2018 – Page 4 – Adaptistration

Like You Need Another Reminder About Cybersecurity (But Really, You Do)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 by Drew McManus

In the wake of the Marriott hotel security breach that exposed not only exposed personal information for their customers, but also passport numbers and credit card payment information, it’s worth mentioning that your organization should have several measures in place to handle threats and be prepared to react accordingly in the event of a breach. In a timely announcement, the Nonprofit Technology Network, in conjunction with Microsoft, polled more than 250 nonprofit …

The Music Of Star Trek Podcast Kickstarter Is Live!

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 by Drew McManus

It is official: the Music of Star Trek podcast 30-day Kickstarter campaign is up and running and we need your help to make everything possible. I am all kinds of excited to finally be able to reveal the details we’ve been sitting on for the past month, not the least of which are the rewards. The pilot episode turned out to be a real hit, but it was the response to that show …

Best Laid Plans

Monday, December 3rd, 2018 by Drew McManus

Originally, today’s post was going to point over to the Kickstarter page for the Music of Star Trek Kickstarter project, but I once again got caught off guard by forgetting about the few days of delay between submitting a project and having it go live. Good news is it’s ready to go once Kickstarter is finished processing everything so keep an eye out for the notice once we reach that point. …

What’s All This About A Housing Allowance?

Friday, November 30th, 2018 by Drew McManus

In response to Wednesday’s article about the new housing shared equity program in the San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), a number of readers reached out asking about the similar program at the LA Philharmonic I referenced. It’s a straightforward item in the LA Phil’s CBA, Article 13.K: Housing Allowance: On regularly scheduled paydays that follow the close of each payroll period during the Term of this Agreement …

You Don’t Have To Be A Code Jockey To Begin Making Your Site Accessible

Sunday, April 21st, 2019Thursday, November 29th, 2018 by Drew McManus

Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I published an article at ArtsHacker about how website content managers can begin improving web accessibility by way of user-friendly tools to check color contrast. The response from colleagues and readers was terrific and per those suggestions, I decided to expand this into an ongoing series focusing on all the content management related tasks you can do to improve web accessibility. The good news is there are …