Mile-High Musings on Arts, Culture, Creativity and Philanthropy

So as many of my readers will now, I spent the last few days at the Americans for the Arts convention in Baltimore (along with many of you!). I spoke at a session on arts blogging, along with Graham Dunstan who oversees the Americans for the Arts ArtsBlog , Barry Hessenius of Barry's Blog , and Chad Bauman of Arts-Marketing . The session was also attended by such widely-read arts bloggers as Andrew Taylo r and Ian David Moss . [That's Graham, Chad, me and Barry in the photo - "the arts bloggers posse". I added the photo to this entry after I first posted it, when I discovered this photo on the Americans for the Arts Flicker site.] I also attended a session on utilizing new social media (like Twitter, blogs and Facebook) that featured Brian Reich , whose company is little m media . His mother, an Americans for the Arts board member who I am friendly with calls him "the next Dan Pink."  Now while this may be to some extent parental bias, I wouldn't rule ...