Donor management

Changing the Narrative: Interview with Aubrey Bergauer

Changing the Narrative: Interview with Aubrey Bergauer

In this episode, Grace Puckett and Michaela White interview Aubrey Bergauer, the former Executive Director of the California Symphony, a consultant for arts organizations, and the Vice President of Strategic Communications & Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. They discuss some of Aubrey’s strategies for organizational growth, turnaround, data collection, and audience retention within orchestra management.

Interview with Fractured Atlas' Selena Juneau-Vogel: The philosophy of Artful.ly and the future of CRM software

Interview with Fractured Atlas' Selena Juneau-Vogel: The philosophy of Artful.ly and the future of CRM software

This week, I spoke with Selena Juneau-Vogel, Artful.ly’s Program Director, who has been with the project almost since the beginning. Our wide-ranging conversation covered everything from past names of the project, such as ATHENA (don’t ask her what it stands for, nobody could remember), to the future of CRM, which Selena feels will involve “social CRM”—the integration of social media into patron records. Listen to the whole piece below to hear more about how:

Take Off Your Fundraiser Hat! Kickstarter Tips with Stephanie Pereira

For those of you keeping score at home, Technology In The Arts is a research initiative by the Master of Arts Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University. This gives us access to a pretty awesome speaker series. Last Friday Stephanie Pereira, the Art Program Director of Kickstarter, stopped by and gave an amazing talk. We opened this week with a great discussion from Sean on our Kickstarter panel – and you can watch the entire talk here! It’s about an hour long, so here’s a cheat sheet on how best to useKickstarter based on the talk (and a few questions I managed to sneak in after!)