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You've almost certainly heard of AI by now and the myriad tools available (free and paid) that can help do everything from writing emails to chatting with website visitors. You may have even…
Leadership transitions are important for arts and culture organizations. We have featured a number of articles on the topic, covering both planning philosophy and actual practical examples. …
In mid-April 2023, your correspondent attended NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Denver, Colorado. This was the first in-person instance of NTEN's annual conference since 2019 …
If you are like me, online meeting schedulers are one of those tools you can't imagine what life was like before you started using it. One of the big providers in that sector is Calendly, wh…
It's spring, so your artistic operations team might be in the thick of drafting and sending contracts to next season's guest artists. Regardless of your contracting cycle or when you read th…
While there are plenty of free online QR code generators, the vast majority have enough pain points to make them less of a useful tool and more of a pain in the neck. The majority of times I…
If you're a PC user, there's a fabulous app that's been around since the days of Windows 95 but you can easily download from the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 and 11. Unfortunately, Microso…
If your programming runs from fall to spring/early summer, you most likely have a fiscal year that begins in mid-summer, and you most likely are presently in budget season. Here are two quic…
JCA Arts Marketing recently released a study measuring subscription sales at arts and culture organizations. While prefaced with a friendly "don't panic" notification (Douglas Adams fans wil…
Disappointingly to the broader nonprofit community, including many arts organizations, Amazon announced on January 18 that effective February 20, 2023, it is closing its AmazonSmile program.…
If you aren't already aware, AI copy generators are becoming all the rage. While I won't blame anyone for responding to that with a healthy 🙄, I can also say my recent experience wi…
If you ever have employees or artists traveling to or from your organization's home city, your organization should be earning small business travel rewards whenever possible. Many hotel chai…
Over the past couple of days, I've been reminded why we shouldn't rely on relative time-based words and phrases like "today," "tomorrow," or "next week" when posting on social media. Why, yo…
You've probably found yourself in a position at some point or another where you needed to create a bunch or rows with dates that increased/decreased by a fixed amount for each row. You could…
Many arts organizations will have artists as well as other vendors that need not only payment for their service fees, but also will incur various reimbursable expenses while providing their …
Every browser provides a straightforward solution to exporting and importing bookmarks but what if you only want to share some or only those from specific folders? For Chrome users, that's n…
Earlier this fall, Mastercard issued new rules for merchants processing recurring credit card charges on its network (essentially, merchants who process recurring charges to a Mastercard-bra…
Considering the decision by Twitter's new CEO to reduce the company's product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety departments to levels that can no longer effectively prevent rampant a…
We've all been there, on one end of the conversation or the other: it's the end of the month and the finance team is missing receipts for charges on company credit cards. Cardholders get a l…
I know many of you use Canva , so I've got some great news for you! Canva is a great tool for nonprofits to create everyday design assets such as social media posts, digital display ads, ema…
For decades now there has been a belief that the lower the ratio of non-profit's overhead expenses to program expense, the better run the non-profit is. As a result, a low overhead ratio…
Clearing browser cookies is just one of those things you need to do every now and then but clearing them out in bulk can be a serious hassle, such as losing all of your saved login info. ð�…
Ok folks, let's talk about arts organizations on TikTok. In the past few months, I've noticed more and more establishing a presence and totally rocking it! I've been in the industry for the …
For arts managers outside the finance team, the idea of an audit may seem either terrifying or mundane. Even some inside the finance teams, of organizations of all sizes, the annual external…
My colleague and frequent collaborator Ann Marie Sorrell is fond of saying that engagement with diverse communities must be more than "checking a box" and she's absolutely correct. Ann M…
