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When Was The Last Time You Updated Your Website Policy?

Friday, June 29th, 2018Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 by Drew McManus

Rules and regulations surrounding internet use are anything but consistent. Take website policies for example. Does your organization have the exact same polices in place now you crafted three years ago? If so, you’re going to want to update those because they are so very out of date. Privacy regulations alone are continuously fluctuating. Case in point, the Republican controlled congress is set to repeal a slew of online privacy protections. …

Counting The Costs Q&A

Thursday, September 20th, 2018Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 by Drew McManus

Last week’s mega-article examining how much orchestra string musicians spend to equip, maintain, and repair their instruments over the course of their career generated a tremendous amount of reader feedback/questions across social media and email. Throughout those discussions, a few items popped up more than others and I wanted to take today’s post to cover those. Do the figures include purchasing the instrument and bow? No. In addition to the exclusions …

The Latest Instance Of Peer Review Problems

Monday, March 27th, 2017 by Drew McManus

The 3/22/2017 edition of the Indianapolis Business Journal published an article by Lindsey Erdody that reports on an Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) musician is accusing music director, Krzysztof Urbansk, of age discrimination. What’s interesting to note is Erdody’s examination of the internal process used by the music director and general manager, which reportedly contributed to current problems. Unfortunately, difficulties related to age discrimination and failing to follow a contractually mandated artistic …

Counting The Costs

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018Friday, March 24th, 2017 by Drew McManus

Have you ever wondered how much string musicians spend to equip, maintain and repair their instruments? Drew McManus spills the beans, and then counts them.

Why Yes, You Should Talk To Your Neighbors About Saving The NEA

Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 by Drew McManus

Work deadlines and preparations for the string instrument cost of ownership mega-article are keeping me at max capacity busy so today’s post is a pointer to an enormously useful resource article from Joe Patti on why it is important to talk to your neighbors about saving the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and how to go about doing it. In turn, Joe’s article forks a post from Margy Waller on the …