Marketing and Engagement: Both good marketing and community engagement are rooted in knowing (by asking them rather than by assuming) the people you are trying to reach. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/11…

Getting It Right: Thoughts on becoming valued by our communities in a post-pandemic world. artsjournal.com/engage/2021/11…

The Community Engagement Network will be hosting a Conversation on "The Future of Community Engagement" on Friday, February 11 from Noon to 1:00 pm EST. For information and registration details visit artsjournal.com/engage/communi….

ICYMI: The Community Engagement Network will be hosting a Conversation on "The Future of Community Engagement" on Friday, February 11 from Noon to 1:00 pm EST. For information and registration details visit artsjournal.com/engage/communi….

museumtwo.blogspot.com/2022/02/do-we-… Brilliant seema rao

Results from ommunity engagement can take time. It is the incalculable value of community engagement that it is the only way to fill the increasing viability gap that we face. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/03…

In some cases, relationship repair is required before any attempt at "sales" can begin. Community engagement is the only means toward that end. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

The Community Engagement Network will be hosting a Conversation on Research in Community Engagement on Friday, April 29 from Noon to 1:00 pm EDT. For information and registration details visit artsjournal.com/engage/communi…. (See the top of that page for joining the Network.)

The time has come to apply greater rigor to evaluating engagement processes, results, and the state of community engagement in the nonprofit arts industry. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

We often assume that everyone thinks about the arts as we do because the way we think about the arts is so normal to us. However, once we learn otherwise, if we do not adjust, the fallout from not doing so is all on us artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

The Community Engagement Network will be hosting a Conversation on Research in Community Engagement on Friday, April 29 from Noon to 1:00 pm EDT. For information and registration details visit artsjournal.com/engage/communi…. (See the top of that page for joining the Network.)

Unexamined assumptions can get in the way of successfully engaging with communities. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/04…

Far too few people to see the arts as important to them. The only solution available to us is to DO things that make the arts important to more people. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/05…

A new perspective and approach from the author of Engaging Matters. artsjournal.com/engage/2022/09…

Deadly Sin: I artsjournal.com/engage/2023/02…

Arrogance (even if unconscious) is the core of the inability to form constructive relationships with individuals and communities beyond our current constituencies. artsjournal.com/engage/2023/02…

There is no substitute for the listening and learning that effective engagement requires and there is no substitute for effective engagement if we are to make our organizations viable for the long term. artsjournal.com/engage/2023/02…

The news media would provide unlimited coverage to the arts if the public insisted upon it. To be valued like that we must do things that make us so. artsjournal.com/engage/2023/03…