Catch The Podcasting Wave

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Although they have been around for more than a decade, podcasts have proven to be one of those digital mediums with sticking power. But if you don’t know how to go about creating and distributing your content, you can end up with a great idea that may end up doing more harm than good. Fortunately, ArtsHacker has been publishing a three-part series on how to go about podcasting the right way. …

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Hey Foundations: Here’s A Great Idea For Your Next Project

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In the summer of 2015, the rural Swiss village of Graubunden launched a unique marketing campaign designed to pull more tourist traffic from cities to their mountain village (h/t Samantha Teter). Remarkably straightforward, it leveraged real-time streaming technology and the value of one-to-one connections over traditional passive advertisements. It features a digital kiosk with a local Graubunden resident live video chatting with train commuters. The affable man convinces commuters to hop on the …

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Orchestra Compensation Reports Haikus

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Most of us aren’t poets but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stretch our creative legs every now and then by writing some prose. And with the task of sifting through 65 orchestra IRS form 990s to extract data for June’s orchestra compensation reports at hand, it seemed fitting to revel in a bit of creativity by way of compensation report haikus before disappearing into the quantitative data mines. Buried deep in …

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If Providing Company Cell Phones Has Been Too Expensive, Take A Look At Google’s Project Fi

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A few weeks ago, we conducted a poll asking arts managers and artists if their employer provided a company cell phone/plan. Just over 200 readers replied with an 80/20 split between managers and artists and perhaps unsurprisingly, the poll confirmed that the vast majority do not receive a company cell phone. But there’s more to the story. You can view the poll results directly but here’s the nutshell version: Only 17 …

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Trump Not Interested In Supporting Philharmonic Board Chair

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Long before he was the GOP presumptive nominee, The Donald was a gag for one of Who’s Minding The Score? comics. At the time, no one working on the strip had an inkling that the person selected* to exemplify a stereotypical rich d-bag would end up where he is today. The strip features a bunch of other prognostic dark humor too. You should go binge read it.