Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
I’m all for finding ways to infuse wine into the live concert experience. But while my own interest tends to start and stop at the actual consumption, others are giving the subject it the attention it deserves. Case in point, violinist Holly Mulcahy recently published an article at Neo Classical that casts an eye toward lessons our field can learn from the way the wine industry began to pivot 20 years …
I’m very pleased to say Arts Admin Jobs’ Candidate Database is officially open for business! To help celebrate, I’m running a 25% off launch special, which brings the monthly cost down to only $15/mo. Act fast, it’s only good through May 31, 2021. But wait, there’s more… I have something special for job seekers as well: a new job filter to show openings looking for remote, hybrid, or in-office work locations.
Last week, the U.S. Small Business Administration announced it is increasing the maximum amount small businesses and nonprofit organizations can borrow through it’s COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and EIDL Advance program. Starting the week of April 6, 2021, the SBA is raising the loan limit for the COVID-19 EIDL program from 6-months of economic injury with a maximum loan amount of $150,000 to up to 24-months of economic injury …
Now that vaccines are rolling out in earnest, more and more arts orgs are starting to talk about bringing their workforce back to the office. While we took a closer look at this topic last week, I’m curious to know what orchestra managers think about returning to work. Granted, there will always be positions that have to work on location but I’m still curious to know what readers think about returning. …
Yesterday’s three-hour workshop for the 2021 Museums and the Web virtual conference was a big hit. My thanks to #MW21 for the invitation to participate! It was well attended, and participants were very engaged. This iteration of the session included some new material, such as the component from my co-host, Ceci Dadisman’s, portion on tracking conversions using goals inside Analytics. It’s an outgrowth of her article on the same subject she wrote …