Time For Some Updates At Inside The Arts
Wed, Mar 3, 2022
by Drew McManus
Back in November, Inside The Arts crossed the 14 year mark and I intended to roll out some design updates then but as things got pushed back a few months. Fortunately, design updates are patient and I managed to wrap things up and pushed everything live yesterday. While the homepage is where you’ll notice the
Malicious Misinformation In Action And What You Can Do To Stop It
Tue, Mar 3, 2022
by Drew McManus
As a follow-up to last Friday’s post about reviewing your cybersecurity plans, I have a real-world example for item #5 from that list: “Keep a very close eye on your websites and email clients to make sure they are not compromised and being used to spread malware or misinformation.” Since the invasion of Ukraine, there’s
LV Philharmonic Lawsuit Alleges Financial Misconduct
Mon, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
The 2/21/22 edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal published a pair of articles by Katelyn Newberg and John Katsilometes, respectively, that reports on a lawsuit filed by former Las Vegas Philharmonic (LV Phil) executive director, Anne Berquist, against her former employer. According to the articles, Berquist alleges insurance fraud and discriminatory practices. Excerpts of the
The Time To Review Cybersecurity and Disruption Plans Is Now
Thu, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
If you haven’t done so already, it’s time to make sure you’re as prepared as you can for disruptions to digital platforms because of cyberattacks resulting from events unfolding in Ukraine. To a large degree, there’s only so much you can do and while the risk to arts and culture organizations being targeted deliberately is
Happy 18th Anniversary Butts In The Seats!
Wed, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
I am so happy to see Joe Patti back in action at Butts In The Seats after his two-month hiatus and his return coincides with his 18th anniversary. Even with the hiatus, Joe continues to be one of the most prolific and engaging culture bloggers around. If his blog is new to you, here are
At Least There’s No Shortage Of Things To Fix
Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
The folks over at LaPlaca Cohen and Slover Linnet released the latest installment in their Culture Track series and as always, it’s filled with wealth of useful information. The results from this round included surveys and research from the latter half of 2021 and by this point, the group had a much deeper well to
Nothing Like User Feedback To Help Make Things Better
Thu, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Today’s post begins with analytics. I was examining the user flow for organization’s posting job listings at ArtsAdminJobs.com to see if any of the changes rolled out over the last few months had any unexpected negative impact. The good news is the answer was no; at the same time, I did discover one step in
LinkedIn Is Officially More Useful Than Facebook
Tue, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
Allow me to clarify today’s title a bit by saying LinkedIn is more useful when it comes to engaging with colleagues on news and topics about the field and arts management in general. I don’t know when the shift happened exactly but last week, it became clear I’m spending more time scrolling through my LinkedIn
Applying Parkinson’s Law To Create More Efficient Processes
Mon, Feb 2, 2022
by Drew McManus
The latest installment in the series of articles I’m writing about how arts administrators can use the Laws of User Experience to be better at just about everything they do is now published! This article focuses on Parkinson’s Law, which dictates any task will inflate until all the available time is spent. It’s common to apply this
How Do We Prevent The Great Resignation From Becoming An Extinction Event For The Arts?