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Top 10 Ways To Annoy Your Orchestra Website Visitors

Tue, Jun 6, 2009
by Drew McManus
What started out as pet peeves eventually turned into the annual orchestra website reviews, a resource that has contributed to improved website design throughout the entire orchestra business. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean webpage annoyances have gone away, they’ve just become more refined. As such, I’ve compiled a Top 10 list of the recent offenses… So
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How To Make Your Own Article Archive

Fri, Jan 1, 2009
by Drew McManus
We’ve all likely encountered it before, you remember reading an article somewhere several weeks ago but when you go looking for it, it seems to have disappeared. Wouldn’t it be easy if all of your culture related articles were archived in one, convenient location? Sure, but that’s not going to happen any time soon. That
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Lights, Camera, Aktion!

Wed, Jan 1, 2009
by Drew McManus
Preceded by much fanfare, the Berlin Philharmonic broadcast their inaugural concert via their “Digital Concert Hall” project yesterday. I have to admit, I didn’t shell out the nearly US$15.00 to experience the concert but luckily enough, regular reader Michael Brewer did and was kind enough to pass along his impressions of the event…
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It Appears Streaming Is Beneficial

Thu, Sep 9, 2008
by Drew McManus
Yesterday’s poll on whether or not an on-demand, subscription based model for streaming online classical music would provide any benefits for classical music aficionados produced some intriguing results. The poll was prompted by a statement from online music retailer Passionato.com’s Director of Marketing & Business Development, Europe where he claimed that “a subscription model may
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I STILL Don’t Want To Buy Your Damn Music!

Wed, Sep 9, 2008
by Drew McManus
On 9/12/2008 the UK outlet for tech guru cnet.com published a review by Nate Lanxon of the new online digital music retailer, Passionato.com. The article lavishes praise on what amounts to a an online retail site that, compared to iTunes, simply provides more information about classical music recordings and an additional download format beyond standard MP3
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