How To Organize Your Workweek
It’s the first week back from holidays and if you’re like me and many other workers, you spent much of the week trying to remember how to type and wondering why there were no more Christmas cookies in the office. If you’re a fan of New Years Resolutions, perhaps one is to be more productive at work. A December, 2015 article published on New York Magazine’s Science of Us column references an email from Googler …
Getting Exactly What You Wish For
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Publishing a Wish List of needed items is a longstanding practice among non-profits. Historically, it has been difficult to keep the list brief but also provide a useful description of the item to people who aren’t familiar with the specialized needs of an arts organization. Fortunately, a number of online retailers have taken a cue from bridal registries and provided a way for arts organizations to share their wishlists online, get exactly what they want …
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me A (Font) Match
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For many performing arts orgs, January means you’re knee deep into next season’s design stage and for those of you who do your own design work, finding complementary font combos can become an overwhelming task. Fortunately, we have some terrific resources you can use to keep you on track. A Septet of Typography Combo Tools The design resource center, Creative Market, published an article that lists five different sites dedicated to helping you put together striking …
Six Reasons To Add Millennials To Your Board
What’s your board make-up? If you’re like my organization, our board is composed of over 40 year-olds (the average age is probably around 65), higher level business executives, and white. It mirrors the population that we attract and, despite the lack of diversity, is a really great, active board. We do have minorities on the board, however we have no member under 40 on the board. In a November, 2014 post, Colleen Dilen highlighted Six Urgent Reasons …
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