Your Guide To Great Community Project Guides
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If you have been inspired by all the great community projects you see different arts groups doing and dream of doing something similar, but don’t know where to start, Minnesota based Springboard for the Arts has you covered with their Creative Exchange site. In particular, the Toolkit section of the site has guides written by the creators of various projects from across the country to help you do what they did. All of the toolkits …
Become A Microsoft Office Master
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Let’s all pause for a moment to consider the great equalizer at your organization: Microsoft Office. Whether you love to hate Outlook for messing up your calendar when you attend a conference in another time zone, or just plain love creating complicated Excel formulas, MS Office is pretty much ubiquitous in daily work, so you might as well get the most out of it. And considering it’s been around for over 25 years, there might …
UPDATE: Get Ready for New Wage Rules
In October, 2015, I wrote an ArtsHacker article about new proposed overtime limits and wage rules. In May, 2016, the Department of Labor released the finalized rules which will go into effect on December 1, 2016. Since these new rules have the potential to affect millions of employees, particularly those who work in arts nonprofits, it’s important to take a look at them. As the regulations stand right now, workers must earn $23,660 per year or more …
No One Cares About Your Website Slider
I’m sorry but it’s true. Most arts organizations have some sort of slider feature (also called a carousel) on their website. You probably do right now. Well, the cold hard truth is that very few people are actually seeing that slider content. How do I know this? DATA. (No, not this Data. I’m talking about real facts that have been collected and analyzed over time.) I think it makes us (meaning arts marketers and arts administrators) …
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…