It’s never been easier to create some really high quality, stunning video commercials thanks to recent advances in digital video editing and visual effects rendering. So even if you don’t have a budget for broadcast commercials (who does?), you can start to take advantage of creating video commercials geared toward online distribution.
Patience Cures Many An Old Complaint
Today’s title is an Irish proverb and one wonders if that phrase would have ever been coined if they were running professional orchestras at the time. Nonetheless, complaints seem to be a staple of the arts administration environment. Blame it on a host of reasons; inadequate resources, artistic temperaments, the economy, lack of professionalism, and so forth, but the reality is complaints aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean …
What A Treat To Be Featured At WPCandy
It’s always nice to get recognized for being interesting and unique and to that end, it’s an enormous honor to get singled out for those very reasons by WPCandy; one of the go-to WordPress communities, in their Behind the Site series. Granted, unless you regularly dip your toes into the world of binary code in all of its open source goodness, you’re probably wondering what the heck all of this means.
It's Surprising To See The Thieves Go To That Much Trouble
The 8/25/2011 FTM Arts Law blog post (HT Musical America) reports on a recent notice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alerting the public about a recent identity theft scam directed toward performing arts groups where the crooks attempted to gather information through bogus forms. All of the advice in the blog post is spot on so take it to heart but what I’m curious about is why the crooks went to that much trouble to begin with.
Ready Or Not, The 2011 Website Reviews Are Coming
It’s that time of year again and we’re tooling up the 2011 Orchestra Website Reviews. Everything is being set into motion a little later than normal this year in order to accommodate my consulting schedule so that means you have a little bit of additional time to make sure your site is up to date and ready for evaluation.