Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
It’s been more than a year since the last reminder which means it is high time to remind everyone to update your passwords, especially ones related to work at your arts org. Hacker activity hasn’t subsided since a big spike at the beginning of the calendar year and one of the most useful steps in shutting down hackers before they get anywhere is using a strong password. Yes, strong passwords are …
The 6/27/2014 edition of The Verge published an article by Adi Robertson that examines the author’s experience using Google Glass to process translations. Long story short, the device did an excellent job at taking what has become a technologically rooted staple of the concert experience to its next logical evolutionary step. At a showing last week, the system worked surprisingly well. Readable but minimally distracting translations floated in the corner of …
It’s time to update your Twitter skills and keep up with the learning curve. For those unaware, Twitter updated their user profile layouts to include a profile background image that looks a lot like Facebook profile headers. However, it functions differently than its Facebook peer in that it is responsive, meaning it will get resized and/or cropped based on a visitor’s browser width and screen resolution. This is important because you …
I wanted to take a moment to pull together a few threads from different sources all discussing, to one degree or another, marketing and patron interaction amidst the digital age. And when you tie them together, they create a fascinating counterproductive cycle that ensnares too many groups: ex post facto planning > trying too hard > not knowing when to stop. Out Of Sight… Let’s acknowledge an ugly truth: there are …
For those of you who have been following the ongoing development of the ChristopherORiley.com website redesign, you know that we crossed the launch threshold early last week. In an enormous act of generosity, O’Riley decided to make his super-secret password protected Backstage Pass page available to any site visitor subscribing to his newsletter or blog; meaning you get full streaming access to all of his recordings through June 17, 2014 just …