Leadership Teleconferences
TCG is proud to offer a new series of teleconferences for trustees
and staff of our member theatres. Leadership Teleconferences,
a program of the TCG Trustee Leadership Network, will include presentations
by experts in various fields who will give their unique perspective
on a topic and then will engage in a dialogue with a moderator and
a pre-selected panel. Participants will listen to the presentation
and have the opportunity to email questions for the speaker. This
program offers trustees and staff an opportunity to hear the challenges,
strategies and solutions that affect our field, our communities
and our nation. Participation in the Leadership Teleconference
Series is only open to trustees and staff at TCG member organizations.
We are always interested in ideas for future Leadership Teleconferences. Please contact Chris Shuff with your suggestions.
Past Leadership Teleconferences
Using Social Media Strategically for Theatres
A presentation by Beth Kanter
Thursday, April 29, 2010
1:00pm - 2:15pm ET
Join Beth Kanter, social media guru and co-author of The Networked Nonprofit, as she shares her insights about how to effectively integrate social media with your theatre's internet strategy or marketing plan. She will also talk about how to address organizational culture issues that often arise when new technology is introduced. This Leadership Teleconference will help you learn how to think strategically about social media for audience development and external communications strategies for your theatre in order to maximize staff time and resources.
NEW! Audio transcript now available! Click here for the audio transcript.
Presenter:
Beth Kanter is the author of Beth's
Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of
the longest running and most popular blogs for not-forprofits, and
co-author of the forthcoming book, The Networked Nonprofit,
to be published by J. Wiley in 2010. Beth is the CEO of Zoetica,
a company that serves not-for-profits and socially conscious companies
with top-tier online marketing services. A much in demand speaker
and trainer, she was the keynote speaker for the Cambodian Bloggers
Conference in Phnom Penh, The Connecting Up Conference in Brisbane,
Australia, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits, Making Media Conference
in Chicago and others. She has presented about not-for-profits and
social media at some of the leading social media industry conferences
including O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns, Gnomedex, SWSX, Blogher
and Podcamp.
Beth curated NTEN's "We Are Media: Nonprofit Social Media Starter
Kit," an online community of people from nonprofits who are interested
in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools
can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile and distribute
their stories and change the world. Beth contributed a chapter to
"Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for
Nonprofit Leaders," edited by NTEN. In 2009, she was named by Fast
Company as one of the most influential women in technology
and one of Business Week's "Voices of Innovation
for Social Media." She is the 2009 Visiting Scholar for Social Media
and Nonprofits for the Packard Foundation.
Twitter as Audience-Builder and
Branding Tool
A presentation by Callie Kimball
Thursday, July 30, 2009
2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Everyone's talking about Twitter, but what does it have to
offer arts organizations? Several theatres are using Twitter in
creative ways to engage with their audience and reach out to new
theatre-goers. This teleconference is for novices as well as for
people who already use Twitter and want to learn more. After a quick
review of the basics, we'll explore how to identify and attract
"followers," how to decide who should Twitter on behalf
of your organization, how Twitter differs from Facebook, basic Twitter
etiquette and ways of creating an authentic Twitter voice. Examples
of arts organizations using Twitter effectively will be shared.
Click here
and here
to download the visual aids accompanying the presentation (PDFs).
NEW! Audio
transcript now available! Click
here
for the audio transcript.
Presenter:
Callie Kimball is a playwright, performer and blogger in
New York City, and she works in Digital Media at NBC Universal.
In June, she spoke about how arts organizations are using Twitter
creatively at the #140 Character Conference in NYC. She's deeply
interested in the opportunities and ethical challenges of social
media, especially in the power of social media to bring attention
to the most marginalized members of society and their advocates.
She is the literary manager of Red Bull Theater, served as regional
representative (DC) for the Dramatists Guild of America and was
a MacDowell Fellow in 2006. Visit her website at www.calliekimball.com.
Innovating Through A Crisis: Theatre Companies
Talk About the Current Financial Reality and What They're Doing
About It
A panel discussion moderated by Brad Erickson of Theatre
Bay Area with panelists Tiffany Cothran, Heather Kitchen, Lisa Mallette,
Susie Medak, Jess Moreles, Ryan Rilette and Sherri Young
Thursday, May 28, 2009
1:00pm - 2:15pm EDT
Participants in this joint teleconference by TCG and
Theatre Bay Area will discuss the findings of the snapshot survey,
Taking
Your Fiscal Pulse: A Report on the Fiscal Health of the San Francisco
Bay Area Theatre Community, the current financial reality
and what theatre companies of various sizes in the Bay area are
doing about it.
NEW! Audio
transcript now available! Click
here
for the audio transcript.
Taking
Your Fiscal Pulse: What Are the Implications for Your Theatre?
A panel discussion moderated by David Hawkanson with panelists
J. Scott Atherton, Elisbeth Challener, Paula Tomei and Chris Widdess
Thursday, March 19, 2009
2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
This teleconference will lead participants through
the findings of TCG's latest snapshot survey, Taking Your Fiscal
Pulse: January 2009. Click
here to download the report. A panel of esteemed theatre leaders
(from various budget group-sized theatres) will then provide context
to the findings, discuss the fiscal realities facing theatres today
and offer strategies to cope during this economic downturn. There
will also be an opportunity for participants to offer comments and
ask questions of the panelists.
NEW! Audio
transcript now available! Click
here
for the audio transcript.
Moderator:
David Hawkanson: (Executive Director, Steppenwolf Theatre)
Prior to Steppenwolf, David Hawkanson was the managing director
of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the artistic
leadership of Joe Dowling. Before his arrival at the Guthrie, he
served for eight years as the managing director of Hartford Stage
Company in Connecticut. In the years prior to his tenure at Hartford
Stage, Hawkanson was managing director for the Arizona Theater Company
and a guest administrator at San Francisco’s American Conservatory
Theater. He was a former senior staff member at the National Endowment
for the Arts and subsequently chairman of its Theater Program.
He has also had an active career as an arts consultant and board
member for such organizations as the Kennedy Center Fund for New
American Plays, the Ford Foundation's Working Capitol Fund, National
Arts Stabilization Fund, Alliance for Arts Advocates, League of
Resident Theatres, Theatre Trustees of America, TCG, New York Stage
and Film, the American Arts Alliance and Door County’s Peninsula
Players, where he is an honorary board member. In Chicago, he is
a board member of the Illinois Arts Alliance and the League of Chicago
Theatres.
Panel:
J. Scott Atherton (Manager of Administration
and Development, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble)
Elisbeth Challener (Managing Director, Zachary Scott
Theatre Center [ZACH])
Paula Tomei (Managing Director South
Coast Repertory)
Chris Widdess (Managing Director, Penumbra
Theatre)
Theatre Facts 2007: Everything
You Wanted To Know but Were Afraid To Ask!
A Presentation by Zannie Giraud Voss
Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm (EDT)
NEW! Audio transcript now available! Click here for more information and the audio transcript.
The Contributed Income Quest: New Strategies to Maximize
Results
A Conversation with Dory Vanderhoof
Wednesday, June 25, 2:00pm to 3:30pm (EDT)
Click here for more information
and an audio transcript.
Perspectives on the Economy
A Conversation with Robert Rubin
Thursday, April 17 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm (EDT)
Click here for more information
and an audio transcript.
If you have any questions please contact Chris Shuff, Director of Management Programs, via e-mail at cshuff@tcg.org or phone at 212.609.5900 x 248.