The Latest Edition Of Culture Track Is Out

by

Earlier this week, LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linnet released the latest installment in their Culture Track series: Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation. The report’s goal of “inform[ing] the national dialogue about progress, relevance, and genuine equity in the cultural sector” hopes to provide further breakdowns of the relationships among various demographic and geographic factors in late July 2021. Focusing on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), the …

Read more

Trial And Error Is Not A Good Approach To Website Navigation UX

by
Visit ArtsHacker.com

When it comes to designing your website navigation menu, you’ll eventually need to make one critical choice in the form of deciding whether to make the top-level navigation menu items clickable or to trigger a hover-and-expand function to show sub-menu items. Fortunately, there’s one quick and easy sure-fire rule you can use to get moving in the right direction. To that end, I published an article at ArtsHacker that provides some …

Read more

Something Else To Consider In The Larger Oberlin PR Crisis

by

Diversity driven PR crises seem to be all the rage these days. Just when you thought things were settling down following the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields’ “white art audience” fiasco, something new pops up from Oberlin Conservatory. In case you missed it, here are the highlights: Oberlin Conservatory designed a flier for “A Celebration of Black Artistry,” a virtual performance ending Black History Month that included headshots for five of …

Read more

Here’s An Idea To Help Build On All Of Your Virtual Programming Initiatives

by

Thomas Wolf published an article on 2/24/2021 at his blog that’s interesting in that it reaches all the way back to the over-funded, now defunct Concert Companion project. Nutshell: Wolf presupposes one of the reasons why Concert Companion failed was because it was focused primarily on use during the live concert. Ironically enough, in an attempt to enhance the experience, it placed too much demand on the user for attention that …

Read more

Paycheck Protection Program Introduces Exclusive Period For Smaller Businesses

by

President Biden announced that through Tuesday March 9, 2021 the Small Business Administration (SBA) will exclusively accept applications for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from businesses and nonprofits with fewer than 20 employees. During the 14-day exclusive period, financial institutions are still allowed take and review applications from all size small businesses, but they will not submit new applications to the SBA for businesses with 20 or more employees until Wednesday …

Read more