Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
There’s nothing quite like working on a project where you really get to push some boundaries and break out of the old trying to catch up by going slower routine. Case in point, I launched a new Venture user website this week for composer Jim Stephenson. If you aren’t already familiar with Jim’s work, it’s amazing. He’s the next big thing when it comes to living composers. But I digress, this …
With the launch of the new Adaptistration Store, the ability to offer content beyond the long-standing Coffee Tip product (which are always appreciated!) is finally available. The initial offering is the first in a new series of resource based downloadable content; specifically, Orchestra IRS Forms 990 used in each year of the Orchestra Compensation Reviews. So what makes these so special? They are grouped by season. The default random alpha-numeric filenames …
Just when you thought the Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) may have been able to take off its PR damage control hat, the New York Times published a wonderfully comprehensive article by Michael Cooper on 9/18/2017 that thrust everything back into the limelight. Cooper provides all the overview and backstory needed to fully understand the scope of why this is such an excellent study in PR crisis management. In addition to well-worn …
Since launching the redesign, it turns out one of the most popular new pages is the Guest Author archive. As such, I wanted to take a moment and point it out along with listing some of the most popular guest author posts over the years (so far!): Without a doubt, one of the most popular authors is acoustician Christopher Blair. He has been contributing posts since 2009 on the topic of concert …
There are all sorts of reasons why you might need to temporarily block a page from Google search results but for performing arts orgs, one of the most common is purposefully duplicate content. For example, a theater client of mine has a show they stage every few years; it has the same title and although the content, staging, etc. are updated each cycle, Google may place the older event page higher …