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Forget Walking A Mile In Their Shoes, Try A Stream Of New Concertgoer Inner Monologue

Tue, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 090
There’s an entertaining and thought-provoking article in the 1/7/2017 edition of The New Yorker by Kirk J. Rudell that provides an exclusive broadcast of his inner monologue as a first-time concertgoer. There is no shortage of amusing entries in his attendee stream of consciousness but the entire exercise reminded me of a Take A Friend
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Buried Treasure Monday

Mon, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 205
If you’ve ever had to modify a large number of image files you know the pain of opening and editing each file one by one. Fortunately, if you’re Adobe Creative Suite user, there’s an easier method to the madness and although you might be tempted to look at Photoshop’s batch processing tools, the app you
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New Year, New Gig?

Fri, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration Jobs
If you haven’t been to Adaptistration Jobs lately, you’re missing out on a flood of new listings; in fact, there are ten new listings alone in the last three days! There’s even a Featured Listing for a newly created position at California Symphony, Director of Patron Loyalty, which just happens to be the group where
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Don’t Ask Me How I’m Doing If You Don’t Really Care

Thu, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 085
I’m going to steal something today from Joe Patti; specifically, his post from 1/3/2017 where he shares some insights from serving on the evaluation panel from ArtsHacker’s Most Creative People In Arts Administration. In his post, Patti dives into the deep end of one submission that ultimately tied for top honor: Aubrey Bergauer’s blog at California
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If You’re An Arts Org Executive, You’ll Want To Read This

Wed, Jan 1, 2017
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 061
Make no mistake, it’s wonderful to see a staffer or manager nominate his/her executive; in fact, the panel ended up selecting two very deserving executives as recipients. Having said that, it was difficult not to feel somewhat dismayed when there wasn’t a single executive who felt compelled to nominate an employee’s creative and successful project.
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