Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Lifehacker.com has a long running feature titled “How I Work” and it routinely produces some fascinating content focusing mostly on creatives and tech professionals. That’s great, but wouldn’t it be nice to have something along the same lines but about arts managers? Well today’s your lucky day! Over at ArtsHacker.com, we kicked off the first of a new monthly feature: How I Get Things Done, an ongoing series that examines how arts managers stay …
Do you know if your Google Analytics data is corrupted by ghost referral spam? Wait, I didn’t know Google Analytics data could get spammed. What’s ghost referral spam or for that matter, regular referral spam? Unlike most types of spam you’re probably familiar with already, referral spam doesn’t actually interact with your website directly (which is good) so there’s no real security risk (super good), but it will mess with your metrics data in a …
Does your organization still design print material first then use that as the basis for your online design? If so, you’re not only behind the marketing curve, you’re losing ground at record speed. Case in point, take a good hard look at Google’s Material Design language, their formal effort to begin standardizing user experience with specs that continuously evolve. Without getting into too much of the geeky details, Material Design shatters …
It’s time to clear out a few pet peeve demons by channeling the energy into constructive efforts. To that end, I published an article At ArtsHacker today that covers three common design and content mistakes and how to fix them. Care to guess what the first one is all about? As promised via the initial tease from 12/30/16, here’s the latest clue to the new Inside The Arts author coming in …
For many performing arts orgs, January means you’re knee deep into next season’s design stage and for those of you who do your own design work, finding complementary font combos can become an overwhelming task. Fortunately, I published a post at ArtsHacker today that offers up a wealth of resources for keeping you from going too far down that rabbit hole.