Things Are Going To Get Worse For The Met Before They Get Better

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Initial fallout over The Metropolitan Opera’s (The Met) suspended music director James Levine’s alleged sexual misconduct is positively radioactive. There is no shortage of discussion on the topic, you’ll find thousands of comments across social media threads and online classical music outlets. Passions run deep and a sizable portion of that outrage is directed toward The Met’s executive leadership. At the time this article was written, The Met’s official Facebook page …

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Might Makes Right: A Predator’s Paradise (Update: Met Suspends Levine)

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Over the weekend, the New York Post published an article by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein that reports on a Lake Forest, IL police report that accuses conductor and Metropolitan Opera (Met) Music Director James Levine of alleged child molestation. A host of additional outlets followed up with their own accounts in the wake of the NY Post’s bombshell article. Update: The Met has formally suspended Levine and released additional details …

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The First Step In Preparing For Post Net Neutrality Slowdowns Is Creating Speed And Performance Benchmarks

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ArtsHacker.com

Here it is: the first of several installments on what you can do to push back again impending slowdowns once #netneutrality is gone.  I published this at ArtsHacker.com yesterday and it provides step by step instructions on how to use three of the most popular page speed test tools: WebPageTest.org, GTmetrix, and Pingdom. With loads of screencaps, it provides everything you need to get started and have confidence in reading results and turning them into action. …

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#TBT The 2017 End Of Year Giving Campaign May Be The Most Important In Recent Memory

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Just in case you haven’t put 2 + 2 together yet to figure out that if either version of the GOPs proposed tax plan becomes law, it will likely produce an adverse impact on annual giving (details). As such, your 2017 end of year online giving campaign may be the final opportunity for donors to take advantage of charitable deductions. Today’s #TBT post provides two articles from 2016 that provide a …

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Did You Experience #GivingTuesday Fatigue?

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Giving Tuesday

Thanks to the generosity of the Gates Foundation matching funds for donations made through Facebook, participation in #GivingTuesday is expected to reach all-time highs. From my own perspective, within the first hour of logging into my Facebook account, I had more than 100 notifications inviting me to fundraiser pages. By 12:00 noon CT, I stopped keeping track and simply turned off notifications entirely. Email campaigns messages started a hair slower but …

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