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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists entertain. But that’s where the comparisons to Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey end. Uncontested space is the gift of Blue Ocean Strategy. The authors use Cirque du Soleil to illustrate this idea. The Cirque audience sits under a striped big top.

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Amazing AI Images for Impact: AI Generators for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Note the clear language to identify the object, the action, the background or context, and then most importantly the artistic style that the output should create. A picture is worth a thousand words. 13 per image.

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Free Report on Nonprofits and Copyright

Tech Soup

One noteworthy part of the report is a comparison among three performance companies, the Metropolitan Opera , Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre , and Misnomer Dance Theater. PICT was in an uncomfortable middle ground: the company used union artists and performed copyrighted works, but lacked the Met's clout.

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Mindfulness, Unplugging and Social Media Envy

Have Fun - Do Good

Witnessing their evolution can inspire you, and, if you put on your comparison glasses, bite you with the envy bug. My favorite cure for social media envy is to use the Jealous Map exercise from Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way : Ask yourself, "Why am I envious of this person?" (e.g. their blog is soooo beautiful).

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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

Museum 2.0

And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. It happened because we: partnered with local artists and community organizations whose passion and generosity made it possible for us to create incredible events. Now, here's our attendance breakdown for the year that just ended.

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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

While The Beatles top both lists when it comes to artist representation, none of the top twenty artists on the Rolling Stone list are women, whereas Billboard has seven. Bob Dylan, the third most represented artist on the Rolling Stone list, doesn't even place in Billboard's top one hundred.

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. Last week inspired by this blog post written by an artist named Tina , I asked my Twitter network, " How would you use Twitter as a listening tool ?" So, do visitors from Twitter simply click and then flit away?

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