Use A Person’s Natural Tendency for Grouping Content To Your Advantage
Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
The second installment in the series of articles I’m writing about how arts administrators can use the Laws of User Experience to be better at just about everything they do is now published! This article focuses on the Law Of Common Region and how you can help boost a person’s natural tendency to group similar
Want To Bail On Spotify But Don’t Know How To Migrate Playlists?
Mon, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
No, this isn’t a post about the doins a-transpiring with the political fight going on at Spotify. But it is a post with a resource on how to go about migrating away from Spotify without losing your playlists. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of Spotify’s service. It’s too difficult to use and had to
Is Now The Time To Revamp The Audition Process?
Thu, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Holly Mulcahy published an article at Neo Classical about audition requirements. It serves as a follow-up to something she wrote in 2018 on the topic and spoiler alert: not much has changed for the better. “Over the last four years, the social justice movement has had a positive influence on the way orchestras approach programming while some
Sometimes The Best Message On Why The Arts Are Important Doesn’t Need Quantification
Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Even before the pandemic, the orchestra field had its hands full addressing its relevance in contemporary culture. Unfortunately, financial pressures of the pandemic have started to reignite counterproductive guns or butter debates. While that’s nothing more than a logical fallacy trap, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring it. But instead of getting sucked into
Selling The Benefit