I have a guest blog post today for you. I met Samantha at the 2012 National Arts Marketing Project Conference, and we had a good time talking about audience development and arts shenanigans in general. I recently came across her current blog post and thought it would be fantastic to cross post it here. Are…
What do fiscal cliffs and landfills have to do with audience development for the arts? Quite a lot actually. Allow me to explain. The priorities in America and possibly the world are all mixed up these days. When countries are being run by greed for power and money, what is really important in life is…
I am thankful that the election is only a day away. Being from a swing state, I have been bombarded by emails, calls, and commercials. It will be most peaceful on Wednesday, November 7th. One issue that has been brought up is the get out the vote and how this may relate to arts advocacy…
I have a great deal of new adventures to share with you. Next week I will be back to regular blogging, but I thought I would take a moment to update you. I signed up for Soundcloud. I have not added that many tracks yet, but this will be the future location for my Audience…
I am off to Austin, TX for a family wedding. I wanted to post a little something before I leave. Today I have been thinking a variety of random thoughts due to interactions with people: Are we getting caught up on the words? I had someone ask about whether I thought “Community Engagement” was overused. …
I wanted to make sure you were all invited to the #auddev chat we will be having this Thursday: Audiences’ Preferred Connections Co-host Cindy Marie Jenkins, L.A.’s own Storyteller/Outreach Nerd, and I will be conducting a chat about audiences and how they prefer to connect with us. So dig up your latest surveys and let’s…
Oh dear! The headlines today were not very encouraging. More orchestras are locked out, one opera company has to shut down until their bills are paid, and the woe is classical music stories keep popping up too. Yes, we are in the midst of dealing with changes that have already happened, and the classical music…
There is a tiny little debate happening, although it might have been caused by a misunderstanding. It has been brought up that sometimes we need to look at the programming, if (and there it is, if) the programming is no longer selling. We also have to look at the marketing messages and branding, the audience…
I was using the Storify export function, and it wigged out. I apologize for the repeated bogus posts. Here is the actual chat transcript I was attempting to post: [View the story “#Auddev chat, 9/27, Noon ET – Arts, Change & Audiences” on Storify] Cheers to happy and loyal audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Audience Development…
This morning I am literally in tears over an article I just read, I took my 9-year-old to the opera, and she loved it, although it may be due to the combination of articles this morning. The articles this morning ranged from arts education, let’s do this – to talks about better Boards – to…
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