.17: Merit vs. math
- 2011.02.10: Rethinking risk at a music festival
- 2011.02.07: Catch me if you can
- 2011.02.04: Bobby McFerrin on the problem with 'performance'
- 2011.02.03: Need innovation and motivation? Start a prize!
- 2011.02.01: The fewer, the thinner
- 2011.01.28: Visualizing the networked nonprofit
- 2011.01.26: Back to business models
- 2011.01.25: The National Arts Index, recession edition
- 2011.01.24: The rise of 'car-chitecture'?
- 2011.01.13: Ten trends of 20-somethings
- 2011.01.11: Cautiously pessimistic
- 2011.01.06: Heading to Arts Presenters in NYC
- 2010.12.17: See you next year
- 2010.12.10: Learning the tricks of the retail trade
- 2010.12.09: The fine art of self destruction
- 2010.12.07: Join me for an on-line chat on Wednesday
- 2010.12.02: Is dynamic pricing a wolf in sheep's clothing?
- 2010.12.01: The problem with process
- 2010.11.16: Creative in Oklahoma
- 2010.11.12: Everything old is...still old, actually
- 2010.11.11: How our brains build our biographies
- 2010.11.08: The magic and challenge of 'sunk costs'
- 2010.10.29: Connecting culture and agriculture
- 2010.10.28: Sneaker Medici
- 2010.10.26: Farewell to the Walkman
- 2010.10.20: Silos, waiting to matter
- 2010.10.19: Living the pivot
- 2010.10.18: Under-capitalized and oversupplied
- 2010.10.17: What the heck is 'capital'?
- 2010.10.14: Cost and creativity
- 2010.10.12: Preservation v. Protection
- 2010.10.11: Virtual and viral, new approaches to public art
- 2010.10.07: Power (through plastic) to the people
- 2010.09.30: Weak ties and social change
- 2010.09.29: Tax status, schmax status
- 2010.09.24: Describing the healthy community
- 2010.09.22: On the arts getting lost, and found again
- 2010.09.21: The power network, visualized
- 2010.09.20: Redefining service
- 2010.09.15: Creative Placemaking
- 2010.09.13: The tensions of change
- 2010.09.10: Of bonds and stadiums (and cultural facilities)
- 2010.09.02: What's an organization for?
- 2010.08.31: The myth of the artist in a mash-up world
- 2010.08.26: Economies of Life
- 2010.08.19: Are you ready for Facebook Places?
- 2010.08.18: Connecting the dots, again
- 2010.08.17: One business model to rule them all
- 2010.08.16: Art, disease, and economics
- 2010.07.14: Happy Birthday Blog
- 2010.06.16: Few and far between
- 2010.06.09: Let's get ready to mingle
- 2010.06.03: Tax-status agnostic
- 2010.06.02: Clara Miller's Four Horsemen
- 2010.05.27: Risk homeostasis
- 2010.05.25: I seem to have misplaced $107,850
- 2010.05.24: Preparing the cultural entrepreneur
- 2010.05.17: 'Place' makes a comeback
- 2010.05.11: The Conference Circuit
- 2010.04.30: The downside of interconnection
- 2010.04.20: The paradoxes of leadership
- 2010.04.19: Retaining the illusion of full audience attention
- 2010.04.14: Bill Ivey on arts policy, the Obama transition, and expressive life
- 2010.04.13: Net Present Joy (NPJ)
- 2010.04.12: More metrics for artistic success
- 2010.04.09: Student loan forgiveness for the arts
- 2010.04.06: What happens when there are more writers than readers?
- 2010.04.05: The rise of the API
- 2010.03.30: Spring Break...
- 2010.03.26: A futures market for the movies
- 2010.03.24: The White House wants your copyright thoughts...today...
- 2010.03.23: Separate together - the virtual choir
- 2010.03.12: Attempting to change the game
- 2010.03.11: Is new technology a complement or supplement to real-world interaction?
- 2010.03.08: Generosity and curiosity
- 2010.03.04: Unbundling the arts organization
- 2010.03.03: Art. It's what's inside. Redux.
- 2010.03.02: Great answers to bad questions
- 2010.03.01: Global perspectives
- 2010.02.23: Help us edit this Salzburg draft!
- 2010.02.19: Blending professional and amateur
- 2010.02.16: Kinda like Netflix, only for live theater
- 2010.02.12: On-line chat about the MBA in Arts Administration
- 2010.02.08: Everyone's a critic, or collector, or joiner, or...
- 2010.02.05: My Maine events
- 2010.02.04: The cumulative value of stories
- 2010.02.02: A useful question about nonprofit status
- 2010.01.25: Rumination on ''expressive life''
- 2010.01.22: Broken
- 2010.01.21: The Arts Ripple Effect
- 2010.01.20: Artists, businesses, and other mythological beasts
- 2010.01.15: I'll be back eventually...
- 2010.01.07: Off to NYC
- 2010.01.06: Free tools for teaching (and talking)
- 2010.01.04: When the money gets tight, the moneyed get metrics
- 2009.12.23: Off for the holidays
- 2009.12.18: Considering the Arts Administration degree
- 2009.12.16: The intention economy
- 2009.12.15: Building the right metaphor
- 2009.12.10: The new convening
- 2009.12.07: A chat with ArtsJournal's Doug McLennan
- 2009.12.03: Welcoming Doug McLennan
- 2009.12.02: More on thinning the nonprofit herd
- 2009.11.24: A virtual museum world tour
- 2009.11.23: Artist process as public spectacle?
- 2009.11.20: Cultural Workforce Forum
- 2009.11.18: My chat with Bill Ivey
- 2009.11.16: Rent, buy, build, or borrow
- 2009.11.13: Is our fundraising writing wrong?
- 2009.11.10: Arts policy, reconsidered
- 2009.11.06: Oh, the power(lessness), the absolute power(lessness)
- 2009.11.04: What if the 'new normal' is really the original normal?
- 2009.11.02: Thoughts on the 'portfolio career'
- 2009.10.30: An artist's alternative to material wealth
- 2009.10.28: Signs that you've stayed too long at the party
- 2009.10.27: Of management metaphor and myth
- 2009.10.26: The challenge of blending physical business with on-line
- 2009.10.22: Blogging the GIA
- 2009.10.21: Rethinking arts economies and arts exchange
- 2009.10.20: Calling all emergent leaders
- 2009.10.14: Personal communications...in bulk
- 2009.10.13: Getting beyond the left-brain/right-brain debate
- 2009.10.07: Collaboration is a muscle
- 2009.10.05: Project Audience
- 2009.10.02: Rethinking arts journalism...LIVE!
- 2009.09.30: The challenge (and opportunity) of nonprofit debt
- 2009.09.29: Boston Foundation retools and refocuses
- 2009.09.25: My chat with Elizabeth Streb
- 2009.09.24: Elizabeth Streb's new rules of conduct
- 2009.09.22: Smashing assumptions about arts venues
- 2009.09.21: Think you're a content provider? Think again.
- 2009.09.09: Podcasting about teaching about art and business
- 2009.09.08: Art as business as art
- 2009.08.31: Focusing on the day job
- 2009.08.25: First reflections on the Arts in Crisis whistle stop
- 2009.08.24: A portrait of the artist on-line
- 2009.08.21: Channeling your questions to Michael Kaiser
- 2009.08.20: 1002nd Entry
- 2009.08.19: The father of invention
- 2009.08.17: Eyes on the Artprize
- 2009.08.14: When a rolling average meets a cliff
- 2009.08.13: Graphing the average day
- 2009.08.11: Thinking like a designer
- 2009.08.10: Engaging audiences...the report
- 2009.07.30: Activating a building's monolithic skin
- 2009.07.27: Slow money
- 2009.07.24: Concert Companion...on the cheap
- 2009.07.23: Risk and reward
- 2009.07.22: Broad strokes about the arts business
- 2009.07.20: Can you catch up by cutting back?
- 2009.07.17: Correlation in the choral nation
- 2009.07.16: What, exactly, do you sell?
- 2009.07.15: Going hyper-local in a global world
- 2009.07.14: Look who's six!
- 2009.07.06: On the road, off the clock
- 2009.06.30: Truth, beauty, trust
- 2009.06.29: Considering the Creative Ecology
- 2009.06.23: A glimpse inside the Obama arts policy
- 2009.06.19: Of boards, bungles, and the two-headed beast
- 2009.06.18: Amateur vs. professional
- 2009.06.17: The evolving hybrids in corporate structure
- 2009.06.16: The fewer, the older
- 2009.06.11: Speaking in Austin, Texas
- 2009.06.10: Cutting back around the globe
- 2009.06.09: Multiple personalities
- 2009.06.04: Yes, Virginia, you already have a business model
- 2009.06.03: A different kind of cultural infrastructure
- 2009.06.02: Algorithm as editor, curator, or benevolent dictator
- 2009.06.01: Pay attention...or not
- 2009.05.29: The new flow
- 2009.05.28: Data, data, everywhere
- 2009.05.26: The corporation as shape-shifter
- 2009.05.21: Towards an artistic theory of everything
- 2009.05.20: The minimal web site
- 2009.05.18: Is dynamic pricing in your future?
- 2009.05.15: The TED Commandments
- 2009.05.13: Operas captured in 140 characters (or less)
- 2009.05.12: On Facebook and mortality
- 2009.05.11: Assessing Lincoln Center
- 2009.05.08: Business planning meets mixed-media
- 2009.05.07: The urge to merge
- 2009.05.06: Does this make me a twitterer or just a twit?
- 2009.05.05: Nonprofit economics
- 2009.05.04: Credit where credit is due
- 2009.04.30: Glocalizing Grand Rapids
- 2009.04.28: From recruitment to retention
- 2009.04.27: Our capacity for collective action
- 2009.04.24: Opening wounds to heal them
- 2009.04.23: Facebook and philanthropy
- 2009.04.22: Ephemeral architecture
- 2009.04.21: Renegotiation
- 2009.04.15: From search to social
- 2009.04.14: Handel's financial opus
- 2009.04.09: What I learned in Philly
- 2009.04.07: Duck and cover...but don't change
- 2009.04.02: In Philly
- 2009.04.01: The iLibrary of iCongress
- 2009.03.31: What if I WANT to be a passive audience?
- 2009.03.30: Benchmarking engagement
- 2009.03.19: Remix, remash, remarkable
- 2009.03.18: Capacities for imaginative learning
- 2009.03.17: Is Obama combining arts policy and disability policy?
- 2009.03.16: Making molehills out of cliffs
- 2009.03.13: Is a conservatory a professional school?
- 2009.03.11: Somewhere between profit and nonprofit
- 2009.03.10: The impact of social media on social interaction
- 2009.03.05: Art as collateral
- 2009.03.04: Stimulus for the brain and the bottom line
- 2009.02.27: One remarkable ''Sistema''...
- 2009.02.26: What can we learn from the 'netbook'?
- 2009.02.24: The dark side of participation
- 2009.02.16: Shrubs and social systems
- 2009.02.13: Of art and innovation
- 2009.02.12: Following crumb trails
- 2009.02.10: Do arts jobs count as jobs?
- 2009.02.09: The pros and perils of the embedded institution
- 2009.02.06: Feels like we all need a happy distraction
- 2009.02.05: Diving into oceans, and into art
- 2009.02.04: Arts in Crisis: Elements of scale
- 2009.02.02: Stimulus or pork byproduct?
- 2009.01.30: The 'black swan' tips for living
- 2009.01.29: Circle of life
- 2009.01.27: Me, in 20 slides
- 2009.01.26: The perverse incentive
- 2009.01.23: Expression and environment
- 2009.01.22: The sentinal event
- 2009.01.21: Three generations
- 2009.01.09: Caution or conviction?
- 2009.01.08: Off to Arts Presenters
- 2009.01.07: The newspaper as politburo?
- 2009.01.06: Strategically free
- 2009.01.05: Little bridges
- 2008.12.29: This must be my month off
- 2008.12.16: I know, I know
- 2008.12.05: Cuts that leave a mark
- 2008.12.04: The distributed symphony
- 2008.12.02: Defining the goal, defending the essential
- 2008.12.01: Stuff I said in Dublin
- 2008.11.25: The Metaphors We Manage By
- 2008.11.24: Guinness and whisky, but first a little snooze
- 2008.11.18: Wanna get to Carnegie Hall? Got 10,000 hours?
- 2008.11.13: Enabling and rewarding your critics
- 2008.11.12: Shacking up
- 2008.11.10: Learning to speak and listen...
- 2008.11.05: Policy to come?
- 2008.11.04: Expertise vs. control
- 2008.10.30: Diversify
- 2008.10.29: My world tour (limited stops)
- 2008.10.28: The language of value
- 2008.10.24: A new anthem for my peeps
- 2008.10.23: Philanthropy in economic hard times
- 2008.10.22: The audience around us
- 2008.10.21: Walking the boundaries
- 2008.10.10: Duck and cover
- 2008.10.07: The university as arts patron
- 2008.10.06: The candidates and the arts
- 2008.10.01: Inverting the traditional web strategy
- 2008.09.30: Embedding...not just for journalists anymore
- 2008.09.29: The cash (and consequences) of cultural tax districts
- 2008.09.25: Forecasting the future by ''living'' it out loud
- 2008.09.24: Constructing the concert experience
- 2008.09.23: There's good money in bungee-cord ballet
- 2008.09.22: Good concept, bad context
- 2008.09.19: Good man gone
- 2008.09.17: More cowbell
- 2008.09.15: An audience of three billion
- 2008.09.10: Trumped by sports...again
- 2008.09.09: You are what you listen to
- 2008.09.08: Community-funded journalism
- 2008.09.05: So small, so big
- 2008.09.04: What are the ''proxy interests'' of your potential audience?
- 2008.09.03: Even the ''offline'' world is ''online''
- 2008.09.02: Cash flow, or lack thereof
- 2008.08.29: Three questions for the CEO candidate
- 2008.08.28: Seeking social currency
- 2008.08.27: Orchestra concert as carnival ride
- 2008.08.26: The new 990 is here! The new 990 is here!
- 2008.08.25: The great transfer of wealth...or not
- 2008.08.22: The power, the absolute power
- 2008.08.21: Horses for courses...or mopeds or trucks or sneakers
- 2008.08.20: How many children left behind?
- 2008.08.19: Living in a cloud
- 2008.08.18: Casting a design eye on social issues
- 2008.08.12: Slicing and dicing your customers and donors
- 2008.08.11: Oozing back into business
- 2008.07.14: Look who's five!
- 2008.07.01: An open source PSA
- 2008.06.30: July hiatus
- 2008.06.27: Not aloof and detached, but deeply, deeply human
- 2008.06.26: A thought to chew on
- 2008.06.24: Americans, as it turns out, are for the arts
- 2008.06.18: Posting results, pondering impact
- 2008.06.17: Changing the players, and the game
- 2008.06.13: Who's in, who's out?
- 2008.06.11: Other than the large, blue, geodesic bear
- 2008.06.10: Fixed seating vs. flexible space
- 2008.06.04: Prepping for Denver
- 2008.06.02: Is the performing arts industry designed to learn?
- 2008.05.29: How about a movable performing arts center?
- 2008.05.28: Phase shift
- 2008.05.23: Do music degree programs create professional musicians?
- 2008.05.22: Mass creativity
- 2008.05.20: Fail early, fail often
- 2008.05.15: One letter, big difference
- 2008.05.14: You are here
- 2008.05.13: Even when the big-boned lady sings, it ain't over
- 2008.05.12: Attendance vs. engagement
- 2008.05.09: Visualizing the connections
- 2008.05.08: Creating space for play
- 2008.05.07: Because art *is* context
- 2008.05.01: Three words, three problems
- 2008.04.30: Still digging out...
- 2008.04.21: Focusing energy off-line
- 2008.04.17: In thanks and praise to Fan Taylor
- 2008.04.16: Bruce Sterling on the future of everything
- 2008.04.15: Removing one more reason for institutions
- 2008.04.14: Progressive disclosure
- 2008.04.11: On recession and expression
- 2008.04.10: Comic distractions for a Thursday morning
- 2008.04.09: Who owns the idea of what the campus means?
- 2008.04.08: What's your U-Index?
- 2008.04.07: Old product, new sales channel
- 2008.04.04: The difference between ''feeling'' and reality
- 2008.04.03: ''Business-like'' is not the problem
- 2008.04.01: What I know about you
- 2008.03.31: The geography and demography of dating
- 2008.03.28: Considering a Creative Scotland
- 2008.03.27: Donors *already* have voting rights
- 2008.03.26: What does your brand sound like?
- 2008.03.25: A new report on orchestral economics
- 2008.03.24: The dull but necessary craft
- 2008.03.17: The 'we' inside of me
- 2008.03.14: When music 'wants to be free,' charge for something else
- 2008.03.13: The self-organizing audience
- 2008.03.12: Curating our own space
- 2008.03.11: Nonprofit retention and vacancy
- 2008.03.07: GyPSiis and caravanserai
- 2008.03.05: Invoking the 'C' word with a vengeance
- 2008.03.04: Some arts leaders could use this kind of play
- 2008.03.03: The positive power of ignorance
- 2008.02.29: The all-Google office?
- 2008.02.28: When do you serve your mission by closing your doors?
- 2008.02.27: Bringing a new eye to facility design
- 2008.02.22: A little vision of collective meaning
- 2008.02.20: Sort of like PowerPoint haiku
- 2008.02.19: Illiterate or hyperliterate? It depends on how you count
- 2008.02.14: Balancing the masses and the elite
- 2008.02.13: Allocating that complex asset, the museum collection
- 2008.02.12: Getting in our own way
- 2008.02.11: Thanks to Microsoft, I'm a better person...
- 2008.02.08: Agent or manager...the distinction blurs
- 2008.02.07: Does anyone listen to lyrics?
- 2008.02.06: More on authenticity
- 2008.02.05: What's ''authentic''?
- 2008.01.31: For another $30 million, you get cupholders
- 2008.01.30: Greetings from South Africa (aka, Wisconsin)
- 2008.01.22: Systematizing innovation, or the future of the B-School
- 2008.01.16: Curating impact through artists
- 2008.01.15: Your customer doesn't always care
- 2008.01.14: Rules of engagement
- 2008.01.11: Presenters to the left of me, presenters to the right of me
- 2008.01.09: Way beyond butts in seats
- 2008.01.08: Slicing the pie horizontally
- 2008.01.07: Learning web basics without looking stupid
- 2008.01.04: Learning how we learn
- 2008.01.03: The continuing rise of contrivance
- 2007.12.13: Here's what our production line looks like
- 2007.12.12: Making arguments rather than complaints
- 2007.12.10: When even local isn't local anymore
- 2007.12.06: A ruckus on rankings
- 2007.12.05: Why we should care about Guitar Hero
- 2007.12.04: Support the contents or the box?
- 2007.11.27: Easily distracted
- 2007.11.19: Dancing at the edge of nonprofit
- 2007.11.16: Rethinking the audience chamber
- 2007.11.14: Ben Cameron on ''financial masochism''
- 2007.11.12: For those about to rock
- 2007.11.09: Talk about transparent!
- 2007.11.08: Where law meets creative expression
- 2007.11.06: Pre-natal brand preference?
- 2007.11.05: Who gives the gift, and who gets the gift?
- 2007.11.01: Digging into arts administration education
- 2007.10.31: A major matrix
- 2007.10.30: Ten tips for new theater buildings
- 2007.10.29: A naming gift without the name
- 2007.10.22: Facts with a human face
- 2007.10.18: Preserving and changing at the same time
- 2007.10.17: Then I must be intangibly wealthy
- 2007.10.15: Your ticket price is merely the starting offer
- 2007.10.12: An new (epic) stage of life
- 2007.10.11: What interns do vs. what interns want to do
- 2007.10.10: Do these spreadsheets make my assets look big?
- 2007.10.09: An unpleasant argument
- 2007.10.05: Virtual dishes are more fun to clean
- 2007.10.04: A mini manifesto (addendum)
- 2007.10.02: I think the alien gives it away
- 2007.10.01: It's the invisible structures that get you
- 2007.09.28: Strategy as storytelling
- 2007.09.25: We manage what we measure, so let's measure what we value
- 2007.09.24: What is scientific literacy? An essay contest helps decide
- 2007.09.21: A Friday diversion
- 2007.09.20: Evolution vs. adaptation vs. ultimate good
- 2007.09.19: Faking authenticity
- 2007.09.18: At least one indicator changing in our favor
- 2007.09.14: Rethinking city transformation
- 2007.09.13: Next comes free agency
- 2007.09.12: Okay, so how about a 'fantasy orchestra' league?
- 2007.09.11: On price and value
- 2007.09.06: Managing the evidence...literally
- 2007.09.05: A mini manifesto
- 2007.08.15: My little crisis chrysalis
- 2007.07.06: Measuring multiple impacts
- 2007.07.05: Lingering on leisure
- 2007.06.29: Dialing back for the summer
- 2007.06.27: But I still need a grant in my FIRST life
- 2007.06.21: Nice work if you can get it (and not be indicted)
- 2007.06.20: Turns out you never owned the recording anyway
- 2007.06.18: Working to REDUCE one impact of the arts
- 2007.06.15: Engaging art, engaging audiences
- 2007.06.13: Defining (or redefining) the amateur
- 2007.06.11: Welcome to my world
- 2007.06.07: What's not to love about amateurs?
- 2007.06.05: How to respond to global commerce? Be more local.
- 2007.06.04: The interplay of business and the arts
- 2007.06.01: To change, or not to change
- 2007.05.30: ''Leisure Class'' or ''Cheap and Easy''?
- 2007.05.29: Time-wasting money-losers, aka charity events
- 2007.05.24: The need for narrative
- 2007.05.23: Fractured and seamless, alone and connected
- 2007.05.21: Reconsidering leisure time
- 2007.05.09: Into the fire...literally
- 2007.05.04: Choosing not to be active
- 2007.05.02: How many users are actually generating content?
- 2007.05.01: Oh, so much to do...
- 2007.04.27: The five meanings of ''scale''
- 2007.04.26: Defining the future of Americans for the Arts
- 2007.04.25: Chasing the fountain of youth
- 2007.04.24: Quiet Junior, mommy and daddy are talking
- 2007.04.18: Time to rethink the professional arts conference
- 2007.04.17: Button by button, thread by thread
- 2007.04.16: Same basket, fewer eggs
- 2007.04.13: Same as it ever was
- 2007.04.12: Planning the creative city
- 2007.04.10: What do markets ''feel'' like?
- 2007.04.09: Creativity ain't what it used to be (and never was)
- 2007.03.23: Off for the week (or more)
- 2007.03.21: Measuring leisure time
- 2007.03.20: Portrait of the artist's workspace
- 2007.03.19: Creative, expressive, connected, remembered
- 2007.03.16: Like ''La Boheme,'' but with money
- 2007.03.14: Making the entire planet a toy
- 2007.03.13: One symphony's dance with capital markets
- 2007.03.12: MacDowell Redux: Serving artists DOES serve the public good
- 2007.03.08: Experiments in distributed financing
- 2007.03.06: Your income statement will tell you what you sell
- 2007.03.05: I suppose it's a form of customer service
- 2007.03.01: Artists crossing over (no, not into the afterlife)
- 2007.02.28: Stumbling towards ecstasy
- 2007.02.27: Managing yield, balancing guilt
- 2007.02.21: Staying exempt
- 2007.02.20: Sunday in the Park with Cans
- 2007.02.16: Revisiting a mission shift
- 2007.02.15: Buddhist Economics
- 2007.02.14: Perhaps the Luddites had a point
- 2007.02.13: Enabling your fans, connecting their friends
- 2007.02.12: Building awareness and conversation, one restroom stall at a time
- 2007.02.09: Different players, familiar tune
- 2007.02.08: Buying culture in bulk
- 2007.02.07: To present or to preserve
- 2007.02.05: Seeing the big ideas
- 2007.01.30: Wandering elsewhere
- 2007.01.26: Don't tell the marketing department
- 2007.01.25: None of us is as dumb as all of us
- 2007.01.24: Should PR come in one voice, or a thousand?
- 2007.01.23: Glazed and confused
- 2007.01.22: The smartest nonprofits online
- 2007.01.19: Audio on Arts Presenters
- 2007.01.17: Preserving the ethnosphere
- 2007.01.16: Getting ready for the road
- 2007.01.12: The prognosis on classical music
- 2007.01.11: Sophomore slump
- 2007.01.10: The key to happiness? Low expectations.
- 2007.01.08: Measuring cultural vitality
- 2007.01.05: A shot across the bow
- 2007.01.04: Rethinking a window to the world
- 2007.01.03: Reclaiming 'culture'
- 2007.01.02: The For-Profit Charity
- 2006.12.18: Time for a break...
- 2006.12.13: Creative connections as practical necessity
- 2006.12.12: Fostering the healthy artist
- 2006.12.07: Watching your word-of-mouth
- 2006.12.06: Generation C(ontent), Generation C(ash)
- 2006.12.05: Hercules, Atlas, Sisyphus, Garland, Rooney
- 2006.12.04: When does a work of art begin?
- 2006.11.30: A good prospect for a (virtual) board member, perhaps
- 2006.11.29: The non-representative fundraising photo (that works)
- 2006.11.27: More ways to express your public self
- 2006.11.22: If we want to measure the arts, we'll need new metrics
- 2006.11.21: Does 'smart business' trump good governance?
- 2006.11.17: Separate and connected...like a giant fungus
- 2006.11.16: Haggling vs. higher ground
- 2006.11.14: Architecture of value, part deux
- 2006.11.09: Exploring the architecture of value
- 2006.11.07: Encouraging co-authorship
- 2006.11.06: Encouraging the active audience
- 2006.11.03: I'll be back...
- 2006.10.30: The rise of the active audience
- 2006.10.24: The absentee landlord
- 2006.10.20: Keeping an eye on dashboards
- 2006.10.18: The line-item nonprofit
- 2006.10.16: Extreme commuters
- 2006.10.13: So let's rename ''classical'' as ''authentic retro-ambient''
- 2006.10.11: Copyright in verse
- 2006.10.10: What the heck is 'cultural policy' anyway?
- 2006.10.09: Scatter maps for fun and profit
- 2006.10.05: Is Andrew overbooked?
- 2006.10.03: Dinosaur or phoenix?
- 2006.10.02: Is culture overbuilt?
- 2006.09.29: Transformational, transactional, and tacit
- 2006.09.28: Painting with a broader corporate palette
- 2006.09.27: One more way to map your world
- 2006.09.26: Only half an argument
- 2006.09.20: Wish I were here
- 2006.09.20: Three (short) detours back to public value
- 2006.09.18: A connector's connector
- 2006.09.15: Off to Alaska
- 2006.09.14: Fan Taylor's code of excellence
- 2006.09.12: Live vs. mediated
- 2006.09.11: Witness and Response
- 2006.09.08: Managing the magic list
- 2006.09.07: Anticipation and memory
- 2006.09.05: A weblog-worthy quote
- 2006.09.01: The promise of portable video
- 2006.08.30: Going to scale without falling to pieces
- 2006.08.29: An early holiday gift from the U.S. Census
- 2006.08.28: It turns out EVERYBODY wants to be flexible
- 2006.08.25: Keeping an eye on the kitty
- 2006.08.24: Living a different life
- 2006.08.23: Better learning through comics
- 2006.08.21: Batting 600
- 2006.08.17: Pandora's music box
- 2006.08.16: The path to California's $500 million for arts education
- 2006.08.15: Help wanted
- 2006.08.14: Mission, Models, and Money
- 2006.08.11: Sharing the power
- 2006.08.09: Understanding and fulfilling the presenter's contract
- 2006.08.08: Designed to dissolve
- 2006.08.07: But how do you REALLY feel about ballet?
- 2006.08.04: Of death and dying
- 2006.08.02: Thinning the nonprofit arts herd
- 2006.08.01: What makes a museum?
- 2006.07.31: Act like a business? Why aim so low?
- 2006.07.24: Off again
- 2006.07.19: The longer narrative on the ''long tail''
- 2006.07.17: Escaping Atlanta
- 2006.07.14: The Artful Manager turns three
- 2006.07.13: Striving for clarity, watching for jargon
- 2006.07.12: Content and commerce
- 2006.07.11: The art of data visualization
- 2006.07.10: Jugglers wanted
- 2006.07.07: Lawsuits and Lion King
- 2006.07.06: Growing out of creativity
- 2006.06.26: Off for the week (and then some)
- 2006.06.23: A massive dose of perspective
- 2006.06.20: Two questions worth asking
- 2006.06.19: Defining success
- 2006.06.16: What might nonprofits looks like in 2016?
- 2006.06.14: A bit too ubiquitous
- 2006.06.13: Calling the question
- 2006.06.12: Opera vs. cheese
- 2006.06.09: Of mission and motion
- 2006.06.07: Here comes ''crowdsourcing''
- 2006.06.06: Gift or purchase?
- 2006.06.05: Conversations to come
- 2006.06.02: To be cool, or not to be
- 2006.05.31: Museums and the rights of publicity
- 2006.05.30: Choreographing public space
- 2006.05.26: Americans for the Arts panel
- 2006.05.23: Affective forecasting
- 2006.05.22: Separating 'generic' and 'expected' from 'augmented'
- 2006.05.19: Ping
- 2006.05.16: Two conversations worth a moment
- 2006.05.15: Clarity vs. Chatter
- 2006.05.08: I need a week
- 2006.05.04: The art of letting go
- 2006.05.02: In praise of the walkable city, in memory of Jane Jacobs
- 2006.05.01: Setting literature free
- 2006.04.28: Museums and rain forests and chocolates (oh my)
- 2006.04.27: The math of book profits (or loss)
- 2006.04.26: How can a hamburger have more friends than I do?
- 2006.04.25: Back in business
- 2006.04.21: Seeking clarity
- 2006.04.20: On the road to Toronto
- 2006.04.18: Moving forward in Kansas City
- 2006.04.17: Counting what counts
- 2006.04.13: Copyright and heritage
- 2006.04.11: Who owns culture?
- 2006.04.10: The power of flaws
- 2006.04.06: Prison, purgatory, or playground
- 2006.04.04: Being really, really, really committed to the art
- 2006.04.03: The art of the start
- 2006.03.31: Music and Media
- 2006.03.29: The board-of-directors disconnect
- 2006.03.28: The physics of friendship
- 2006.03.27: Access vs. excellence
- 2006.03.24: Measuring progress in ''smiles per hour''
- 2006.03.22: And you thought you had a youth marketing problem
- 2006.03.21: Feeling the squeeze
- 2006.03.20: Economic impact: strike two
- 2006.03.16: What does a ''great organization'' look like?
- 2006.03.15: The next generation
- 2006.03.13: Knowing your audience, knowing your stuff
- 2006.03.09: Do we ''age into'' arts attendance?
- 2006.03.08: Attracting the 'young and the restless'
- 2006.03.07: To be of use
- 2006.03.06: Martinis and art, shaken and stirred
- 2006.03.02: John Kani and the spirit of UBUNTU
- 2006.03.01: Sandow on classical music...again
- 2006.02.28: Just when you thought you had this web thing down
- 2006.02.27: Rethinking the arts ecology through health care
- 2006.02.23: Programming by the numbers
- 2006.02.22: Mapping 100 years of music as subway stops
- 2006.02.21: The practical approach to board unity
- 2006.02.20: A powerful study on aging and the arts
- 2006.02.16: Inviting the elephant into the room
- 2006.02.15: Beyond Richard Florida
- 2006.02.14: Churn, baby, churn
- 2006.02.13: "Word of mouth" on steroids
- 2006.02.06: I'm off this week
- 2006.02.03: Stuff I wish I'd said
- 2006.02.02: Rethinking the business card
- 2006.01.31: Is an audience a crowd of individuals, or a gathering of groups?
- 2006.01.30: Mergers and inquisitions
- 2006.01.27: Behind the scenes
- 2006.01.26: Interview for Artsline
- 2006.01.26: Curating your own life soundtrack
- 2006.01.25: Ecological mission vs. insular alliance
- 2006.01.24: Critical uncertainties
- 2006.01.19: Face-time in NYC
- 2006.01.18: 500 Posts
- 2006.01.17: Finding new ways to find things
- 2006.01.16: Traveling to NYC
- 2006.01.13: If you build it...well, you know
- 2006.01.12: First cocooning, then hiving, and now 'insperiences'
- 2006.01.11: Instead of asking for money, let's just make our own
- 2006.01.10: Heritage vs. the marketplace (the marketplace wins)
- 2006.01.09: How to post resources to the web
- 2006.01.06: Why you should continue to date me
- 2006.01.05: The potential of sense-making research
- 2006.01.04: Can the same person sit in the same concert hall twice?
- 2006.01.03: Rebelling against the bait and switch
- 2005.12.19: Off until the new year
- 2005.12.15: Aggregating the distributed life
- 2005.12.14: Talk about a radical restructure!
- 2005.12.13: Dancing to another place
- 2005.12.09: Fun with Riders
- 2005.12.08: The private artist and the public good
- 2005.12.07: So you want to accept donations on-line?
- 2005.12.06: Describing the vibrant creative community
- 2005.12.02: It's not your grandfather's media format
- 2005.12.01: Don't go to the zoo, go to the jungle
- 2005.11.30: Perhaps we installed these by accident
- 2005.11.29: Can culture save downtown?
- 2005.11.28: Of characters and authenticity
- 2005.11.23: What about Sim conservatories?
- 2005.11.22: If you don't know your own community, don't blame the government
- 2005.11.21: The thrift belt
- 2005.11.18: Mathematics for Musicians
- 2005.11.17: The on-line communications toolkit
- 2005.11.16: The demise of civil society
- 2005.11.15: Welcome to the future...get used to it
- 2005.11.14: Honoring Peter F. Drucker
- 2005.11.11: Playing a positive role in innovation
- 2005.11.10: Constructing our public self
- 2005.11.09: You be the editor
- 2005.11.08: Measuring the creative community
- 2005.11.05: Greetings from Ottawa!
- 2005.11.05: If Culture Counts, How Do We Count It?
- 2005.11.04: Off to Ottawa
- 2005.11.03: Tell your donors now (if you haven't already)!
- 2005.11.02: What do you really need to know to connect?
- 2005.10.31: Arts on iTunes
- 2005.10.28: Stanford on iTunes
- 2005.10.27: The rankness of rankings
- 2005.10.26: Everything's about a date in Kansas City
- 2005.10.24: Balancing the triangle at Steppenwolf
- 2005.10.21: The art of persuasion
- 2005.10.20: Construct your own marketing metaphor
- 2005.10.19: Drawing collective conclusions
- 2005.10.18: Would you buy your own facility for $1?
- 2005.10.17: The interrupted life
- 2005.10.12: The Hessenius Group
- 2005.10.11: Flat or spiky?...it matters to place-based culture
- 2005.10.10: Filling in what we lack vs. building on what we have
- 2005.10.07: My keynote on measuring value
- 2005.10.07: Measuring Value
- 2005.10.05: Seeing the connections
- 2005.10.04: On the power of design and art
- 2005.10.03: With Broadway in Vegas, the house may win again
- 2005.09.29: A portrait of the visual arts
- 2005.09.28: Damned if you do, damned if you don't
- 2005.09.27: Alternate measures
- 2005.09.23: Remembering how to tell good stories
- 2005.09.22: Exit 9, if you must know
- 2005.09.21: Sneaky, sneaky
- 2005.09.20: Now the entrepreneur comes in ''mini''
- 2005.09.19: Exploring the ''common'' wealth
- 2005.09.16: The problem is postponed, but the debate continues
- 2005.09.15: Policy is NOT abstract...just ask Blockbuster
- 2005.09.14: The Five Modes of Arts Participation
- 2005.09.13: SOMEBODY must be teaching creative thinking
- 2005.09.12: Returning to a classic...Jack Schmidt
- 2005.09.09: Packaging and selling your attention
- 2005.09.07: Big carrot, big stick
- 2005.09.06: Trust, authority, karma, and ''interestingness''
- 2005.09.02: The 'bad-boy' clause
- 2005.09.01: Affluent interconnections
- 2005.08.31: BlogDay 2005
- 2005.08.30: From the ''you're already doomed'' department
- 2005.08.29: Do-it-yourself Beethoven scholarship
- 2005.08.26: Maybe we're trying too hard
- 2005.08.25: How to gross $100 million and still lose money
- 2005.08.24: Defining the artist
- 2005.08.22: The new MBAs are here
- 2005.08.19: Our version of 'nature vs. nurture'
- 2005.08.18: What does it mean to ''stand on your own''?
- 2005.08.16: ANOTHER RERUN: What, exactly, are we sustaining?
- 2005.08.15: The hot potato of public/private partnerships
- 2005.08.12: RERUN WEEK: The problem with purpose
- 2005.08.11: RERUN WEEK: Reintegrating our organizations and ourselves
- 2005.08.09: RERUN WEEK: The Box
- 2005.08.08: RERUN WEEK: Comfortable being out of balance
- 2005.08.05: More on the professional-grade amateur
- 2005.08.04: Art as the 'last cartel'
- 2005.08.02: Do movies matter beyond the gossip they fuel?
- 2005.08.01: Understanding teens on-line
- 2005.07.28: The laser-like focus of research
- 2005.07.27: 160 acres and a mule...or an arts district
- 2005.07.26: On the fungibility of experience
- 2005.07.25: Trust and Consumer Generated Media
- 2005.07.22: Connection as competition
- 2005.07.21: Alanis Morissette on cultural nonprofit finance structure
- 2005.07.20: The rebirth of amateur culture
- 2005.07.19: A fresh look for arts research
- 2005.07.18: So where's distributed ticketing?
- 2005.07.15: Writing a collective story of place
- 2005.07.14: Happy anniversary
- 2005.07.13: Selling the schools
- 2005.07.12: Old growth vs. new sprouts in South Florida
- 2005.07.11: Trends that shape(d) 2005
- 2005.07.05: Off for the week
- 2005.06.30: Is ''audience'' an antiquated word?
- 2005.06.29: A crushing debt
- 2005.06.28: Of science and art (again)
- 2005.06.27: Fun with Sarbanes-Oxley
- 2005.06.24: Unnecessarily separate
- 2005.06.23: Relearning conversation skills
- 2005.06.22: Espoused mission vs. mission-in-use
- 2005.06.20: The stuff you SAY you like vs. the stuff you DO like
- 2005.06.17: Rethinking the production/delivery process
- 2005.06.16: We won't say we told you so
- 2005.06.15: Howdy neighbor
- 2005.06.14: Podcasting: Why you should care
- 2005.06.13: Who gets to decide what 'performance' means?
- 2005.06.10: The crazy frog prince
- 2005.06.09: The downside of the ''mushroom method''
- 2005.06.08: Ample parking, but no atmosphere...literally
- 2005.06.07: Rockonomics 101
- 2005.06.03: Do you REALLY want to talk?
- 2005.06.02: Just a short link...
- 2005.06.01: For honor or cash...or something in between
- 2005.05.31: When good donors go bad
- 2005.05.26: What gets made, what gets seen
- 2005.05.24: The Footprints, the Giant, and the Rotarians
- 2005.05.23: The Footprints and the Giant
- 2005.05.23: Sheboygan bound
- 2005.05.19: On better decision-making
- 2005.05.18: Now THERE'S a business model
- 2005.05.17: Life in bizarro business land
- 2005.05.16: Trouble at the Milwaukee Public Museum
- 2005.05.13: Fun with keywords and data mining
- 2005.05.12: Finding capacity in the cracks
- 2005.05.11: My kayak salesman gets it
- 2005.05.10: coders + data + curiosity = cool
- 2005.05.09: Knowledge vs. magic
- 2005.05.06: The statistically improbable phrase
- 2005.05.05: Well, there goes THAT argument
- 2005.05.04: The essentials of science distilled
- 2005.05.03: Deconstructing the symphony (at least a fake one)
- 2005.05.03: Radical Restructure at the Fictitious Symphony
- 2005.05.02: Take a friend to orchestra month
- 2005.04.29: The dance of donors, cities, and arts projects
- 2005.04.28: Facing submersion, ship captain decides to take on more water
- 2005.04.27: How many users does it take to become odd?
- 2005.04.26: The essential unnecessaries
- 2005.04.25: The wonderful world of budget games
- 2005.04.22: If you ran the government
- 2005.04.21: The power of 'slacktivism'
- 2005.04.20: Building stale metaphors in stone
- 2005.04.18: Seems like only a decade ago
- 2005.04.15: The big cultural nonprofit as nation state
- 2005.04.14: When you say it with money, you mean it
- 2005.04.13: Reconnecting science and art
- 2005.04.12: A hammer or a sponge
- 2005.04.08: The Simpsons spoof cultural facilities
- 2005.04.07: Teaching the unknowable
- 2005.04.06: Do what we say, not what we do
- 2005.04.05: Stocks, flows, and connectors...oh my
- 2005.04.04: The answer, in a word, is 'no'
- 2005.04.01: We are not alone
- 2005.03.31: If you build it...you'll be sorry
- 2005.03.30: The migration of the young professional
- 2005.03.29: Charity identity theft
- 2005.03.28: It now takes a village to edit a book
- 2005.03.25: The stories behind the stubs
- 2005.03.24: Universities as urban planners and arts patrons
- 2005.03.23: The instant 'season sampler'
- 2005.03.22: A new content engine
- 2005.03.21: Mergers and inquisitions
- 2005.03.16: The higher math of government arts funding
- 2005.03.15: The future of independent media
- 2005.03.14: The education reflex
- 2005.03.07: The blog next door
- 2005.03.04: That's how much we want the money
- 2005.03.03: The new price of symphony in St. Paul
- 2005.03.02: Pricing a la Wal-Mart
- 2005.03.01: Yet another hyphenated competitor
- 2005.02.28: How much do you want the money?
- 2005.02.25: God saves the queen, but HSE saves everyone else
- 2005.02.23: The future of philanthropy
- 2005.02.22: The no-overhead organization
- 2005.02.21: The imported local symphony
- 2005.02.18: Midway between cool and creepy
- 2005.02.17: Gifts of the Muse
- 2005.02.16: Public Art and 'Piles of Sheet'
- 2005.02.15: Searching, searching, ever searching
- 2005.02.11: Get them young-ens' acculturated
- 2005.02.10: Giving circles and community banks
- 2005.02.09: What do we buy when we buy music?
- 2005.02.08: Toronto Keynote: Managing Metaphors
- 2005.02.08: Talking in Toronto
- 2005.02.04: The healthy arts leader
- 2005.02.03: The end-to-end experience
- 2005.02.02: Warehouses and retail
- 2005.02.01: Reap what ye sow
- 2005.01.31: The rise of the right brain
- 2005.01.27: More brain-blinders to watch for
- 2005.01.26: Krens and the great rich whale
- 2005.01.25: It's all about the peak and the ending
- 2005.01.24: Cultural sprawl
- 2005.01.21: Feedback on conference panels
- 2005.01.20: Dark matter
- 2005.01.19: Peanuts, pretzels, art, candy bars, cigarettes
- 2005.01.18: Patterns of compensation
- 2005.01.13: Hurray for our team
- 2005.01.12: Taking brand placement to a whole new place
- 2005.01.11: A new approach to conference panels
- 2005.01.10: Let's take a break from the word 'change'
- 2005.01.07: Exploring common ground in the performing arts
- 2005.01.06: Rockettes aftermath
- 2005.01.05: More carrots and sticks
- 2005.01.04: Carrots and sticks
- 2005.01.03: Less of a lecture, more of a conversation
- 2004.12.23: Home for the holidays
- 2004.12.22: Talk about an enthusiastic audience
- 2004.12.21: A major league question
- 2004.12.20: Selling what you can't change
- 2004.12.16: Convenience at a cost
- 2004.12.14: The ol' revenue shuffle
- 2004.12.13: Monday brain-bender
- 2004.12.10: Myths of the creative workforce
- 2004.12.09: A bake sale on steroids
- 2004.12.08: Another iPod-inspired techno-trend
- 2004.12.06: Uncluttered, unmuddled, unearthed
- 2004.12.03: Shrinking media and lagging coverage
- 2004.12.01: The Ten Commandments of Arts Advocacy
- 2004.11.30: Boxing culture
- 2004.11.29: Problems at the PACs
- 2004.11.22: Thanksgiving break...go eat something
- 2004.11.19: The forest and the trees
- 2004.11.18: Evidence of insanity
- 2004.11.17: They're busy, but happy about it
- 2004.11.16: Continuing sagas from Boston
- 2004.11.15: Outreach Midori-style
- 2004.11.11: Government and funding and museums...oh my
- 2004.11.10: Okay, pretend we didn't ask
- 2004.11.09: The stage we can't ignore
- 2004.11.08: Blogging your brains out
- 2004.11.05: The changing role of producers
- 2004.11.04: Social Networking Software
- 2004.11.02: Arts partnerships and the public schools
- 2004.11.01: Telling compelling stories
- 2004.10.28: One sign of a maturing technology
- 2004.10.27: Oozing back up
- 2004.10.26: On-line goodies
- 2004.10.25: Overbuilt: The Sequel
- 2004.10.22: Catching a clue from The Cluetrain Manifesto
- 2004.10.21: Learning about art and audience from designers
- 2004.10.19: Returns on investment
- 2004.10.18: Corporate myopia
- 2004.10.15: Some Friday diversions and fluff
- 2004.10.14: Overbuilt?
- 2004.10.13: Value and the arts
- 2004.10.12: Process over product
- 2004.10.08: What's it worth?
- 2004.10.07: Gaining ground by giving it away
- 2004.10.06: Exploring the long tail
- 2004.10.04: Another false chasm?
- 2004.10.01: To serve you better
- 2004.09.30: Act big or think small?
- 2004.09.29: See what's inside the latest technology
- 2004.09.28: When debt is your greatest asset
- 2004.09.27: What's in a price tag?
- 2004.09.24: Getty Roundtable Weblogs
- 2004.09.24: Some games to prove my point (and scare you)
- 2004.09.23: GETTY: The perils of partnership
- 2004.09.21: Holding open the experience yet to come
- 2004.09.20: What's in a web site?
- 2004.09.17: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
- 2004.09.17: Let the galas begin
- 2004.09.16: For the wanna-be cultural literate
- 2004.09.15: The IRS and executive compensation
- 2004.09.14: Fill out this survey, or I'll probe your brain
- 2004.09.13: The joys of statistics
- 2004.09.10: Teaching old books a new trick
- 2004.09.09: The silent (audience) killer
- 2004.09.08: GETTY: Crafting the audience
- 2004.09.03: More on the value of art
- 2004.09.02: Roller Coaster Tycoon
- 2004.09.02: The next best thing to an arts org. simulator
- 2004.08.31: GETTY: More capital ideas
- 2004.08.30: New museum model or Trojan horse?
- 2004.08.25: GETTY: Some capital ideas
- 2004.08.24: Orientation and orienteering
- 2004.08.23: The art of the everyday
- 2004.08.19: Value solved: This weblog is worth $4,992.64
- 2004.08.18: Finding Forrester
- 2004.08.17: GETTY: In search of elbow room
- 2004.08.16: Will dance for cash
- 2004.08.13: GETTY: Fun with Fungibility
- 2004.08.11: GETTY: Nonprofit and for-profit
- 2004.08.09: GETTY: Extending a conversation
- 2004.08.05: More than half the pie
- 2004.08.03: Another take on the org. chart
- 2004.08.02: Of costs and control
- 2004.07.29: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
- 2004.07.29: Value revisited
- 2004.07.28: Go somewhere else
- 2004.07.27: Regretting the Walkman
- 2004.07.26: Strategic calisthenics
- 2004.07.21: Selling out or sifting through?
- 2004.07.20: And stop displaying such old stuff
- 2004.07.19: The gift that keeps on taking
- 2004.07.16: Mike Wallace of the weblog world
- 2004.07.15: The value of creative production
- 2004.07.14: A year ago today
- 2004.07.12: An engine shifting gears
- 2004.07.11: Big Night
- 2004.07.09: A few odds and ends
- 2004.07.08: Cause or effect?
- 2004.07.06: Missing the larger point
- 2004.06.30: Numbers and rankings and lists
- 2004.06.29: The difference that makes a difference
- 2004.06.28: Flop or success? Ask the accountant
- 2004.06.25: More from Miami's PAC
- 2004.06.24: Selling Strads in bulk
- 2004.06.23: Come on, get happy
- 2004.06.22: Tax reform poster children
- 2004.06.21: When in doubt, look to the frogs
- 2004.06.15: Some tidbits while my brain cools
- 2004.06.04: Off to Pittsburgh
- 2004.06.03: Here's a useful thought
- 2004.06.02: Just don't start playing solitaire
- 2004.06.01: The tyranny of templates
- 2004.05.26: Exploding myths
- 2004.05.25: The arts uncubator
- 2004.05.24: Simple Truth Number Two
- 2004.05.21: If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em
- 2004.05.20: Thanks for making my point
- 2004.05.18: Simple Truth Number One (of more to come)
- 2004.05.17: Valuing the arts in Silicon Valley
- 2004.05.14: Weblogs extended
- 2004.05.13: On collaborative marketing
- 2004.05.12: Innovation in a box
- 2004.05.11: Invention, innovation, and the arts
- 2004.05.07: Back from the brink
- 2004.05.04: The high cost of being 'free'
- 2004.05.04: Policy
- 2004.05.03: Performing arts and higher education
- 2004.04.30: A virtual version of 'word of mouth'
- 2004.04.28: Debt, spin, and intrigue in Milwaukee
- 2004.04.27: Knee deep in the hoopla
- 2004.04.23: The hot topic that leaves us cold
- 2004.04.22: Conferences, conferences, ever more conferences
- 2004.04.21: More on the Neglected Audience
- 2004.04.19: Those pesky indirect costs
- 2004.04.15: The neglected audience
- 2004.04.14: Metaphor marketing and the arts
- 2004.04.13: Of unions and antitrust
- 2004.04.12: Theater's version of risk management
- 2004.04.02: I'm off until April 12
- 2004.04.01: Blending the vacuous and the sublime
- 2004.03.31: For fans of the random factoid
- 2004.03.30: A more balanced view of de-accessioning
- 2004.03.29: The problem with purpose
- 2004.03.26: More on value...but now it's just silly
- 2004.03.25: How to kill classical music...a pointer
- 2004.03.24: Shopping mall responses
- 2004.03.23: Get thee to the Getty
- 2004.03.22: The performing arts center and the mall
- 2004.03.19: Don't change the players, change the game
- 2004.03.17: Here come the theaters
- 2004.03.16: Stuck in traffic of our own design
- 2004.03.15: Three questions worth asking
- 2004.03.12: On the road again..again...
- 2004.03.11: More on pricing and public relations
- 2004.03.10: A changing relationship with music
- 2004.03.09: On growth and death
- 2004.03.08: A spectrum of response to ticket price increases
- 2004.03.04: When cultural experiences fall a bit short
- 2004.03.03: Fun with Latin, Best Practices, and New Zealanders
- 2004.03.02: Build your own weblog entry (assembly required)
- 2004.02.26: Leaving on a jet plane
- 2004.02.25: The fight over rent (not the musical)
- 2004.02.24: Evangelism responses
- 2004.02.23: We can't see where we don't look
- 2004.02.20: Do we sell the bottle, or the wine?
- 2004.02.19: Open source, not just for hackers anymore
- 2004.02.18: Evangelists as arts managers
- 2004.02.17: Museums and the perils of success
- 2004.02.16: But will the 'living machines' buy opera tickets
- 2004.02.14: Action Speaks Louder than Studies
- 2004.02.13: The 100th Post
- 2004.02.12: Another place that classical music doesn't fit
- 2004.02.11: Persistence of vision
- 2004.02.10: Arts manager as evangelist
- 2004.02.09: Let's just call it negative growth
- 2004.02.06: The old (sacred) bait and switch
- 2004.02.05: Cash flow (or lack thereof)
- 2004.02.04: Only $6 per month for entertainment nirvana
- 2004.02.03: The co-construction of the arts experience
- 2004.02.02: How people think vs. how we want them to
- 2004.01.29: Of local arts, casinos, and economic impact
- 2004.01.28: Enabling or unraveling 'the big sort'
- 2004.01.26: If they were only smarter, they'd LOVE us
- 2004.01.22: Some pointers to keep you busy...
- 2004.01.20: The Elusive Goal: a self sustaining, non-profit
- 2004.01.19: Storytelling for Arts Administrators
- 2004.01.16: Really, really, really knowing your audience
- 2004.01.15: Back to the amateurs
- 2004.01.13: What's in a name? Lots of problems, that's what
- 2004.01.12: A refreshing dose of reality
- 2004.01.09: On the road again...
- 2004.01.08: A cash-laden update to the Nutcracker story
- 2004.01.07: Apple Computer enables a new generation of amateur
- 2004.01.06: Do what you say, say what you mean
- 2004.01.05: Self-delusion through surveys
- 2004.01.04: Sunday in the Park with George
- 2003.12.23: Time for a holiday break...
- 2003.12.19: Going mobile...the Artful Manager on the road
- 2003.12.18: Calm down, keep it simple
- 2003.12.16: Mapping the social elite...
- 2003.12.15: In search of the REAL organizational chart
- 2003.12.12: Art as Experience
- 2003.12.11: Peter Drucker makes my point better than I do
- 2003.12.10: Word of the Day: Invidious
- 2003.12.09: If you only have a hammer.
- 2003.12.08: Owning Culture
- 2003.12.05: The Anti-Annual Report
- 2003.12.04: What about discussing 'worst practices'?
- 2003.12.02: Where it rains, it pays
- 2003.12.01: What, exactly, are we sustaining?
- 2003.11.25: Happy Thanksgiving
- 2003.11.24: Selling the Grim
- 2003.11.21: Fun with mission statements
- 2003.11.20: Arts Administration Training: A rebuttal
- 2003.11.17: A little whimsy goes a long way
- 2003.11.13: Says you...
- 2003.11.10: Oh yeah, this is supposed to be fun
- 2003.11.07: Attack of the Rockettes
- 2003.11.06: Ousting the Nutcracker
- 2003.11.05: Zooming in on economic impact
- 2003.11.04: PAC: Miami
- 2003.11.03: A new blogger joins the fray
- 2003.10.30: Facility Feedback
- 2003.10.28: The Edifice Complex
- 2003.10.27: Flocking funders
- 2003.10.20: Conferencepalooza
- 2003.10.17: Positive spin
- 2003.10.16: At least we're all going down together
- 2003.10.15: Long live the Executive Director (we hope)
- 2003.10.14: You are here...
- 2003.10.13: What price music?
- 2003.10.13: State of the Art
- 2003.10.07: My head hurts
- 2003.10.03: Rethinking how we think
- 2003.10.01: You are what you measure
- 2003.09.30: The Creative Commons
- 2003.09.29: Brains from a Different Time
- 2003.09.25: From the Mouths of Mayors
- 2003.09.23: Creative Cities
- 2003.09.22: It's all 'Times Roman' to me
- 2003.09.18: The lean get leaner...
- 2003.09.16: Dancing with Systems
- 2003.09.13: Partnership
- 2003.09.12: Too many cooks?
- 2003.09.11: Free a Book Today
- 2003.09.09: Comfortable Being Out of Balance
- 2003.09.08: Google's Birthday
- 2003.09.04: Canadian Orchestras Unite
- 2003.09.02: Is Art Good for Us?
- 2003.09.02: Juxtaposition
- 2003.08.26: Quotes to Live by
- 2003.08.25: The Footprint or the Giant
- 2003.08.20: Okay, a Quick Entry and Then a Pause...
- 2003.08.19: A Brief Pause
- 2003.08.18: Bridging the Gap
- 2003.08.15: Cascade Failure
- 2003.08.14: How Many Seats Make a Difference?
- 2003.08.13: The Domineering Donor
- 2003.08.12: That Darn Technology
- 2003.08.11: The Box
- 2003.08.09: On Being Nonprofit
- 2003.08.08: The Lure of Something New...
- 2003.08.06: Gone fishing...
- 2003.08.05: The Arts Dividend
- 2003.08.04: Feedback
- 2003.07.31: The Art of Gobbledegook
- 2003.07.30: How I Made $14.18
- 2003.07.28: Depends on what your definition of 'is' is...
- 2003.07.25: Partner in Crime
- 2003.07.24: Mission or Means
- 2003.07.22: Reintegrating our organizations and ourselves
- 2003.07.21: What does it cost?...What have you got?
- 2003.07.18: Imagine there's no money, it's easy if you try.
- 2003.07.17: Attend the Arts...or Die...
- 2003.07.16: The Clap Trap
- 2003.07.15: That's One Big Canary!
- 2003.07.14: What's It All About?
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