FROM TC: I'm taking tomorrow off.  YCM will return next week.

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Twitter Feed Crossover Edition

The majority of you who receive YCM emails miss out on additional items I post on my Twitter account which don't fit naturally into my themed email editions of You've Cott Mail. Here are some news stories and commentary that I've posted on Twitter recently. --Thomas

FOLLOW UP TO RECENT YCM STORIES

• Silk Road Rising: "Mary Responds: My Interview with Mary Zimmerman."
• Philips allays theatre designers' fears over future of tungsten lamps
• No retroactive Pritzker Prize for Denise Scott Brown, but she remains eligible in future
   

INTERNATIONAL

• Olivier Awards bow to pressure, will give new prize for original music for plays, orchestration or musical direction
• Leading arts institutions join first UK-wide family arts festival
• Nigeria's first contemporary musical hopes to revive beleaguered local arts scene
   

ARTS EDUCATION

• What a little chaos theory can do: using math to generate new musical ideas
• Now that science has shown how dance benefits the brain, why not offer dance education to all kids as their brains develop?
• Advancing Arts Ed through an expanded school day: lessons from 5 schools
   

FINANCIAL / FUNDRAISING

• Fundraising's Lost Decade: Researchers say it will take until 2018 for most nonprofit orgs to raise as much as they did in 2007
• Arts/culture was fastest-growing US philanthropic cause in 2012, rising 7.8%
• In an historic move, Guidestar, Charity Navigator & Better Business Bureau jointly denounce overhead ratio as measure of a nonprofit's worth
• NY State Atty General seeks to free NY charities from outdated red-tape
• Lawsuit filed to prove "Happy Birthday" song is in public domain, seeks payback of millions in license fees

DIGITAL / SOCIAL / MOBILE

• On the future of music: Technology is amazing, but "if we game-ify an art form, we risk losing its most valuable facets."
• Students broadcast their music from a dorm converted into giant digital radio transmitter   

MARKETING / AUDIENCE / SALES

• Is it time to rethink the whole casting-movie-stars-in-Broadway-shows idea?
• Offering free art workshops to underprivileged communities where many people already gather: the laundromat