Dear Funders: Your Logo Requirements Are Wasting Your Own Money
Thu, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
Requiring grant recipients to display the logo from the company/foundation/agency providing a grant is a common practice. It highlights the funder’s support and that public attention can help inspire additional support. The whole thing works great…until it doesn’t. By nature, logos come in one of three basic aspect ratios (the proportion between width and height):
After A Year Of Talking About The Topic, Orchestras Are Testing Influencer Marketing
Wed, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
It’s always entertaining when big budget groups start doing something people in the field have been talking about for years but because it’s a big budget group, there’s some associated press that makes it seem like the idea is novel. Case in point, the 9/14/2019 edition of the Wall Street Journal published an article by
You Don’t See This Every Day
Tue, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
Here’s something you don’t see every day: the CEO at one of the largest budget orchestras stepping down out of the blue with nothing more than a 184-word press release announcing the news. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday at the LA Phil where the organization announced Simon Woods was no longer the CEO. The
Time For Some Updates
Mon, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
After three delays over the summer, I finally found the time to update my consulting and professional overview sites. The latter only required some minor copy tweaks, but the former was a different story as it had not seen any major updates in about three years. In addition to a complete redesign and new logo,
It’s Trench Warfare In Baltimore
Fri, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
The latest round of negotiations between the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and their musicians have yet to produce a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Moreover, both sides are firmly entrenched into what have become do-or-die outcomes. The only new development is the employer offered a play and talk agreement under the terms of the now
