Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Since Net Neutrality is anything but safe, proactive arts managers will begin developing some skills to optimize your organization’s website so pages load as fast as possible. One of the key elements in creating web pages with snappy response times are optimized images. Just look at how much important Google places on this aspect of web design: Images often account for most of the downloaded bytes on a web page and …
About Drew McManus Hi. I’M DREW MCMANUS, THE ORCHESTRA INSIDER. I work as an arts consultant in Chicago, IL. I’m the author of this blog. There has never been a better time to be in the orchestra business. Really. OVERVIEW I hear that every time you show up to work with an orchestra, people get fired. Those were the first words out of an executive’s mouth after her board chair introduced …
In the enthusiasm to blog about yesterday’s Net Neutrality news I completely forgot to post something for Veterans Day but better late than never; to that end, take a moment to remember that the single largest employer of full-time professional musicians is the United States Armed Forces. So set aside some time today to learn more about the ensembles and their missions. [ilink url=”http://www.usafband.af.mil/” style=”tick”]The United States Air Force Band[/ilink] [ilink …
Granted, regular readers have heard me raise alarms over the impending demise of net neutrality and the negative impact that will have on the entire field but compared to other topics, the degree of engagement is, shall we say, unenthusiastic. That’s okay, it can seem like a dry and overly geeky topic; fortunately, creative types like John Oliver and his writing team at HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver not …
Although it is undeniably easy to get occupied by issues associated with the economic downturn, there are two items of interest looming on the horizon we should be discussing that could have an enormously adverse impact on the entire business: net neutrality and health care reform. These two issues are something that can be addressed via government affairs activity on the local, state, and national levels so it is in our …