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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Microsoft PowerToys: The Hack You Didn’t Know You Wanted by Drew McManus

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, M…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:16PM
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

If You Aren’t Selling Flex Subscriptions, You’re Missing Out by Drew McManus

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 fa…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:19PM
Monday, January 16, 2023

Take Some Time To Explore AI Copy Generators by Drew McManus

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 with…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:39PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

An Excel Trick To Quickly Increment Dates For Each Row by Drew McManus

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 cou…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:58PM
Monday, November 7, 2022

How To Share Specific Bookmarks And Bookmark Folders Between Users by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 01:13PM
Monday, October 31, 2022

We’ve Suspended ArtsHacker’s Twitter Account. Here Are The Reasons. by Drew McManus

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 rampa…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:28AM
Monday, October 3, 2022

A Smarter Way To Crumble Browser Cookies by Drew McManus

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. …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:25PM
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Using The Fitts’s Law To Become A Better Manager by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:51PM
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Stop Using Carousels And Sliders (The Wrong Way) by Drew McManus

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 bac…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:37PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The Cost Of Doing Business Online Is Going Up And It Has Nothing To Do With Inflation by Drew McManus

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 c…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 07:03PM
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Find Out Who’s Tuned In To Arts Organizations Today by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:42PM
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Using The Zeigarnik Effect To Become A Better Manager by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:15PM
Monday, February 28, 2022

The Time To Review Cybersecurity and Disruption Plans Is Now by Drew McManus

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 Ukr…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:19PM
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Using Parkinson’s Law To Become A Better Manager by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 02:57PM
Monday, February 7, 2022

Using The Law of Common Region To Become A Better Manager by Drew McManus

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 …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:17PM
Sunday, January 30, 2022

Using The Serial Position Effect To Become A Better Manager by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:35PM
Sunday, January 2, 2022

Advocacy Alert: Contact The White House About Establishing A National Vaccination Status Program by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 03:31PM
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Why “Click Here” & “This Link” Are Choices To Avoid For Web And Email Links by Drew McManus

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 fi…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:33PM
Sunday, November 28, 2021

GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress Data Breach And What You Should Do If It Impacts Your Organization by Drew McManus

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 …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 02:54PM
Sunday, November 14, 2021

A Sales Email Subject Line So Good You Have To Steal It by Drew McManus

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 inbo…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:45PM
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Is Facebook Not Sharing The Correct Info From Your Website? by Drew McManus

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 i…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:07PM
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Use This Chrome Shortcut To Open Multiple Bookmarks At Once by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:42PM
Thursday, September 30, 2021

The Secret To Converting Paragraph Breaks Into Line Breaks And Creating Comma Separated Lists by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 06:09PM
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Do All Of Your Web Pages Have Conversion Goals? by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:12PM
Sunday, September 5, 2021

The Status Of Required Vaccination Policies Among Nonprofit Performing Arts Orgs by Drew McManus

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 …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:29PM
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Looking To The EEOC For Clarification On Religious Discrimination Vaccination Exemptions by Drew McManus

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 …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:14PM
Monday, August 23, 2021

Resource: Performing Arts Org Vax Policy Database by Drew McManus

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…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 11:50AM
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Free 2021 Insta Profile, TikTok, YouTube Channel, Insta Stories, Facebook, and LinkedIn Company PSD Mockups by Drew McManus

The folks at Kambadastudio recently released a round of new high quality photoshop templates for a wide variety of social media platforms and along with their paid options, they included a s…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:46PM
Monday, July 19, 2021

If Google Analytics 4 Feels Overwhelming, You’re Not Alone by Drew McManus

It’s easy to look at the new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboards and feel completely lost. For those who don’t have a great deal of experience working with GA4 you may think the issue is…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:04PM
Sunday, June 6, 2021

Another New SBA Funding Program You Should Be Aware Of (With A Bonus Resource Hidden Gem) by Drew McManus

In early April, 2021 the U.S. Small Business Administration announced it was expanding the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and EIDL Advance program and as this last weekend, they annou…

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 05:03PM
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Sold-Out Ticket Scams Start Hitting Social Media by Drew McManus

Scammers haven’t wasted any time attempting to suck blood from the turnip of burgeoning performing arts org concert activity. The latest attempt to exploit organizations focuses on events …

SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:52PM

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