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Applying Onboarding Techniques To Boost Web Engagement

Thu, Jul 7, 2017
by Drew McManus
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Although we could have a long chat about employee oriented onboarding procedures, today’s post touches on how you can leverage some of those concepts to improve your web engagement. If this bit of jargon is new to you, onboarding is the procedures used to effectively integrate someone like new employee into an organization and/or familiarize
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Are We Using “The Imprimatur Of A Brand Name As A Shortcut For Hiring Decisions?”

Wed, Jul 7, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 150
There’s a fantastic post by Joe Patti in the 7/24/17 edition of Butts In The Seats that examines a decision by Harvard University to suspend graduate admissions for their theatre program after multiple years of unacceptable debt-to-earning potential for graduates. Patti’s article is a riff on a Chicago Tribune article by chief theater critic and
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Yep, Compensation Reports Are Coming Next Week (Really)

Tue, Jul 7, 2017
by Drew McManus
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I can say with a great deal of confidence that the 2017 orchestra compensation reports are (finally) coming out…wait…for…it…Monday 7/31 through Friday 8/4. Thanks to everyone for your patience, even the one reader who wrote in yesterday to ask with the subject line “where the [redacted] are the compensation reports!?!” (you know who you are).
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AFM-EPF News Continues To Look Grim

Mon, Jul 7, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 123
At the beginning of July, 2017 the American Federation of Musicians & Employers’ Pension Fund (AFM-EPF) distributed a notice informing members the Plan continues to be in critical status and “it remains likely that the Plan will become critical and declining at some point in the future, perhaps as early as…April 1, 2018.” For the
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What Is San Antonio Symphony’s “Fair And Reasonable” Future?

Fri, Jul 7, 2017
by Drew McManus
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If you find news coming out of the San Antonio Symphony (SAS) confusing, you’re not alone. The 501(c)3 which operates the SAS, Symphony Society of San Antonio (SSSA), has decided to cease operations and is turning over its mission driven activity to a brand-new nonprofit, Symphonic Music for San Antonio (SMSA). SSSA isn’t filing bankruptcy
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