Welcome to everyone who has started to follow this blog in the last few months.
Whether you started based on Barry Hessenius’ recent listing of this blog as one of the 15 that have bubbled to the top of his reading list, his list of Top 50 Influential people in Non-profit arts, some other source or just by serendipity, I am glad to have you here.
If you haven’t checked out Barry’s list this week, you may want to do so. It is an interesting collection of sites. I believe, not including my own, I read 12 of those blogs on a weekly basis.
I am pleased to have been included on these list. As of February, I will have been writing this blog for 11 years. While I think I have made some great posts over the past decade, part of me has felt like I have really only hit a good stride in terms of quality in the last 3-4 years.
Of course, it is all really relative. In 4 more years if I have continued to refine my skills, I will probably feel these last few years haven’t measured up to what I may be producing then.
As I sit here a few days after appearing on a “my favorites” list, it is probably ironic that in the pursuit of providing a better user experience to my readers, I have deleted my blog roll.
It may reappear again at some time. But I have let it languish for years, constantly swearing that I would delete or revise it “next weekend.” Many of the sites have long since disappeared or changed their addresses so the list was continuing to decrease in value to readers.
In the future I am going to try to do a better job of providing a good reading experience and useful resources for my readers.
On that subject, thanks to the recent efforts of Drew McManus, as you can see from the mockup below, people using tablets and phones to read the blog should have a much easier time reading and navigating this site. (So if you aren’t reading on those devices, you can start now!)
In terms of providing useful resources, I should take this opportunity to point everyone to the newly launched ArtsHacker website where I am a contributor.
As that site expands its content, you will find an increasing number of tips useful for all the hats you wear at your job. But don’t wait for us to suggest a solution for your pressing concerns–use the contact form on the right of the ArtsHacker site to ask a question.
Of course, if you have a question for me, ask it in the comments section or use the contact tab at the top of this page (or near the side on your tablet!)
Thanks again to everyone for your support.
Thanks! I faithfully read your entries and always wonder where you find the time to write these long posts!
Thanks for reading Rainer. I don’t always have the time. That is why I moved to only posting Monday-Wednesday. Some of the posts get started on other days of the week. Some I write in my head throughout the day. But often they are the result of hours’ long slogs. Even with the short ones, when I think “oh great, I will be done in about 20 minutes,” it ends up taking longer after I fuss over rewording.