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It’s time to cut back on the HiPPO populatiuon; and no I don’t mean the large, mostly herbivorous mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa, instead, we’re talking about the acronym HiPPO, which stands for Highest Paid Person’s Opinion. We’ve all wasted too much time during meetings and made decisions that didn’t produce the best potential return on investment due to a lack of data and in that void, HiPPOs love to spread their love. So …

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If you’re a MailChimp user (quite a few of arts organizations and artists are) you’ll want to make sure you didn’t miss a tiny but important upgrade they recently made to their RSS campaigns in the form of improved image handing. In short, MailChimp has never done a great job at resizing images to fit inside the email campaign’s template. Quite often, image widths are larger than the maximum template width …

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The only thing more fulfilling than successfully filling a demand is doing it alongside a group of enormously talented colleagues and friends. To that end, yesterday was ArtsHacker’s first anniversary and ever since the inaugural post on December 7, 2015 the site has been an unmitigated hit with arts managers. In addition to that segment, the site has been attracting a healthy percentage of entrepreneurs among commercial based marketing, data analysis, …

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In a field where it can become all too easy to feel the pressures of the day to day grind, we sometimes forget to take a step back and acknowledge the things we’re grateful for. To that end, I asked the contributors at ArtsHackers to share a few of the things they are grateful for as arts administrators during this Thanksgiving season. I hope this lets you learn a little bit more …

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