Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
The field dodged a bullet in 2015 when net neutrality was threatened but it’s on the chopping block once again. To avoid the latest round of danger, you need to do the heroic thing by contacting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to let them know how why expect them to protect net neutrality. The new FCC chair, Ajit Varadaraj Pai, would like to gut those rules and allow ISPs to charge …
One of the regular conversations I have with Venture Platform clients is how to handle the default target for where links open: new tab or same tab. Prior to the mobile device age, a common practice would be to have links pointing to internal website pages open in the same tab while outbound links open in a new tab. If you’re a manager of a certain age, that’s likely what you …
Rules and regulations surrounding internet use are anything but consistent. Take website policies for example. Does your organization have the exact same polices in place now you crafted three years ago? If so, you’re going to want to update those because they are so very out of date. Privacy regulations alone are continuously fluctuating. Case in point, the Republican controlled congress is set to repeal a slew of online privacy protections. …
Did you know that a routine boilerplate included in many grant agreements (especially those from government sources) stipulates the receiving organization agrees that their website complies to accessibility standards? How confident are you that your website meets WCAG 2.0 standards? Right. That’s what I thought. Fortunately, there are some super easy tools you can use that are free of charge to check and I wrote an article for ArtsHacker.com today that …
Show of hands: your IT or web provider is telling about some issue or another and even though you’re nodding away in agreement you have zero clue what s/he is talking about. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every tech issue could be put into terms you can easily wrap your head around? For example, the topic of why installing theme and plugin updates on an open source website publishing platform (WordPress, …