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The First Step In NOT Reinventing The Wheel
Mon, Jan 1, 2022
by Drew McManus
I completed the first in a series of articles I’m writing about how arts administrators can use the Laws of User Experience to be better at just about everything they do. The articles show you how each of the 21 practices can be applied to far more than just user experience tasks. The inaugural post
You Have How Many Browser Tabs Open?!?!?
Mon, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
While the number of tabs you can have open simultaneously before your computer begins to slow down depends on your hardware specs, there’s nothing inherently bad about keeping multiple tabs open. In fact, there are plenty of times where you need to open multiple tabs at the same time and if you need to do
Breaks. Why Did It Have To Be Breaks?
Fri, Oct 10, 2021
by Drew McManus
That list of 1,347 annual donors is staring at you on the screen. Each donor name is separated by a paragraph break and your department director just casually asked you to convert this to line breaks because it needs to take up less space in the program book. You’re not crazy, that list is mocking
Looking For Some Free, High Quality Social Media Templates?
Thu, Aug 8, 2021
by Drew McManus
Every so often I post an update to a series of articles that feature some free Photoshop templates I use for creating header images for Twitter and Facebook but this time around I found a set of really nice templates from Kambadastudio. They put together a series of free downloads for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn,
#TBT Speaking Of Digital Policies
Thu, Jul 7, 2021
by Drew McManus
Yesterday’s post on ransomware attacks is a good reminder that you should check your website policies to make sure those digital ducks are in a row. Another consideration is if your group has embraced online streaming as a revenue stream, you almost certainly need to update existing policies to cover digital products. Fortunately, all of
