Drew McManus
Diving Head First Into Union Politics
Thu, Jun 6, 2007
by Drew McManus
Although this blog is designed to focus on issues related to orchestra management, every now and then it takes a road less traveled. Today, we’re taking a sharp left onto the side streets of internal politics within the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the union which represents the majority of professional orchestra musicians… This week
So That’s Who You Are
Fri, Jun 6, 2007
by Drew McManus
During Wednesday’s radio discussion at Soundcheck with John Schaefer I mentioned the results from a recent readership segmentation survey here at Adaptistration and I thought it would be useful to post those statistics…
Phone Home Survey Results
Thu, Jun 6, 2007
by Drew McManus
The results from the three question survey about telephone etiquette policy earlier this week produced some fascinating data…
Appearing On WNYC’s Soundcheck Today
Wed, Jun 6, 2007
by Drew McManus
I’ll be appearing today on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer at approximately 2:00p.m. ET today to talk about whether or not declining print coverage of classical music is necessarily as bad as some of the doomsayers suggest. Furthermore, is it possible to make the case that blogs are actually becoming more important than print media
Phone Home – An Adaptistration Survey
Tue, Jun 6, 2007
by Drew McManus
Some recent work for a client led me to think about how much time orchestras spend on creating and maintaining a telephone etiquette policy. Furthermore, I wonder how many managers out there have ever taken the time to call their organization just to see how the voice mail system and employee telephone etiquette measures up…
