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This series is designed to help those working in the arts and culture sector apply user experience (UX) best practices to daily content management tasks. Using Jon Yablonski's collecti…
Here at ArtsHacker, we've been warning arts admins against the practice of using sliders and carousels as a strategy to deliver mutually exclusive messages within a single space as far back …
While it may not seem like a big price increase, .com domain registrations and renewals are going to go up 6.9 percent. That's likely just the beginning thanks to the sweetheart deal the com…
The folks at Capacity Interactive (CI) recently published the latest installment of their Performing Arts Ticket Buyer Media Usage Study. The previous installment was released right before C…
This series is designed to help those working in the arts and culture sector apply user experience (UX) best practices to daily content management tasks. Using Jon Yablonski's collecti…
If you haven't done so already, it's time to make sure you're as prepared as you can for disruptions to digital platforms because of cyberattacks resulting from events unfolding in Ukraine. …
I nerd out a lot about email marketing. Why? It is the most versatile and personal digital communications channel we have. We can segment our list to send highly relevant messages and see da…
This series is designed to help those working in the arts and culture sector apply user experience (UX) best practices to daily content management tasks. Using Jon Yablonski's collecti…
If you have read my previous posts, you know how much I love the Pew Research Center " there is so much great data from which we can learn. Recently, they put out their Striking Findings for…
This series is designed to help those working in the arts and culture sector apply user experience (UX) best practices to daily content management tasks. Using Jon Yablonski's collection …
This article is the first in a series designed to help those working in the arts and culture sector apply user experience (UX) best practices to common tasks and beyond. Using Jon Yablonski'…
That is the question. Whether 'tis more effective to send SMS messages to your patrons, or to take a stance against it and by opposing, miss out. With 97% of Americans owning a mobile phone,…
As we begin the new year, I want to encourage everyone to contact the White House and encourage the administration to advocate for a national vaccination status program that can be adopted a…
It's no secret that many of us in the industry have been pushing organizations to list the salary range when advertising a job. This week, New York City has passed a law that employers must …
Way back in 2016, ArtsHacker Phil Paschke wrote an article about why you want to begin moving away from using phrases like "click here" in web and digital marketing copy. Fast forward five y…
On November 22, 2022, GoDaddy informed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of a security breach for 1.2 million users on its managed WordPress servers. According to the report, the …
Looking for a great sales email subject line that leverages buyer's fear over supply shortages? If so, I have exactly what you're looking for courtesy of an email that arrived in my inbox ov…
Spoiler: it's (mostly) not your fault. As if there weren't enough reasons for Facebook to send content managers screaming into the night, one of their long-standing bear traps didn't improve…
Every content manager routinely opens multiple browser bookmarks throughout the week. Sure, you can add each one to your bookmark bar and open them one…at…a…time or you can use this si…
Pretty much every arts administrator knows the pain of looking at a long list of content in a Microsoft Word document where each line is separated by a paragraph, but you need them separated…
Conversion goals are one of those odd things every arts marketer seems to know they need but for whatever reason, most groups have too many webpages with zero goals. For those on the outside…
As organizations return to in-person events, many are deciding whether to have a vaccine mandate for staff, artists, and/or ticket buyers/attendees. My colleague Drew McManus is compiling a …
The  Vax Policy Database has been gathering data since August 20, 2021 and it's been adding new records daily. Over the holiday weekend, I added additional view to the database making it …
Among the numerous details to work out when crafting required vaccination policies is when an employee cites religious objections and requests an exmpetion. Recently, the 8/30/21 edition of …
Insisting on verifiable vaccination status to attend concert events is becoming policy at an increasing number of nonprofit performing arts venues. But coming up with policies and tracking p…
