Today’s post is just a pointer to another discussion unfolding on the Internet. My weblog neighbor Greg Sandow is writing a book ”out loud” — that is, he’s posting sections of what will become a book, and asking the world to respond, argue, enhance, edit, and engage with that process. If you have any interest […]
Measuring the creative community
One of the problems in measuring the health of any community’s cultural ecology is that you first have to determine what a healthy cultural ecology looks like. If you don’t have an ideal state in mind, you end up with random and irrelevant measures (dollars spent by nonprofits, dinners bought by patrons, room nights in […]
Greetings from Ottawa!
Having a wonderful time at the CAPACOA conference in Ottawa. Wish you were here. Please send money and duty-free liquor. As promised to my wonderful audience this morning, here’s the text of my keynote address delivered fresh and piping hot: [ If Culture Counts, How Do We Count It? ]
If Culture Counts, How Do We Count It?
A keynote address to the Canadian Arts Presenters Association (CAPACOA) on November 5, 2005, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Off to Ottawa
I’m off to Ottawa to speak to the good folks at CAPACOA for their conference, Culture Counts: Measuring the Value of the Arts. As always, I’ll post my keynote to this weblog shortly after I deliver it. Hope to see some of you there!
Tell your donors now (if you haven’t already)!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy outlines the unique tax benefits available to donors if they give to any nonprofit before the end of the year. Says the article: President Bush last month signed into law a measure that allows donors to write off up to 100 percent of their income for cash donations they made from […]
What do you really need to know to connect?
Mark Swed of the LA Times poses some great questions in his recent Critic’s Notebook. The core of the issue is this: how much do we really need to know about an art work to connect with it? Says he: Do you understand a piece of music better if you know its secrets, or does […]
Arts on iTunes
In response to my post last week on Stanford’s iTunes initiative, several folks wrote to tell me about arts organizations entering the on-line distribution business. Here are a few: The Gürzenich Orchestra in Germany offers concert-goers a CD of the performance as they leave the hall. They now make available the ”best versions” of the […]
Stanford on iTunes
Kind of a cool initiative over at Stanford University, where they’ve created a special section of the Apple iTunes music store to distribute audio and video content to the world and to their own. Their overview says the initiative has two parts: a public site, targeted primarily at alumni, which will include Stanford faculty lectures, […]
The rankness of rankings
Urban and Regional Planning professor Peter Fisher offers a wonderful dressing down of five national ”business climate rankings” that seek to define the best places in the nation for business. His primary concerns: The underlying problem with the five indexes is twofold: none of them actually do a very good job of measuring what it […]
