I’m finally back from a week in New York, attending more conferences, meetings, and receptions than I would care to count. Lots to spin out and explore in the coming blogs about all I discovered and discussed along the way. A large bulk of my visit (two full days) was spent at the Music & […]
Archives for 2006
Face-time in NYC
Posts were a bit thin this week as I traveled to Manhattan (where I am right now) to engage the arts world in real time (or to put in some “face time,” as the corporate world might say). Many really cool discussions going on here, on music and media, and on the challenges and opportunities […]
500 Posts
Today appears to be my 500th post to The Artful Manager, which is a bit of a shock. I hope a reasonable percentage of those 500 have been useful and engaging. And I hope there are many more to come. As a group celebration of the milestone, let’s all browse the archives!
Finding new ways to find things
There’s a wonderful but still experimental image search engine called retrievr (read about it here, try it here) worth some attention. The search engine allows visitors to draw a rudimentary sketch, and to quickly find images from the flickr photo sharing web site that match. It’s not an exact science, which is what makes it […]
Traveling to NYC
I’m traveling to Manhattan this week for the Music & Media Forum and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters national conference. If you’re there, as well, come by and say ‘hello.’ At Arts Presenters I’m moderating a session by four of my MBA students in Arts Administration, on the topic of "How We Make Meaning," […]
If you build it…well, you know
A few folks in Elgin, Illinois, have been mulling over a new concert hall or performing arts center off and on for a long while now. This Wednesday, the city thought enough of the idea to throw $100,000 at a feasibility study on the subject. The study is intended to explore the readiness of the […]
First cocooning, then hiving, and now ‘insperiences’
The folks at Trendwatching.com see a lifestyle trend coming around again this year, which they’re calling insperiences. As opposed to ‘experiences,’ this trend has consumers bringing more and more high-end leisure and entertainment inside their homes. Says they: ”In a consumer society dominated by experiences in the (semi) public domain — often branded, designed, themed […]
Instead of asking for money, let’s just make our own
A fascinating initiative out of Denmark is working to forge a new international currency out of art (not a metaphorical currency, but an actual tradable commodity). Art Money can be used to buy goods and services (admittedly, not in very many places), and each unit of the money has a defined cash value. According to […]
Heritage vs. the marketplace (the marketplace wins)
NPR had a thoughtful overview last night on the challenge of hearing or distributing even fairly recent American recorded music. According to a study by the Library of Congress discussed in the story, "over 70 percent of American music recorded before 1965 is not legally available in the United States." Through issues of copyright clearance […]
How to post resources to the web
There are three things sure to annoy a blogger or other information junkie: one is to know a resource exists (a report, a study, an event, a conference) but to be unable to find it posted anywhere on the web; another is to discover a valuable resource that has been sitting on-line for a long […]
