(OK, here’s the follow-up. Enjoy!)
TALKS AND SPEECHES YOU MISSED
- Marc Vogl and Jeanne Sakamoto of the Hewlett and Irvine Foundations, respectively, hosted a Grantmakers in the Arts webinar on the subject of retaining emerging leaders in the arts field. Here is the full 40-minute presentation, and Marc and Jeanne have also put together a NextGen Arts Leadership microsite with other resources on wikispaces.
- Andrew Taylor gave this keynote at the Arts Enterprise Summit in Kansas City last month called “The Art of the Business Model.” And he had a co-keynote with the wonderful Russell Willis Taylor at American University’s Spring Colloquium, which you can view here.
- Nina Simon’s keynote from the 2010 NODEM conference on design for participation.
THE LETTER OF THE LAW
- Did you know that Canada has a law against the broadcasting of false news?
- Great analysis from my Fractured Atlas colleague Marie Ortiz on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as health insurance reform.
PUBLISHING AND THE ACADEMY
- The American Association of University Presses considers new business models for university publishing.
- Christopher Madden argues for the role of academic publishing in strengthening international cultural policy.
- Lucy Bernholz considers the future of the publishing and information industries.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
- Pianist Vijay Iyer is one of the smartest thinkers in the arts anywhere (his undergraduate degree was in cognitive science). His essay on supply and demand from a jazz perspective is a must read. (h/t Brian Newman, who extends the argument to film.)
- Future of Music Coalition looks at how musicians make money.
- If the demand for new teaching jobs is so much higher than supply, why are salaries for newly hired econ professors still so high?
- In honor of Marginal Revolution’s migration to WordPress, here is a quartet of good reads from that site: prediction that small-government policies actually lead to bigger government in the end; considering the consumer surplus of the internet; thoughts on common mistakes of right-wing and left-wing economists, with summary by Arnold Kling; and thoughts on common mistakes of economists in general (thank you Ezra Klein!).
TRENDS AND THOUGHT PIECES
- We focus a lot of attention on using arts and culture to reframe urban life. But what about the suburbs? Yonah Freemark imagines a more sustainable suburbia.
- Doug McLennan writes of the walled garden problem and the economic incentives for new technologies not to adhere to the open-standards practices that have helped us make so much technological progress over the past couple of decades.
- Crowd-curation marches on, this time at museums.
PARTNERSHIPS, MERGERS, AND EXPANSIONS
- CultureBot’s Jeremy Barker marks the public debut of New York Live Arts, the new company formed by the merger of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop.
- Not a merger, but this collaboration between fellow Lincoln Center tenants the Metropolitan Opera and Juilliard does beg the question of why it didn’t happen sooner.
- More on the Awesome Foundation’s, uh, awesome growth.
PLANNING AND EVALUATION
- GiveWell describes an interesting method for self-evaluation: giving an independent observer a chunk of money to allocate using GiveWell and other sources, and testing how useful GiveWell was in the process. It’s kind of like a lab experiment for smart giving.
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy has released its strategic plan for 2011-14.
NEW PROJECTS AND RESOURCES
- Foundation Source Access is a new fundraising website from Foundation Source, a company providing back-end services to many small family foundations. While at first glance it might seem redundant with other types of crowdfunding sites aimed at individual donors, this project is interesting because of the audience. The huge national foundations don’t control all that much of the nation’s institutional giving, but it’s always been difficult to tap family foundation money without personal connections because of those organizations’ lack of infrastructure. If family foundations actually use this tool to seek out grantees instead of sticking with the tried and true (and that’s a big if), it could be an important new resource for fundraisers.
- Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist) is launching craigconnects, a project to curate nonprofits and get them wider attention.
- TicketForce is looking to sell tickets to your Facebook events…in Facebook. (Thanks to Thomas Cott for the above two links.)
- Travel search engine Hipmunk has a new mapping overlay feature for its hotel searches. You can now see heat maps of food, shopping, tourist opportunities, and “vice” in the area around your hotel. I tried it out in my own neighborhood and found the data a bit suspect, but it’s still an interesting and very practical application of cultural asset mapping.
- The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies has a cool new resource called “Ask IFACCA.” Not only will they take your questions, they’ll publish some of the answers as well. Geek out alert!
- Great to see the DiMenna Center for Classical Music (new home of Orchestra of St. Luke’s) up and running in Manhattan, especially since the genesis of the project was a 2004 feasibility study by Exploring the Metropolis.