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Resource Wednesday: Free Streaming Webinar with Companion Slide Deck

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 by Drew McManus

Last week’s free Google Analytics webinar was recorded and is now available to stream, free of charge. If you’re more of a audio/visual learner then this will be right up your alley. At the onset of the video, one of the participants kept unmuting their mic so you’ll catch a bit of working from home childcare chatter but it fades away after a few minutes. If you have haven’t completed the …

Don’t Overlook This Crucial Remote Work Related Metrics Task

Monday, March 30th, 2020Monday, March 30th, 2020 by Drew McManus

If you manage your organization’s Google Analytics account, there’s a critical task you need to complete in order to filter out all of the incoming web traffic from remote working locations. Good news is you can leave all of these new filters in place once everyone returns to the office. You can find step by step instructions with annotated screenshots at an article I published at ArtsHacker. Don’t Forget To Filter …

Forewarned Is Forearmed: The Latest Social Media Scam

Monday, March 2nd, 2020Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 by Drew McManus

Recently, Joe Patti published an article at ArtsHacker.com that walks you through the way malicious social media bots are beginning to target performing arts organization’s social media feeds. The post provides insight on how to identify bots and why organizations shouldn’t ignore the issue. A new scam seems to have risen in the comments sections of performing arts venue social media pages. It appears that groups are using bots to populate …

An Epic #ShareFail

Thursday, January 30th, 2020Friday, January 31st, 2020 by Drew McManus

Just in case you needed another reminder to use Facebook’s Object Debugger for verifying how your images look when shared: In all fairness, the group in question swapped out image with all deliberate speed but it’s still a fabulous #ShareFail. One for the record books.

#TBT Stingy Event Details

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 by Drew McManus

Back in 2013 we examined the trend of orchestras to include scant information about an event on the corresponding single event pages at their website. Since then, not much has changed. Spend a little bit of time going through orchestra websites and odds are, you’ll find very little information about the works listeners can expect to hear. Budget size doesn’t seem to have impact. Even some mega-budget groups routinely provide no …

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