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Another Twitter battle in the making…Pogue vs. Marshelak
So, David Pogue whose column I read in the Times and have probably since he started it, had a great idea. He is a twitter user @Pogue, and tends to send out questions or thoughts of the day as Tweets. His idea was a book of Twitter questions and answers – whole post below because it is short. …
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Relationships!
I don’t care about the economy there are some things we can’t afford not to do! We can’t afford to stop communicating or planning during the downturn. Now is the time to build/strengthen relationships. I was talking to a development director the other day who was saying that she didn’t even want to …
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Save money on employee benefits (and increase your coverage)!
Ken Davenport wrote a post last week about the outrageous costs of healthcare on commercial shows. It created a lot of conversations in the blogosphere and beyond. At last night’s American Theatre Magazine Benefit, I spoke to several people who were in the process of trying to cut expenses and worri …
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Embrace Technology!?!
The Wall Street Journal featured a wonderful take on digital books by Steve Johnson, that is both realistic about embracing technological advances and fascinating about exploring the possible positive advances to the literary form (and some of the negatives). How the E-Book Will Change the Way We R …
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Mike Daisey
So for the last year or so I have missed each opportunity I had to see Mike Daisey - How Theatre Failed America. I had read the essay that originally inspired it, and I found that there were things I agreed with and things I didn't. Missing the performance didn't really bother much until now. Rea …
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Regional - the word
David Dower at the New Play Blog (Is "Regional" A Pejorative Term?) examines my post, Why I hate REGIONAL theatre, which was about the word "REGIONAL" and some of the negativity attached to the word within the theatre community. David suggests I embrace my inner regional-ness (although I think we …
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Harvard Business Publishing Management Tip of the Day, April 15, 2009
Great tips and article link below. In times like these we forget how impactful our words can be to our staffs, boards, and other constituencies. These are some good rules to live by! Harvard Business Publishing Management Tip of the Day:APRIL 15, 20094 Ways to Talk Tough Without Creating PanicWhi …
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5 things to do for your staff today!
Without a staff an organization is nothing. So take a moment and do something for the wonderful people who work with you today (notice I said with not for).1. Celebrate a success. It doesn't matter how big or little but take a moment and celebrate an achievement from the past week2. Eat somethin …
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Why I hate REGIONAL theatre
Now that I have your attention.What I hate is the word "regional" and what it has come to imply and more or less mean.It seems like every day I find another person talking about "putting the regional back in regional theatre" or "making things local." When I read the folks post (see below links), I …
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Charity Navigators 10 predictions for the future and what affect they might have on the arts - most …
Ken Berger (President & CEO of Charity Navigator) posted his 10 predictions about the non-profit sector on his blog. He provides detailed thoughts behind his predictions but here they are in short:1. Increased Funding by the Federal Government2. Decreased Funding from Other Sources3. Rising Dem …
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Book time to think!
For theatre people crisis management is easy. It is technically what we do for a living. Production is one series of crisis management after another â even on the best of shows. We are often doing more than one show at once so we are constantly juggling crisis and topics. This makes strategic …
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12 things to learn about each donor or audience member
As a follow-up to my post about box office and front of house staff, I got several emails about what kind of information should staff try to learn about their customers beyond how they heard about the show they are seeing. Any information is good information, but below are the top 12 things I try …
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Better box office and front of house service keeps your customers coming back – almost as much as …
Several months ago, I wrote a post on market research for theatre – who to talk to, where audiences might come from, and initial methodology that I have been meaning to revisit for ages. My Harvard Business Publishing update reminded me of it but brought up some really important ideas that I want …
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Lose the department borders and territorialism! Assign tasks by expertise!
There are way too many walls in a nonprofit theatre office, and it is creating problems. It is time to break down some walls and blur the lines between what each department does. If you have a great staff they will work better together if we follow the way we handle shows for every major task we h …
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Better box office and front of house service keeps your customers coming back ??? almost as much as …
Several months ago, I wrote a post on market research for theatre ??? who to talk to, where audiences might come from, and initial methodology that I have been meaning to revisit for ages. My Harvard Business Publishing update reminded me of it but brought up some really important ideas that I want …
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Better box office and front of house service keeps your customers coming back â almost as much as …
Several months ago, I wrote a post on market research for theatre â who to talk to, where audiences might come from, and initial methodology that I have been meaning to revisit for ages. My Harvard Business Publishing update reminded me of it but brought up some really important ideas that I want …
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Better box office and front of house service keeps your customers coming back – almost as much as y …
Several months ago, I wrote a post on market research for theatre – who to talk to, where audiences might come from, and initial methodology that I have been meaning to revisit for ages. My Harvard Business Publishing update reminded me of it but brought up some really important ideas that I wanted …
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A get together for independent theatre bloggers!
Blogger Social! Ken Davenport has come up with another great idea! A independent theatre blogger get together. Who shoudl come and what not is on Ken's post - hit the link. He also is taking RSVPs by comment, but the pertinent details are:1ST Theater Bloggers Social:Thursday, April 23rd6 PM - 8 …
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Cris-i-tunity
The post below is something I wrote for a new blog or perhaps even a book that I plan to start writing soon. It has been on the sidebar of Off-Stage-Right for a while, but some readers suggested I bring attention to it by making it a post. I will still leave it on the sidebar, it is a guide for me …
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What is this blog? Why am I writing it?
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