A few interesting items caught my attention this week. Drew McManus, writer of the classical music blog, Adaptistration, found a financial model 
that provides the "value" of classical music blogs. Drew was nice to include our humble little site that, lo and behold, is valued at $22,017.06. I'm wondering what gave us the extra 6 cents worth of value. I'm also wondering what we need to do to reach the $220,000 value of the top-ranked Arts Journal. Suggestions?
Another article that caught my attention this week was Andrew Patner's Chicago Sun-Times column about the recent successes experienced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Congratulations to CEO, Deborah Card, for her stewardship of Chicago's flagship classical music organization. Ticket sales are up, the budget is balanced for the first time in a long while, and the artistic product has been broadened to appeal to many new audience members.
Finally, we have some changes coming on this site very soon. We are working on a re-design of the site that will include some new and exciting functions (more about this in the future), we are saying goodbye to Steve Burkholder, our long-time Webmaster who is leaving us for some new opportunities (Thanks Steve!!), and we are welcoming a new Site Manager, Angela Golden, who will begin her work in just a few weeks (Welcome Angela!) and is the author of next week's blog.
That's it for today. Don't forget to send me suggestions on how to up our blog value.
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