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Visualizing the connections | May 09, 2008
Creating space for play | May 08, 2008
Because art *is* context | May 07, 2008
Three words, three problems | May 01, 2008
Still digging out... | April 30, 2008
Focusing energy off-line | April 21, 2008
In thanks and praise to Fan Taylor | April 17, 2008
Bruce Sterling on the future of everything | April 16, 2008
Removing one more reason for institutions | April 15, 2008
Progressive disclosure | April 14, 2008
On recession and expression | April 11, 2008
Comic distractions for a Thursday morning | April 10, 2008
Who owns the idea of what the campus means? | April 09, 2008
What's your U-Index? | April 08, 2008
Old product, new sales channel | April 07, 2008
The difference between ''feeling'' and reality | April 04, 2008
''Business-like'' is not the problem | April 03, 2008
What I know about you | April 01, 2008
The geography and demography of dating | March 31, 2008
Considering a Creative Scotland | March 28, 2008
Donors *already* have voting rights | March 27, 2008
What does your brand sound like? | March 26, 2008
A new report on orchestral economics | March 25, 2008
The dull but necessary craft | March 24, 2008
The 'we' inside of me | March 17, 2008
When music 'wants to be free,' charge for something else | March 14, 2008
The self-organizing audience | March 13, 2008
Curating our own space | March 12, 2008
Nonprofit retention and vacancy | March 11, 2008
GyPSiis and caravanserai | March 07, 2008
Invoking the 'C' word with a vengeance | March 05, 2008
Some arts leaders could use this kind of play | March 04, 2008
The positive power of ignorance | March 03, 2008
The all-Google office? | February 29, 2008
When do you serve your mission by closing your doors? | February 28, 2008
Bringing a new eye to facility design | February 27, 2008
A little vision of collective meaning | February 22, 2008
Sort of like PowerPoint haiku | February 20, 2008
Illiterate or hyperliterate? It depends on how you count | February 19, 2008
Balancing the masses and the elite | February 14, 2008
Allocating that complex asset, the museum collection | February 13, 2008
Getting in our own way | February 12, 2008
Thanks to Microsoft, I'm a better person... | February 11, 2008
Agent or manager...the distinction blurs | February 08, 2008
Does anyone listen to lyrics? | February 07, 2008
More on authenticity | February 06, 2008
What's ''authentic''? | February 05, 2008
For another $30 million, you get cupholders | January 31, 2008
Greetings from South Africa (aka, Wisconsin) | January 30, 2008
Systematizing innovation, or the future of the B-School | January 22, 2008
Curating impact through artists | January 16, 2008
Your customer doesn't always care | January 15, 2008
Rules of engagement | January 14, 2008
Presenters to the left of me, presenters to the right of me | January 11, 2008
Way beyond butts in seats | January 09, 2008
Slicing the pie horizontally | January 08, 2008
Learning web basics without looking stupid | January 07, 2008
Learning how we learn | January 04, 2008
The continuing rise of contrivance | January 03, 2008
Here's what our production line looks like | December 13, 2007
Making arguments rather than complaints | December 12, 2007
When even local isn't local anymore | December 10, 2007
A ruckus on rankings | December 06, 2007
Why we should care about Guitar Hero | December 05, 2007
Support the contents or the box? | December 04, 2007
Easily distracted | November 27, 2007
Dancing at the edge of nonprofit | November 19, 2007
Rethinking the audience chamber | November 16, 2007
Ben Cameron on ''financial masochism'' | November 14, 2007
For those about to rock | November 12, 2007
Talk about transparent! | November 09, 2007
Where law meets creative expression | November 08, 2007
Pre-natal brand preference? | November 06, 2007
Who gives the gift, and who gets the gift? | November 05, 2007
Digging into arts administration education | November 01, 2007
A major matrix | October 31, 2007
Ten tips for new theater buildings | October 30, 2007
A naming gift without the name | October 29, 2007
Facts with a human face | October 22, 2007
Preserving and changing at the same time | October 18, 2007
Then I must be intangibly wealthy | October 17, 2007
Your ticket price is merely the starting offer | October 15, 2007
An new (epic) stage of life | October 12, 2007
What interns do vs. what interns want to do | October 11, 2007
Do these spreadsheets make my assets look big? | October 10, 2007
An unpleasant argument | October 09, 2007
Virtual dishes are more fun to clean | October 05, 2007
A mini manifesto (addendum) | October 04, 2007
I think the alien gives it away | October 02, 2007
It's the invisible structures that get you | October 01, 2007
Strategy as storytelling | September 28, 2007
We manage what we measure, so let's measure what we value | September 25, 2007
What is scientific literacy? An essay contest helps decide | September 24, 2007
A Friday diversion | September 21, 2007
Evolution vs. adaptation vs. ultimate good | September 20, 2007
Faking authenticity | September 19, 2007
At least one indicator changing in our favor | September 18, 2007
Rethinking city transformation | September 14, 2007
Next comes free agency | September 13, 2007
Okay, so how about a 'fantasy orchestra' league? | September 12, 2007
On price and value | September 11, 2007
Managing the evidence...literally | September 06, 2007
A mini manifesto | September 05, 2007
My little crisis chrysalis | August 15, 2007
Measuring multiple impacts | July 06, 2007
Lingering on leisure | July 05, 2007
Dialing back for the summer | June 29, 2007
But I still need a grant in my FIRST life | June 27, 2007
Nice work if you can get it (and not be indicted) | June 21, 2007
Turns out you never owned the recording anyway | June 20, 2007
Working to REDUCE one impact of the arts | June 18, 2007
Engaging art, engaging audiences | June 15, 2007
Defining (or redefining) the amateur | June 13, 2007
Welcome to my world | June 11, 2007
What's not to love about amateurs? | June 07, 2007
How to respond to global commerce? Be more local. | June 05, 2007
The interplay of business and the arts | June 04, 2007
To change, or not to change | June 01, 2007
''Leisure Class'' or ''Cheap and Easy''? | May 30, 2007
Time-wasting money-losers, aka charity events | May 29, 2007
The need for narrative | May 24, 2007
Fractured and seamless, alone and connected | May 23, 2007
Reconsidering leisure time | May 21, 2007
Into the fire...literally | May 09, 2007
Choosing not to be active | May 04, 2007
How many users are actually generating content? | May 02, 2007
Oh, so much to do... | May 01, 2007
The five meanings of ''scale'' | April 27, 2007
Defining the future of Americans for the Arts | April 26, 2007
Chasing the fountain of youth | April 25, 2007
Quiet Junior, mommy and daddy are talking | April 24, 2007
Time to rethink the professional arts conference | April 18, 2007
Button by button, thread by thread | April 17, 2007
Same basket, fewer eggs | April 16, 2007
Same as it ever was | April 13, 2007
Planning the creative city | April 12, 2007
What do markets ''feel'' like? | April 10, 2007
Creativity ain't what it used to be (and never was) | April 09, 2007
Off for the week (or more) | March 23, 2007
Measuring leisure time | March 21, 2007
Portrait of the artist's workspace | March 20, 2007
Creative, expressive, connected, remembered | March 19, 2007
Like ''La Boheme,'' but with money | March 16, 2007
Making the entire planet a toy | March 14, 2007
One symphony's dance with capital markets | March 13, 2007
MacDowell Redux: Serving artists DOES serve the public good | March 12, 2007
Experiments in distributed financing | March 08, 2007
Your income statement will tell you what you sell | March 06, 2007
I suppose it's a form of customer service | March 05, 2007
Artists crossing over (no, not into the afterlife) | March 01, 2007
Stumbling towards ecstasy | February 28, 2007
Managing yield, balancing guilt | February 27, 2007
Staying exempt | February 21, 2007
Sunday in the Park with Cans | February 20, 2007
Revisiting a mission shift | February 16, 2007
Buddhist Economics | February 15, 2007
Perhaps the Luddites had a point | February 14, 2007
Enabling your fans, connecting their friends | February 13, 2007
Building awareness and conversation, one restroom stall at a time | February 12, 2007
Different players, familiar tune | February 09, 2007
Buying culture in bulk | February 08, 2007
To present or to preserve | February 07, 2007
Seeing the big ideas | February 05, 2007
Wandering elsewhere | January 30, 2007
Don't tell the marketing department | January 26, 2007
None of us is as dumb as all of us | January 25, 2007
Should PR come in one voice, or a thousand? | January 24, 2007
Glazed and confused | January 23, 2007
The smartest nonprofits online | January 22, 2007
Audio on Arts Presenters | January 19, 2007
Preserving the ethnosphere | January 17, 2007
Getting ready for the road | January 16, 2007
The prognosis on classical music | January 12, 2007
Sophomore slump | January 11, 2007
The key to happiness? Low expectations. | January 10, 2007
Measuring cultural vitality | January 08, 2007
A shot across the bow | January 05, 2007
Rethinking a window to the world | January 04, 2007
Reclaiming 'culture' | January 03, 2007
The For-Profit Charity | January 02, 2007
Time for a break... | December 18, 2006
Creative connections as practical necessity | December 13, 2006
Fostering the healthy artist | December 12, 2006
Watching your word-of-mouth | December 07, 2006
Generation C(ontent), Generation C(ash) | December 06, 2006
Hercules, Atlas, Sisyphus, Garland, Rooney | December 05, 2006
When does a work of art begin? | December 04, 2006
A good prospect for a (virtual) board member, perhaps | November 30, 2006
The non-representative fundraising photo (that works) | November 29, 2006
More ways to express your public self | November 27, 2006
If we want to measure the arts, we'll need new metrics | November 22, 2006
Does 'smart business' trump good governance? | November 21, 2006
Separate and connected...like a giant fungus | November 17, 2006
Haggling vs. higher ground | November 16, 2006
Architecture of value, part deux | November 14, 2006
Exploring the architecture of value | November 09, 2006
Encouraging co-authorship | November 07, 2006
Encouraging the active audience | November 06, 2006
I'll be back... | November 03, 2006
The rise of the active audience | October 30, 2006
The absentee landlord | October 24, 2006
Keeping an eye on dashboards | October 20, 2006
The line-item nonprofit | October 18, 2006
Extreme commuters | October 16, 2006
So let's rename ''classical'' as ''authentic retro-ambient'' | October 13, 2006
Copyright in verse | October 11, 2006
What the heck is 'cultural policy' anyway? | October 10, 2006
Scatter maps for fun and profit | October 09, 2006
Is Andrew overbooked? | October 05, 2006
Dinosaur or phoenix? | October 03, 2006
Is culture overbuilt? | October 02, 2006
Transformational, transactional, and tacit | September 29, 2006
Painting with a broader corporate palette | September 28, 2006
One more way to map your world | September 27, 2006
Only half an argument | September 26, 2006
Wish I were here | September 20, 2006
Three (short) detours back to public value | September 20, 2006
A connector's connector | September 18, 2006
Off to Alaska | September 15, 2006
Fan Taylor's code of excellence | September 14, 2006
Live vs. mediated | September 12, 2006
Witness and Response | September 11, 2006
Managing the magic list | September 08, 2006
Anticipation and memory | September 07, 2006
A weblog-worthy quote | September 05, 2006
The promise of portable video | September 01, 2006
Going to scale without falling to pieces | August 30, 2006
An early holiday gift from the U.S. Census | August 29, 2006
It turns out EVERYBODY wants to be flexible | August 28, 2006
Keeping an eye on the kitty | August 25, 2006
Living a different life | August 24, 2006
Better learning through comics | August 23, 2006
Batting 600 | August 21, 2006
Pandora's music box | August 17, 2006
The path to California's $500 million for arts education | August 16, 2006
Help wanted | August 15, 2006
Mission, Models, and Money | August 14, 2006
Sharing the power | August 11, 2006
Understanding and fulfilling the presenter's contract | August 09, 2006
Designed to dissolve | August 08, 2006
But how do you REALLY feel about ballet? | August 07, 2006
Of death and dying | August 04, 2006
Thinning the nonprofit arts herd | August 02, 2006
What makes a museum? | August 01, 2006
Act like a business? Why aim so low? | July 31, 2006
Off again | July 24, 2006
The longer narrative on the ''long tail'' | July 19, 2006
Escaping Atlanta | July 17, 2006
The Artful Manager turns three | July 14, 2006
Striving for clarity, watching for jargon | July 13, 2006
Content and commerce | July 12, 2006
The art of data visualization | July 11, 2006
Jugglers wanted | July 10, 2006
Lawsuits and Lion King | July 07, 2006
Growing out of creativity | July 06, 2006
Off for the week (and then some) | June 26, 2006
A massive dose of perspective | June 23, 2006
Two questions worth asking | June 20, 2006
Defining success | June 19, 2006
What might nonprofits looks like in 2016? | June 16, 2006
A bit too ubiquitous | June 14, 2006
Calling the question | June 13, 2006
Opera vs. cheese | June 12, 2006
Of mission and motion | June 09, 2006
Here comes ''crowdsourcing'' | June 07, 2006
Gift or purchase? | June 06, 2006
Conversations to come | June 05, 2006
To be cool, or not to be | June 02, 2006
Museums and the rights of publicity | May 31, 2006
Choreographing public space | May 30, 2006
Americans for the Arts panel | May 26, 2006
Affective forecasting | May 23, 2006
Separating 'generic' and 'expected' from 'augmented' | May 22, 2006
Ping | May 19, 2006
Two conversations worth a moment | May 16, 2006
Clarity vs. Chatter | May 15, 2006
I need a week | May 08, 2006
The art of letting go | May 04, 2006
In praise of the walkable city, in memory of Jane Jacobs | May 02, 2006
Setting literature free | May 01, 2006
Museums and rain forests and chocolates (oh my) | April 28, 2006
The math of book profits (or loss) | April 27, 2006
How can a hamburger have more friends than I do? | April 26, 2006
Back in business | April 25, 2006
Seeking clarity | April 21, 2006
On the road to Toronto | April 20, 2006
Moving forward in Kansas City | April 18, 2006
Counting what counts | April 17, 2006
Copyright and heritage | April 13, 2006
Who owns culture? | April 11, 2006
The power of flaws | April 10, 2006
Prison, purgatory, or playground | April 06, 2006
Being really, really, really committed to the art | April 04, 2006
The art of the start | April 03, 2006
Music and Media | March 31, 2006
The board-of-directors disconnect | March 29, 2006
The physics of friendship | March 28, 2006
Access vs. excellence | March 27, 2006
Measuring progress in ''smiles per hour'' | March 24, 2006
And you thought you had a youth marketing problem | March 22, 2006
Feeling the squeeze | March 21, 2006
Economic impact: strike two | March 20, 2006
What does a ''great organization'' look like? | March 16, 2006
The next generation | March 15, 2006
Knowing your audience, knowing your stuff | March 13, 2006
Do we ''age into'' arts attendance? | March 09, 2006
Attracting the 'young and the restless' | March 08, 2006
To be of use | March 07, 2006
Martinis and art, shaken and stirred | March 06, 2006
John Kani and the spirit of UBUNTU | March 02, 2006
Sandow on classical music...again | March 01, 2006
Just when you thought you had this web thing down | February 28, 2006
Rethinking the arts ecology through health care | February 27, 2006
Programming by the numbers | February 23, 2006
Mapping 100 years of music as subway stops | February 22, 2006
The practical approach to board unity | February 21, 2006
A powerful study on aging and the arts | February 20, 2006
Inviting the elephant into the room | February 16, 2006
Beyond Richard Florida | February 15, 2006
Churn, baby, churn | February 14, 2006
"Word of mouth" on steroids | February 13, 2006
I'm off this week | February 06, 2006
Stuff I wish I'd said | February 03, 2006
Rethinking the business card | February 02, 2006
Is an audience a crowd of individuals, or a gathering of groups? | January 31, 2006
Mergers and inquisitions | January 30, 2006
Behind the scenes | January 27, 2006
Interview for Artsline | January 26, 2006
Curating your own life soundtrack | January 26, 2006
Ecological mission vs. insular alliance | January 25, 2006
Critical uncertainties | January 24, 2006
Face-time in NYC | January 19, 2006
500 Posts | January 18, 2006
Finding new ways to find things | January 17, 2006
Traveling to NYC | January 16, 2006
If you build it...well, you know | January 13, 2006
First cocooning, then hiving, and now 'insperiences' | January 12, 2006
Instead of asking for money, let's just make our own | January 11, 2006
Heritage vs. the marketplace (the marketplace wins) | January 10, 2006
How to post resources to the web | January 09, 2006
Why you should continue to date me | January 06, 2006
The potential of sense-making research | January 05, 2006
Can the same person sit in the same concert hall twice? | January 04, 2006
Rebelling against the bait and switch | January 03, 2006
Off until the new year | December 19, 2005
Aggregating the distributed life | December 15, 2005
Talk about a radical restructure! | December 14, 2005
Dancing to another place | December 13, 2005
Fun with Riders | December 09, 2005
The private artist and the public good | December 08, 2005
So you want to accept donations on-line? | December 07, 2005
Describing the vibrant creative community | December 06, 2005
It's not your grandfather's media format | December 02, 2005
Don't go to the zoo, go to the jungle | December 01, 2005
Perhaps we installed these by accident | November 30, 2005
Can culture save downtown? | November 29, 2005
Of characters and authenticity | November 28, 2005
What about Sim conservatories? | November 23, 2005
If you don't know your own community, don't blame the government | November 22, 2005
The thrift belt | November 21, 2005
Mathematics for Musicians | November 18, 2005
The on-line communications toolkit | November 17, 2005
The demise of civil society | November 16, 2005
Welcome to the future...get used to it | November 15, 2005
Honoring Peter F. Drucker | November 14, 2005
Playing a positive role in innovation | November 11, 2005
Constructing our public self | November 10, 2005
You be the editor | November 09, 2005
Measuring the creative community | November 08, 2005
Greetings from Ottawa! | November 05, 2005
If Culture Counts, How Do We Count It? | November 05, 2005
Off to Ottawa | November 04, 2005
Tell your donors now (if you haven't already)! | November 03, 2005
What do you really need to know to connect? | November 02, 2005
Arts on iTunes | October 31, 2005
Stanford on iTunes | October 28, 2005
The rankness of rankings | October 27, 2005
Everything's about a date in Kansas City | October 26, 2005
Balancing the triangle at Steppenwolf | October 24, 2005
The art of persuasion | October 21, 2005
Construct your own marketing metaphor | October 20, 2005
Drawing collective conclusions | October 19, 2005
Would you buy your own facility for $1? | October 18, 2005
The interrupted life | October 17, 2005
The Hessenius Group | October 12, 2005
Flat or spiky?...it matters to place-based culture | October 11, 2005
Filling in what we lack vs. building on what we have | October 10, 2005
My keynote on measuring value | October 07, 2005
Measuring Value | October 07, 2005
Seeing the connections | October 05, 2005
On the power of design and art | October 04, 2005
With Broadway in Vegas, the house may win again | October 03, 2005
A portrait of the visual arts | September 29, 2005
Damned if you do, damned if you don't | September 28, 2005
Alternate measures | September 27, 2005
Remembering how to tell good stories | September 23, 2005
Exit 9, if you must know | September 22, 2005
Sneaky, sneaky | September 21, 2005
Now the entrepreneur comes in ''mini'' | September 20, 2005
Exploring the ''common'' wealth | September 19, 2005
The problem is postponed, but the debate continues | September 16, 2005
Policy is NOT abstract...just ask Blockbuster | September 15, 2005
The Five Modes of Arts Participation | September 14, 2005
SOMEBODY must be teaching creative thinking | September 13, 2005
Returning to a classic...Jack Schmidt | September 12, 2005
Packaging and selling your attention | September 09, 2005
Big carrot, big stick | September 07, 2005
Trust, authority, karma, and ''interestingness'' | September 06, 2005
The 'bad-boy' clause | September 02, 2005
Affluent interconnections | September 01, 2005
BlogDay 2005 | August 31, 2005
From the ''you're already doomed'' department | August 30, 2005
Do-it-yourself Beethoven scholarship | August 29, 2005
Maybe we're trying too hard | August 26, 2005
How to gross $100 million and still lose money | August 25, 2005
Defining the artist | August 24, 2005
The new MBAs are here | August 22, 2005
Our version of 'nature vs. nurture' | August 19, 2005
What does it mean to ''stand on your own''? | August 18, 2005
ANOTHER RERUN: What, exactly, are we sustaining? | August 16, 2005
The hot potato of public/private partnerships | August 15, 2005
RERUN WEEK: The problem with purpose | August 12, 2005
RERUN WEEK: Reintegrating our organizations and ourselves | August 11, 2005
RERUN WEEK: The Box | August 09, 2005
RERUN WEEK: Comfortable being out of balance | August 08, 2005
More on the professional-grade amateur | August 05, 2005
Art as the 'last cartel' | August 04, 2005
Do movies matter beyond the gossip they fuel? | August 02, 2005
Understanding teens on-line | August 01, 2005
The laser-like focus of research | July 28, 2005
160 acres and a mule...or an arts district | July 27, 2005
On the fungibility of experience | July 26, 2005
Trust and Consumer Generated Media | July 25, 2005
Connection as competition | July 22, 2005
Alanis Morissette on cultural nonprofit finance structure | July 21, 2005
The rebirth of amateur culture | July 20, 2005
A fresh look for arts research | July 19, 2005
So where's distributed ticketing? | July 18, 2005
Writing a collective story of place | July 15, 2005
Happy anniversary | July 14, 2005
Selling the schools | July 13, 2005
Old growth vs. new sprouts in South Florida | July 12, 2005
Trends that shape(d) 2005 | July 11, 2005
Off for the week | July 05, 2005
Is ''audience'' an antiquated word? | June 30, 2005
A crushing debt | June 29, 2005
Of science and art (again) | June 28, 2005
Fun with Sarbanes-Oxley | June 27, 2005
Unnecessarily separate | June 24, 2005
Relearning conversation skills | June 23, 2005
Espoused mission vs. mission-in-use | June 22, 2005
The stuff you SAY you like vs. the stuff you DO like | June 20, 2005
Rethinking the production/delivery process | June 17, 2005
We won't say we told you so | June 16, 2005
Howdy neighbor | June 15, 2005
Podcasting: Why you should care | June 14, 2005
Who gets to decide what 'performance' means? | June 13, 2005
The crazy frog prince | June 10, 2005
The downside of the ''mushroom method'' | June 09, 2005
Ample parking, but no atmosphere...literally | June 08, 2005
Rockonomics 101 | June 07, 2005
Do you REALLY want to talk? | June 03, 2005
Just a short link... | June 02, 2005
For honor or cash...or something in between | June 01, 2005
When good donors go bad | May 31, 2005
What gets made, what gets seen | May 26, 2005
The Footprints, the Giant, and the Rotarians | May 24, 2005
The Footprints and the Giant | May 23, 2005
Sheboygan bound | May 23, 2005
On better decision-making | May 19, 2005
Now THERE'S a business model | May 18, 2005
Life in bizarro business land | May 17, 2005
Trouble at the Milwaukee Public Museum | May 16, 2005
Fun with keywords and data mining | May 13, 2005
Finding capacity in the cracks | May 12, 2005
My kayak salesman gets it | May 11, 2005
coders + data + curiosity = cool | May 10, 2005
Knowledge vs. magic | May 09, 2005
The statistically improbable phrase | May 06, 2005
Well, there goes THAT argument | May 05, 2005
The essentials of science distilled | May 04, 2005
Deconstructing the symphony (at least a fake one) | May 03, 2005
Radical Restructure at the Fictitious Symphony | May 03, 2005
Take a friend to orchestra month | May 02, 2005
The dance of donors, cities, and arts projects | April 29, 2005
Facing submersion, ship captain decides to take on more water | April 28, 2005
How many users does it take to become odd? | April 27, 2005
The essential unnecessaries | April 26, 2005
The wonderful world of budget games | April 25, 2005
If you ran the government | April 22, 2005
The power of 'slacktivism' | April 21, 2005
Building stale metaphors in stone | April 20, 2005
Seems like only a decade ago | April 18, 2005
The big cultural nonprofit as nation state | April 15, 2005
When you say it with money, you mean it | April 14, 2005
Reconnecting science and art | April 13, 2005
A hammer or a sponge | April 12, 2005
The Simpsons spoof cultural facilities | April 08, 2005
Teaching the unknowable | April 07, 2005
Do what we say, not what we do | April 06, 2005
Stocks, flows, and connectors...oh my | April 05, 2005
The answer, in a word, is 'no' | April 04, 2005
We are not alone | April 01, 2005
If you build it...you'll be sorry | March 31, 2005
The migration of the young professional | March 30, 2005
Charity identity theft | March 29, 2005
It now takes a village to edit a book | March 28, 2005
The stories behind the stubs | March 25, 2005
Universities as urban planners and arts patrons | March 24, 2005
The instant 'season sampler' | March 23, 2005
A new content engine | March 22, 2005
Mergers and inquisitions | March 21, 2005
The higher math of government arts funding | March 16, 2005
The future of independent media | March 15, 2005
The education reflex | March 14, 2005
The blog next door | March 07, 2005
That's how much we want the money | March 04, 2005
The new price of symphony in St. Paul | March 03, 2005
Pricing a la Wal-Mart | March 02, 2005
Yet another hyphenated competitor | March 01, 2005
How much do you want the money? | February 28, 2005
God saves the queen, but HSE saves everyone else | February 25, 2005
The future of philanthropy | February 23, 2005
The no-overhead organization | February 22, 2005
The imported local symphony | February 21, 2005
Midway between cool and creepy | February 18, 2005
Gifts of the Muse | February 17, 2005
Public Art and 'Piles of Sheet' | February 16, 2005
Searching, searching, ever searching | February 15, 2005
Get them young-ens' acculturated | February 11, 2005
Giving circles and community banks | February 10, 2005
What do we buy when we buy music? | February 09, 2005
Toronto Keynote: Managing Metaphors | February 08, 2005
Talking in Toronto | February 08, 2005
The healthy arts leader | February 04, 2005
The end-to-end experience | February 03, 2005
Warehouses and retail | February 02, 2005
Reap what ye sow | February 01, 2005
The rise of the right brain | January 31, 2005
More brain-blinders to watch for | January 27, 2005
Krens and the great rich whale | January 26, 2005
It's all about the peak and the ending | January 25, 2005
Cultural sprawl | January 24, 2005
Feedback on conference panels | January 21, 2005
Dark matter | January 20, 2005
Peanuts, pretzels, art, candy bars, cigarettes | January 19, 2005
Patterns of compensation | January 18, 2005
Hurray for our team | January 13, 2005
Taking brand placement to a whole new place | January 12, 2005
A new approach to conference panels | January 11, 2005
Let's take a break from the word 'change' | January 10, 2005
Exploring common ground in the performing arts | January 07, 2005
Rockettes aftermath | January 06, 2005
More carrots and sticks | January 05, 2005
Carrots and sticks | January 04, 2005
Less of a lecture, more of a conversation | January 03, 2005
Home for the holidays | December 23, 2004
Talk about an enthusiastic audience | December 22, 2004
A major league question | December 21, 2004
Selling what you can't change | December 20, 2004
Convenience at a cost | December 16, 2004
The ol' revenue shuffle | December 14, 2004
Monday brain-bender | December 13, 2004
Myths of the creative workforce | December 10, 2004
A bake sale on steroids | December 09, 2004
Another iPod-inspired techno-trend | December 08, 2004
Uncluttered, unmuddled, unearthed | December 06, 2004
Shrinking media and lagging coverage | December 03, 2004
The Ten Commandments of Arts Advocacy | December 01, 2004
Boxing culture | November 30, 2004
Problems at the PACs | November 29, 2004
Thanksgiving break...go eat something | November 22, 2004
The forest and the trees | November 19, 2004
Evidence of insanity | November 18, 2004
They're busy, but happy about it | November 17, 2004
Continuing sagas from Boston | November 16, 2004
Outreach Midori-style | November 15, 2004
Government and funding and museums...oh my | November 11, 2004
Okay, pretend we didn't ask | November 10, 2004
The stage we can't ignore | November 09, 2004
Blogging your brains out | November 08, 2004
The changing role of producers | November 05, 2004
Social Networking Software | November 04, 2004
Arts partnerships and the public schools | November 02, 2004
Telling compelling stories | November 01, 2004
One sign of a maturing technology | October 28, 2004
Oozing back up | October 27, 2004
On-line goodies | October 26, 2004
Overbuilt: The Sequel | October 25, 2004
Catching a clue from The Cluetrain Manifesto | October 22, 2004
Learning about art and audience from designers | October 21, 2004
Returns on investment | October 19, 2004
Corporate myopia | October 18, 2004
Some Friday diversions and fluff | October 15, 2004
Overbuilt? | October 14, 2004
Value and the arts | October 13, 2004
Process over product | October 12, 2004
What's it worth? | October 08, 2004
Gaining ground by giving it away | October 07, 2004
Exploring the long tail | October 06, 2004
Another false chasm? | October 04, 2004
To serve you better | October 01, 2004
Act big or think small? | September 30, 2004
See what's inside the latest technology | September 29, 2004
When debt is your greatest asset | September 28, 2004
What's in a price tag? | September 27, 2004
Getty Roundtable Weblogs | September 24, 2004
Some games to prove my point (and scare you) | September 24, 2004
GETTY: The perils of partnership | September 23, 2004
Holding open the experience yet to come | September 21, 2004
What's in a web site? | September 20, 2004
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy | September 17, 2004
Let the galas begin | September 17, 2004
For the wanna-be cultural literate | September 16, 2004
The IRS and executive compensation | September 15, 2004
Fill out this survey, or I'll probe your brain | September 14, 2004
The joys of statistics | September 13, 2004
Teaching old books a new trick | September 10, 2004
The silent (audience) killer | September 09, 2004
GETTY: Crafting the audience | September 08, 2004
More on the value of art | September 03, 2004
Roller Coaster Tycoon | September 02, 2004
The next best thing to an arts org. simulator | September 02, 2004
GETTY: More capital ideas | August 31, 2004
New museum model or Trojan horse? | August 30, 2004
GETTY: Some capital ideas | August 25, 2004
Orientation and orienteering | August 24, 2004
The art of the everyday | August 23, 2004
Value solved: This weblog is worth $4,992.64 | August 19, 2004
Finding Forrester | August 18, 2004
GETTY: In search of elbow room | August 17, 2004
Will dance for cash | August 16, 2004
GETTY: Fun with Fungibility | August 13, 2004
GETTY: Nonprofit and for-profit | August 11, 2004
GETTY: Extending a conversation | August 09, 2004
More than half the pie | August 05, 2004
Another take on the org. chart | August 03, 2004
Of costs and control | August 02, 2004
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software | July 29, 2004
Value revisited | July 29, 2004
Go somewhere else | July 28, 2004
Regretting the Walkman | July 27, 2004
Strategic calisthenics | July 26, 2004
Selling out or sifting through? | July 21, 2004
And stop displaying such old stuff | July 20, 2004
The gift that keeps on taking | July 19, 2004
Mike Wallace of the weblog world | July 16, 2004
The value of creative production | July 15, 2004
A year ago today | July 14, 2004
An engine shifting gears | July 12, 2004
Big Night | July 11, 2004
A few odds and ends | July 09, 2004
Cause or effect? | July 08, 2004
Missing the larger point | July 06, 2004
Numbers and rankings and lists | June 30, 2004
The difference that makes a difference | June 29, 2004
Flop or success? Ask the accountant | June 28, 2004
More from Miami's PAC | June 25, 2004
Selling Strads in bulk | June 24, 2004
Come on, get happy | June 23, 2004
Tax reform poster children | June 22, 2004
When in doubt, look to the frogs | June 21, 2004
Some tidbits while my brain cools | June 15, 2004
Off to Pittsburgh | June 04, 2004
Here's a useful thought | June 03, 2004
Just don't start playing solitaire | June 02, 2004
The tyranny of templates | June 01, 2004
Exploding myths | May 26, 2004
The arts uncubator | May 25, 2004
Simple Truth Number Two | May 24, 2004
If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em | May 21, 2004
Thanks for making my point | May 20, 2004
Simple Truth Number One (of more to come) | May 18, 2004
Valuing the arts in Silicon Valley | May 17, 2004
Weblogs extended | May 14, 2004
On collaborative marketing | May 13, 2004
Innovation in a box | May 12, 2004
Invention, innovation, and the arts | May 11, 2004
Back from the brink | May 07, 2004
The high cost of being 'free' | May 04, 2004
Policy | May 04, 2004
Performing arts and higher education | May 03, 2004
A virtual version of 'word of mouth' | April 30, 2004
Debt, spin, and intrigue in Milwaukee | April 28, 2004
Knee deep in the hoopla | April 27, 2004
The hot topic that leaves us cold | April 23, 2004
Conferences, conferences, ever more conferences | April 22, 2004
More on the Neglected Audience | April 21, 2004
Those pesky indirect costs | April 19, 2004
The neglected audience | April 15, 2004
Metaphor marketing and the arts | April 14, 2004
Of unions and antitrust | April 13, 2004
Theater's version of risk management | April 12, 2004
I'm off until April 12 | April 02, 2004
Blending the vacuous and the sublime | April 01, 2004
For fans of the random factoid | March 31, 2004
A more balanced view of de-accessioning | March 30, 2004
The problem with purpose | March 29, 2004
More on value...but now it's just silly | March 26, 2004
How to kill classical music...a pointer | March 25, 2004
Shopping mall responses | March 24, 2004
Get thee to the Getty | March 23, 2004
The performing arts center and the mall | March 22, 2004
Don't change the players, change the game | March 19, 2004
Here come the theaters | March 17, 2004
Stuck in traffic of our own design | March 16, 2004
Three questions worth asking | March 15, 2004
On the road again..again... | March 12, 2004
More on pricing and public relations | March 11, 2004
A changing relationship with music | March 10, 2004
On growth and death | March 09, 2004
A spectrum of response to ticket price increases | March 08, 2004
When cultural experiences fall a bit short | March 04, 2004
Fun with Latin, Best Practices, and New Zealanders | March 03, 2004
Build your own weblog entry (assembly required) | March 02, 2004
Leaving on a jet plane | February 26, 2004
The fight over rent (not the musical) | February 25, 2004
Evangelism responses | February 24, 2004
We can't see where we don't look | February 23, 2004
Do we sell the bottle, or the wine? | February 20, 2004
Open source, not just for hackers anymore | February 19, 2004
Evangelists as arts managers | February 18, 2004
Museums and the perils of success | February 17, 2004
But will the 'living machines' buy opera tickets | February 16, 2004
Action Speaks Louder than Studies | February 14, 2004
The 100th Post | February 13, 2004
Another place that classical music doesn't fit | February 12, 2004
Persistence of vision | February 11, 2004
Arts manager as evangelist | February 10, 2004
Let's just call it negative growth | February 09, 2004
The old (sacred) bait and switch | February 06, 2004
Cash flow (or lack thereof) | February 05, 2004
Only $6 per month for entertainment nirvana | February 04, 2004
The co-construction of the arts experience | February 03, 2004
How people think vs. how we want them to | February 02, 2004
Of local arts, casinos, and economic impact | January 29, 2004
Enabling or unraveling 'the big sort' | January 28, 2004
If they were only smarter, they'd LOVE us | January 26, 2004
Some pointers to keep you busy... | January 22, 2004
The Elusive Goal: a self sustaining, non-profit | January 20, 2004
Storytelling for Arts Administrators | January 19, 2004
Really, really, really knowing your audience | January 16, 2004
Back to the amateurs | January 15, 2004
What's in a name? Lots of problems, that's what | January 13, 2004
A refreshing dose of reality | January 12, 2004
On the road again... | January 09, 2004
A cash-laden update to the Nutcracker story | January 08, 2004
Apple Computer enables a new generation of amateur | January 07, 2004
Do what you say, say what you mean | January 06, 2004
Self-delusion through surveys | January 05, 2004
Sunday in the Park with George | January 04, 2004
Time for a holiday break... | December 23, 2003
Going mobile...the Artful Manager on the road | December 19, 2003
Calm down, keep it simple | December 18, 2003
Mapping the social elite... | December 16, 2003
In search of the REAL organizational chart | December 15, 2003
Art as Experience | December 12, 2003
Peter Drucker makes my point better than I do | December 11, 2003
Word of the Day: Invidious | December 10, 2003
If you only have a hammer. | December 09, 2003
Owning Culture | December 08, 2003
The Anti-Annual Report | December 05, 2003
What about discussing 'worst practices'? | December 04, 2003
Where it rains, it pays | December 02, 2003
What, exactly, are we sustaining? | December 01, 2003
Happy Thanksgiving | November 25, 2003
Selling the Grim | November 24, 2003
Fun with mission statements | November 21, 2003
Arts Administration Training: A rebuttal | November 20, 2003
A little whimsy goes a long way | November 17, 2003
Says you... | November 13, 2003
Oh yeah, this is supposed to be fun | November 10, 2003
Attack of the Rockettes | November 07, 2003
Ousting the Nutcracker | November 06, 2003
Zooming in on economic impact | November 05, 2003
PAC: Miami | November 04, 2003
A new blogger joins the fray | November 03, 2003
Facility Feedback | October 30, 2003
The Edifice Complex | October 28, 2003
Flocking funders | October 27, 2003
Conferencepalooza | October 20, 2003
Positive spin | October 17, 2003
At least we're all going down together | October 16, 2003
Long live the Executive Director (we hope) | October 15, 2003
You are here... | October 14, 2003
What price music? | October 13, 2003
State of the Art | October 13, 2003
My head hurts | October 07, 2003
Rethinking how we think | October 03, 2003
You are what you measure | October 01, 2003
The Creative Commons | September 30, 2003
Brains from a Different Time | September 29, 2003
From the Mouths of Mayors | September 25, 2003
Creative Cities | September 23, 2003
It's all 'Times Roman' to me | September 22, 2003
The lean get leaner... | September 18, 2003
Dancing with Systems | September 16, 2003
Partnership | September 13, 2003
Too many cooks? | September 12, 2003
Free a Book Today | September 11, 2003
Comfortable Being Out of Balance | September 09, 2003
Google's Birthday | September 08, 2003
Canadian Orchestras Unite | September 04, 2003
Is Art Good for Us? | September 02, 2003
Juxtaposition | September 02, 2003
Quotes to Live by | August 26, 2003
The Footprint or the Giant | August 25, 2003
Okay, a Quick Entry and Then a Pause... | August 20, 2003
A Brief Pause | August 19, 2003
Bridging the Gap | August 18, 2003
Cascade Failure | August 15, 2003
How Many Seats Make a Difference? | August 14, 2003
The Domineering Donor | August 13, 2003
That Darn Technology | August 12, 2003
The Box | August 11, 2003
On Being Nonprofit | August 09, 2003
The Lure of Something New... | August 08, 2003
Gone fishing... | August 06, 2003
The Arts Dividend | August 05, 2003
Feedback | August 04, 2003
The Art of Gobbledegook | July 31, 2003
How I Made $14.18 | July 30, 2003
Depends on what your definition of 'is' is... | July 28, 2003
Partner in Crime | July 25, 2003
Mission or Means | July 24, 2003
Reintegrating our organizations and ourselves | July 22, 2003
What does it cost?...What have you got? | July 21, 2003
Imagine there's no money, it's easy if you try. | July 18, 2003
Attend the Arts...or Die... | July 17, 2003
The Clap Trap | July 16, 2003
That's One Big Canary! | July 15, 2003
What's It All About? | July 14, 2003