Productivity

Easy Meeting Scheduling With Doodle

Published Mon, Sep 17, 18 at 3:45 pm

If I can put on my grumpy Gen-X arts admin hat for a moment, I have to say that the older I get, the less I enjoy trying new apps. Instead, finding something that works and sticking with it holds a lot of value. Having said that, when I do run across something new that makes me want to switch, it’s really exciting. Case in point, I started using Doodle to schedule meetings across multiple participants and it has been a terrific tool. Doodle offers free and paid accounts and for most … Read more

Red Pill/Blue Pill: Effective Data Driven Decision Making

Published Tue, Jun 5, 18 at 2:00 am | Updated Tue, Jun 5, 18 at 1:43 pm

On Saturday, June 2, 2018, me and my fellow ArtsHacker, Ceci Dadisman, enjoyed an opportunity to present a session titled Red Pill/Blue Pill: Effective Data Driven Decision Making to the 37th Annual Association of Arts Administration Educators Conference. We had a great deal of fun and the session was well received. Since we’re all about the share here at ArtsHacker, we wanted to make the Google Slides available to all. As has been the case for the past few new conference sessions we’ve put together, this slide deck contains copious and detailed … Read more

Breaking Up With Adobe

Breaking Up With Adobe

Published Tue, Feb 20, 18 at 3:55 pm | Updated Thu, Feb 22, 18 at 1:37 am

It’s not you, Adobe. It’s me. You see, I am a long time Adobe software user. I started using the institutional licenses in school at the University of Missouri, and Adobe Creative Suite 3 was one of the first pieces of “pro” software I ever purchased. After CS6, when Adobe moved to the Creative Cloud subscription plans, I was torn. On one hand, it was going to be expensive. On the other hand, I used this software an awful lot, and I always got excited about new features when they became available. … Read more

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