Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
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 focuses on using the Serial Position Effect across the following four tasks: Determining the order of …
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 that regularly, there’s a cool Google Chrome trick you can use to open any number of …
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 you with delight over having ruined your morning. It’s practically quivering at the thought of triggering …
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, and Facebook; and by free, I mean actual direct downloads, none of the “give us your …
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 those items are covered in an article I wrote for ArtsHacker a few years ago. All …