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Might Makes Right: A Predator’s Paradise (Update: Met Suspends Levine)

Mon, Dec 12, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 127
Over the weekend, the New York Post published an article by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein that reports on a Lake Forest, IL police report that accuses conductor and Metropolitan Opera (Met) Music Director James Levine of alleged child molestation. A host of additional outlets followed up with their own accounts in the wake of
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The First Step In Preparing For Post Net Neutrality Slowdowns Is Creating Speed And Performance Benchmarks

Fri, Dec 12, 2017
by Drew McManus
ArtsHacker.com
Here it is: the first of several installments on what you can do to push back again impending slowdowns once #netneutrality is gone.  I published this at ArtsHacker.com yesterday and it provides step by step instructions on how to use three of the most popular page speed test tools: WebPageTest.org, GTmetrix, and Pingdom. With loads of screencaps, it provides everything
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#TBT The 2017 End Of Year Giving Campaign May Be The Most Important In Recent Memory

Thu, Nov 11, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 033
Just in case you haven’t put 2 + 2 together yet to figure out that if either version of the GOPs proposed tax plan becomes law, it will likely produce an adverse impact on annual giving (details). As such, your 2017 end of year online giving campaign may be the final opportunity for donors to
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Did You Experience #GivingTuesday Fatigue?

Wed, Nov 11, 2017
by Drew McManus
Giving Tuesday
Thanks to the generosity of the Gates Foundation matching funds for donations made through Facebook, participation in #GivingTuesday is expected to reach all-time highs. From my own perspective, within the first hour of logging into my Facebook account, I had more than 100 notifications inviting me to fundraiser pages. By 12:00 noon CT, I stopped
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It’s Easier To Show You Than Tell You

Tue, Nov 11, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 044
Yesterday’s post about the impending net neutrality slowdowns garnered a good bit of attention but one common question I received from colleagues is how much of a difference all of the optimization work I suggested is really worth. After several exchanges, it seemed clear this is one of those items where showing is better than
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