Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Virtual show of hands: how many of you still use print newsletters? My hunch is more than a few of raised your hands. Now, for those of you who did, when was the last time you quantified their impact and engagement? Print newsletters and/or magazines are one of those odd evolutionary throwbacks in the world of arts communication. In their heyday, they were the apex predator of engagement and status. But …
Recently, violinist Holly Mulcahy published an article chronicling her latest Arts Capacity program Walker State Faith and Character Based Prison. This was her ninth event at that facility, and it implemented a new approach to building empathy by making every voice important in a shared creative process. In a nutshell, she and her colleagues introduced a real-time composition element to the program. …we began with several pieces that ranged from 2 …
After a full year of work, the downloadable Orchestra 990 library at the Adaptistration Store is now complete. That means more than 1,100 IRS 990s across 17 seasons, going back all the way to the 1999/2000 season! There’s nothing else like it available and now that there are so many seasons available, I’ve updated the user interface so it’s easier to purchase any combination of seasons right from a single page. …
Yesterday, an arts admin reached out asking why ArtsAdminJobs.com doesn’t offer an email subscription. The short answer is because it offers job seekers a special job alert tool that sends email messages when new listings are published that match their defined job criteria. So just to make sure it’s not too tough to find, I wanted to point it out in today’s post. You can create any number of custom alerts …
There was a time where you could get away with just a terms of service and privacy policy but over the past two years, the environment of online web privacy policies has become far more complex. In addition to cookie policies you need to be concerned with data breach policies and have notification templates on hand, ready to go. As such, I published an updated version of an article I wrote …