Map Quest: Using Listening Maps In Program Books
Let’s talk about program books. I love looking through them at other organizations’ performances or exhibits, but they are a pain to pull together. There is an ungodly amount of information that must be gathered from every department, organized and formatted, that somehow needs to all fit into an eight page, black and white program section that needed to be to the printer yesterday. One section in the books that many symphony and opera companies include ...
Would You Spend $147 On That Meeting?
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Recently, you learned about meeting scheduler tools from Ceci Dadisman but do you ever wonder how much it costs in labor to hold that meeting? Thanks to a handy web app from Harvard Business Review, you can find out in less than a minute. The web app is fully responsive so it works in all browsers across all major devices; meaning no need to download platform specific apps (hooray!). It’s designed as a mobile first ...
Being Diverse and Inclusive The Other 11 Months Of The Year
The new season is upon and I’m sure many community engagement managers out there spent the summer making plans for a variety of initiatives. Probably high on that list were “diversity initiatives”. If you google “diversity”, the definition is “variety; a range of things.” Nowhere in there does it say “putting people of different skin tones into theater/concert hall/museum seats,” but in so many organizations, both in the arts world and non-arts world, that is ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…