Preparing For Outdoor Festivals and Performances
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Ah Spring! The time when young arts organizations thoughts turn to …outdoor festivals. With the upcoming warm weather, it seems the time to offer some general tips about preparing and planning for outdoor festivals. More specifically, with crises that may arise. Even if you have been running a festival for awhile, these bear noting. I worked for a well organized outdoor arts and music festival that had been running for 12 years before I got ...
How Ready Is Your Long And Short Term Crisis Planning?
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In a crisis, arts organizations face challenges that other business entities don’t. After Hurricane Katrina, SouthArts created a program called ArtsReady that serves as a resource for arts organizations providing information on common concerns as well as those specific to arts organizations. The ArtsReady site provides links to a number of good planning resources. Not long ago, someone posted on a LinkedIn forum asking if any arts organization had created an active shooter policy. At ...

Review: Outlook for Mobile
Question: Do you use Microsoft Outlook on your computer at work? If you work for a corporation that has an IT department, the answer undoubtedly has to be ‘yes’. When using Outlook on a Windows machine or on a Mac, I need an avalanche of Advil to get through reading and responding to the contents of in my inbox. Apple’s Mail.app on iOS is perfectly functional, but it is by no means a fantastic tool. Android has ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…