Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

Is It time To Retire Your Print Communication?

Wed, May 5, 2019
by Drew McManus
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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
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Building Empathy By Making Every Voice Important

Tue, May 5, 2019
by Drew McManus
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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
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The Orchestra 990 Library Is COMPLETE!

Mon, May 5, 2019
by Drew McManus
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
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Find Your Ideal New Job With Less Effort Than Before

Fri, May 5, 2019
by Drew McManus
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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
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Time To Update Your Web Policies, Here Are Some Resources To Help With That Task

Thu, May 5, 2019
by Drew McManus
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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
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