Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Originally, today’s post was going to point over to the Kickstarter page for the Music of Star Trek Kickstarter project, but I once again got caught off guard by forgetting about the few days of delay between submitting a project and having it go live. Good news is it’s ready to go once Kickstarter is finished processing everything so keep an eye out for the notice once we reach that point. …
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I published an article at ArtsHacker about how website content managers can begin improving web accessibility by way of user-friendly tools to check color contrast. The response from colleagues and readers was terrific and per those suggestions, I decided to expand this into an ongoing series focusing on all the content management related tasks you can do to improve web accessibility. The good news is there are …
Remember last year’s #GivingTuesday when the big Gates Foundation matching fund grant through Facebook inadvertently produced a veritable tsunami of donation requests? By the end of the day, most arts administrators I know were burned out, so you can only imagine how patrons must have felt. It will be interesting to see what unfolds today and to that end, I’m very curious to learn if 2017’s notification overload impacted how you …
I’m taking the rest of the week off from blogging and I hope everyone will be able to set aside time to enjoy a safe and relaxing Thanksgiving with family and friends. With any luck, there will be time over the break to finish up the Music of Star Trek podcast Kickstarter video and we can get that campaign officially underway! In the meantime…
Who am I kidding? Most of my non-work hours yesterday were focused on election results. As such, I’m taking the day off. Since this is being written well in advance of polls closing, I have zero clue how things will turn out. But now that it’s later* and you know the results (a few expected close-calls notwithstanding), I’m curious to know whether you think state and federal governments are more, or …