Year: 2016

How Satisfied Are You With Your Ticketing Software?

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Adaptistration People 174

While performing some work for Venture clients recently, my development team and I found the need to perform some research and in the process, I reached into my files for a resource that I sadly neglected to mention here when it was released: The 2015 Ticketing Software Satisfaction Survey report from Carnegie Mellon’s Arts Management & Technology Laboratory. Published every few years (or so), the report continues to grow into an …

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Solving Problems, One App At A Time

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resource manager

One of the really fun parts about working as an arts-focused software developer is coming across opportunities to solve big problems. To that end, we’re wrapping up work on a new web app designed to solve one of the most time consuming and frustrating problems: resource scheduling. One of our existing users, The Society Of The Four Arts, manages several venues each with a wide variety of shared and unique resource …

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As National Political Conventions Convene, Could The Culture Cold War Turn Hot?

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Adaptistration Guy Trump

The Culture Wars from the latter decades of the 20th century managed to produce an ugly scar across the public arts funding landscape and although public debate tempered, the struggle was far from over. But unlike the very public debate that raged across national media during the 1980s and 1990s, recent battle grounds have emerged behind closed doors. Recent attempts to defund the US Military Music program are an excellent example …

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Is It Possible To Manage A Large Budget Orchestra Using Mostly Consultants?

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Adaptistration Biz Guys

It certainly isn’t unheard of for larger budget orchestras to hire consultants for everything from temporarily filling staff holes to serving as the architect for marketing or development campaigns but relying on third party providers for the majority of admin functionality is decidedly not the norm. Nonetheless, that’s where the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is headed so if you’ve ever been curious about how that might work out, you may have …

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When Was The Last Time You Saw A Genuinely Impressive Video Promo?

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Adaptistration People 154

Norman Lebrecht posted an item at Slippedisc.com yesterday poking fun at what he calls “the worst-ever orchestra promo video” and I have to agree, it’s entirely uninspiring. But Lebrecht’s post got me thinking about video promos in general and I found it difficult to think of anything that really caught my attention over the past few years. There is no shortage of promos with excellent production quality but they tend to …

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