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Off To SUNY Fredonia

Wed, Sep 9, 2018
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 152a
I’m off to Fredonia, NY where I’ll be speaking to the students and members of the Ethos New Music Society about building a career without going broke and how to approach related challenges without letting them drain inspiration. Originally scheduled for last year, I had to cancel due to the flu and am very happy
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A Good Way To Leverage A Microsite

Tue, Sep 9, 2018
by Drew McManus
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The LA Philharmonic recently launched a dedicated microsite for their Centennial Campaign (an endowment capitalization campaign) and it’s a good example for how to go about designing a purpose built microsite. Each page is comparatively short and contains big, obvious conversion targets (making an online donation). It’s a very nice mobile first design that clearly
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Thanks To Your Terrific Response, The Star Trek Podcast Is Now Downloadable

Mon, Sep 9, 2018
by Drew McManus
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Thanks to everyone who took a moment to reach out with feedback about last Friday’s Music of Star Trek Podcast. Hands down, the most requested feature was to make the pilot episode downloadable and as of now, that’s exactly what you can do. Just look for the little download icon on the SoundCloud file. If
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The Music Of Star Trek Podcast

Fri, Sep 9, 2018
by Drew McManus
Sometimes you just want to have some fun and geek out with your friends and that’s precisely the motivation for this podcast about the music of Star Trek. It features four of my friends, each from different segments of the classical music field, getting together and geeking out about the music of Star Trek. Ceci
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Causation Or Correlation?

Thu, Sep 9, 2018
by Drew McManus
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Minnesota Orchestra violist and all-around thoughtful professional, Sam Bergman, posted an intriguing thread on Twitter where he wondered aloud about the relationship between orchestras announcing positive/negative financial news and collective bargaining agreement cycles. And just in case you miss it in the tweets, Sam makes it clear he is not referring to his own orchestra.
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