Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
There’s a terrific article by Barry Courter in the 4/8/18 edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Courter followed the musicians from Arts Capacity on their most recent program bringing live music to inmates at Georgia’s Walker State Prison. The result is a wonderfully detailed account of the program along with direct feedback from inmates attending the program. I was planning on writing something about the program as the promised follow up to …
If you’ve been stuck in the unseasonably cold stretch of weather plaguing the Midwest and Northeast, you deserve a last-minute biz trip to somewhere warm, fun, and full of teachable moments. It just so happens the 2018 Nonprofit Technology Conference is next week (teachables: check) and it’s in New Orleans (warm and fun: double check). It’s not too late to register, find a cheap last-minute airfare, and book a hotel (it’s …
On two occasions this past week, I had colleagues reach out with questions about how to recover login credentials for a Google account because the organizational email address set as the account owner was either deleted or no longer accessible. In both cases, the groups gave up and simply started new accounts. The result was losing multiple years of valuable metrics data. It’s an unpleasant situation to be in and in …
Joe Patti keeps sucking me in with his headlines and yesterday’s post was no exception: Probably The Only Time Comic Sans Is Appropriate In A Planning Document. If I’m being honest, I didn’t even read the rest of the article because it made me wonder what actual orchestra mission statements look like in some of the worst fonts of all time. And that’s all I needed to go down that rabbit …
In the wake of yesterday’s April Fool’s day prank, several readers wrote in to say how similar it was to the AF prank from 2016. The 2016 article focused on a fictional “Scholarship Indemnity Program” where in exchange for receiving free tuition, students must meet one of the minimum career accomplishment goals, set by the school within a certain number of years following graduation. If students fail to meet those career …