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Breaking Up With Adobe

Published Tue, Feb 20, 18 at 3:55 pm | Updated Thu, Feb 22, 18 at 1:37 am by David MacDonald

It’s not you, Adobe. It’s me. You see, I am a long time Adobe software user. I started using the institutional licenses in school at the University of Missouri, and Adobe Creative Suite 3 was one of the first pieces of “pro” software I ever purchased. After CS6, when Adobe moved to the Creative Cloud subscription plans, I was torn. On one hand, it was going to be expensive. On the other hand, I used this software an awful lot, and I always got excited about new features when they became available. … Read more

With Great Research Comes Great Responsibility

Published Tue, Jan 23, 18 at 2:00 am | Updated Tue, Jan 23, 18 at 9:11 am by Joe Patti

One of the more positive developments in the last decade or so has been the increased investment in research about factors that impact arts and cultural organizations. Even better news, in the last few years those assembling that information have started organizing the data and formatting it so that it is much easier to read and understand. The 2017 iteration of the Culture Track study we recently wrote about is one example. Instead of dense sections of text, information has been broken up into smaller segments and are accompanied by visualizations that … Read more

(Re-Examining) Co-Leadership As An Organizational Model

Published Tue, Dec 12, 17 at 2:00 am | Updated Tue, Dec 12, 17 at 9:25 am by Joe Patti

Given the concerning lack of transition planning for leadership, there is increasing discussion about how general non-profits should adopt a shared leadership model, in some cases citing the example of the performing arts. In the meantime, many performing arts organizations have been moving in the opposite direction consolidating artistic and business management roles into a single person in order to save money. The performing arts model, as well as some of those suggested in the other articles I have linked to, tend to have the roles separated along right brain/left brain responsibilities … Read more