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Today’s Your Last Chance To Sign Up For The ARTS MOVE POLICY (AMP): Arts + Technology Webinar

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 by Drew McManus

Today is the final day to sign up for the Arts Alliance Illinois’ ARTS MOVE POLICY (AMP): Arts + Technology webinar on Thursday April 18, 2019 from 12:30-2:00pm CT. I’ll be taking part in the webinar to present material about what arts orgs should be doing to prepare for the post net-neutrality era. Thanks to the generosity of The Joyce Foundation and the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation, registration is free …

Off To Johnstown, PA For A Workshop On User Experience

Monday, April 15th, 2019 by Drew McManus

I’m in Johnstown, PA today to lead a workshop on Website User Experience with a terrific group of participants taking part in a two-year capacity building initiative from Americans for the Arts. To be more precise, it’s the Arts Marketing and Audience Engagement in the 21st Century: Building the Capacity of Pennsylvania’s Cultural Sector. Funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the program is designed to support, strengthen and advance …

Confused By All The Recent Changes In Mailchimp?

Friday, April 12th, 2019 by Drew McManus

Let’s end the week on a skills-oriented post. If you’re a Mailchimp user, you’ve probably noticed the host of changes and enhancements they’ve rolled out of the last few months. One of the biggest is a complete overhaul of their list and segmentation functionality and if you didn’t know it was coming, it was probably a rude awakening. Fortunately, ArtsHacker has you covered with a recent post from Ceci Dadisman. She’ll …

Have You Subscribed To ArtsMail Yet?

Thursday, April 11th, 2019 by Drew McManus

Ever since Thomas Cott retired his newsletter, arts admins have been looking for a good replacement. To that end, #ArtsMarketingMaven, Ceci Dadisman, recently launched ArtsMail which she describes as “a weekly email digest chock-full of useful information for arts administrators. The content is curated by arts marketer (and admitted arts administration nerd) Ceci Dadisman. Each week, you can expect everything from news about what is going on in our industry to …

Disrupting Musician Employment Agreements

Wednesday, April 10th, 2019Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 by Drew McManus

In her 2015 book, Reinventing Dell: The Innovation Imperative, Heather Simmons, former Dell General Manager and Executive Director of Marketing from 1992-2005 wrote “Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.” I couldn’t agree more, but even though disruption inside the classical music field is a tall order, it shouldn’t preclude us from looking for opportunities. As someone who has worked for more than two decades …