How Accessible Is Your Website?
Fri, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
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
Are You Aware Of The Women Composer Database Project?
Thu, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
On 3/16/2012, composer and arts administrator Rob Deemer wrote an article for NewMusicBox that included a list of women composers. His motivation was rooted in discussions from that time about women composers and since then, that simple list has grown into a full-fledged database project. I contacted Deemer to learn more about how the project
To Save The NEA And NEH, Perhaps Stakeholders Should Crowdsource ‘Fox & Friends’ Sponsored Content
Wed, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
With all the genuine concern in the wake of the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), perhaps political action isn’t the best option. Instead, the NEA and NEH could be saved if we crowdsource a bribe sponsored content on the Fox News
If Your Group Is Enrolled In PayPal’s Charitable Giving Fund, You Need To Know About This Class Action Lawsuit
Tue, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
The 3/1/2017 edition of Nonprofit Quarterly published an article by Michael Wyland that examines a class action lawsuit “alleging that PayPal’s Charitable Giving Fund misrepresented its operations and its relationships with most U.S. nonprofit organizations and took donors’ gifts intended for specific charities and directed them without consent to charities of PayPal’s choice.” According to
If Only Every Complex Topic Could Be Explained This Way
Mon, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
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
Confused About Instagram’s Stories and Live Features? I Was Too Until I Read This
Fri, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
I’m not a big Instagram user but it pays to stay on top of leading social media platforms which is why I tend to find tutorials written from the perspective of those inside the field I work more useful than those from generic sources. To that end, classical music entrepreneur extraordinaire Jason Heath published a
In The Line Of Fire
Thu, Mar 3, 2017
by Wilson Ochoa
Orchestral librarians often show up to work with a physical list of things that they expect to get completed that day. There is always something to be done to meet a looming deadline, but when you feel you’re starting to fall behind, you set aside a day to do nothing but just knock out the
Off To Chattanooga
Wed, Mar 3, 2017
by Drew McManus
I’m en route to Chattanooga today to attend a concert on Thursday, 3/2/2017 of my wife, violinist Holly Mulcahy, performing Jim Stephenson’s Tributes violin concerto with the Chattanooga Symphony. It’s a fabulous work that was premiered in 2012 by Jennifer Frautschi with the Minnesota Orchestra. This will be the concerto’s second performance and Holly gave an
Happy Anniversary Butts In The Seats!
Tue, Feb 2, 2017
by Drew McManus
Congratulations to Joe Patti’s Butts In The Seats; Musings on Practical Solutions For Arts Management which is celebrating its 13th anniversary! I completely missed posting something on the actual anniversary date last week but I would be remiss not to mention it now as it remains as one of the most meaningful culture blogs available.
The Concert Experience Is Once Again A Hot Topic (and that’s a good thing)
Mon, Feb 2, 2017
by Drew McManus
The 2/21/2017 edition of the Wall Street Journal published an article by Terry Teachout (subscriber only) that examines some recent work by the California Symphony into attracting millennials. Specifically, the article touches on the orchestra’s efforts to identify reasons why new ticket buyers are discouraged from returning and, spoiler alert, they are mostly non-artistic. If
