Across the board

  • Post NAMP conference musings

    Last week I traveled to Salt Lake City to present a panel session on Google Analytics at the NAMP conference. You can see the accompanying micro site here. It was interesting to see how much has changed and yet how little has changed. Arts marketers are still figuring out new tools, but the tools have…

  • Settling in Austin, Texas

    A lot has happened since my last blog post. Remember I was moving down to Austin, Texas? I am settling in quite nicely. Where I would have been happy with a job, I ended up with a dream job. En route with the moving truck, somewhere in Arkansas, I learned that I was going to…

  • Moving to Austin, Texas

    I am no stranger to adventurous moves. In 2002, after finishing high school, I went to work in a ski resort in Austria. Later that year, I moved to London, England because of an American girl I met my first day in Austria. We simply packed our bags, took the bus to London from Amsterdam,…

  • TGIF: Orchestra Fail

    No, this is not a post about some massive arts marketing fail by an orchestra. I was just typing in “orchestra” on Google and it automatically suggested it be followed by “fail.” Now that piqued my interest and I couldn’t resist. Here’s the original #orchestrafail: More than 1 million views already! It also spurred some…

  • What five years of blogging gets you

    This September marks my five years of blogging (Mashable only beats me by a couple of months; read a nice roundup of the last 5 years of blogging from their perspective). I just returned from the stART.10 Conference in Duisburg, Germany, where I delivered a keynote address last Friday. I now realize the presentation was…