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What’s Your Group Doing For Music In Our Schools Month?

Fri, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
MIOSM2016
March is National Association for Music Education’s Music In Our Schools Month, an annual celebration which, according to NAFME, “engages music educators, students, and communities from around the country in promoting the benefits of high quality music education programs in schools.” The National Education Association provides some useful teacher resources in the form of lesson
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Reader Survey Results: Millennials Continue To Dominate

Thu, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
THE MILLENNIAL MIND
The 2015 Reader Segmentation Survey results are in and just like the prior year, Millennial readers continue to comprise the largest readership segment. Having said that, they did lose a sliver of ground to Gen X and Baby Boomer readers. We’ll examine the full results soon but today’s post is going to dive into results
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When It Comes To Event Liability Insurance, Forewarned Is Forearmed

Wed, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 014
One of the most common questions I get from cultural entrepreneurs looking to start up a chamber group or related artistic effort is why they need event liability insurance (assuming they know about event liability insurance to begin with). “Doesn’t the venue cover that?” They can, but most require renters to provide proof of insurance,
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PSA Tuesday: Don’t Forget To Check Your Copyright Date

Tue, Mar 3, 2016
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration Guy Copyright
It must have been a leap year thing but regardless the reason, I ran across more than a dozen arts org websites yesterday all with copyright notice dates that were 2015 or older. It took me off guard at first as this function is usually addressed by automatically changing the year based on the host
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All Sorts Of #TestFail Going On For The “How Much Do You Know About Musicians” Quiz

Mon, Feb 2, 2016
by Drew McManus
Adaptistration People 011
Last week, I published a fun little quiz to see how much readers really knew about musician wages, benefits, and working conditions. On the positive side of things, participation was fantastic thanks to nearly 500 readers completing all twelve questions. On the other side of that coin were the results: readers either aced it or
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