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Looking for artists in Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District!

For over a year now, I’ve been telling people that Fractured Atlas’s membership includes at least one artist or organization from all but one US Congressional district. That’s right - we’ve been stuck at 434 out of 435.
(If you’re interested to see how those 434 shake out, you can see a live breakdown of the [...]

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My Data’s Bigger than Your Data

Perhaps the hottest lingo in Silicon Valley these days is “big data”. Once upon a time, the only folks who needed to worry about massive, unstructured (or semi-structured) data sets were scientists running weather simulators or investment banks designing high-frequency trading strategies. Not anymore.
Sunday’s NY Times ran an article on the increasing ubiquity of sprawling [...]

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Sell Tickets Anywhere (Even at the Door) with Artful.ly

We’re in the closing weeks of the private beta for Artful.ly, Fractured Atlas’s new cloud-based software for selling tickets, raising money, and managing patrons. But before we go public, we’ve got a few more features and tweaks to roll out that we think will make Artful.ly really special. This morning we took an important step closer [...]

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A New Look for Artful.ly

Fast on the heels of Fractured Atlas’s redesigned website launch, we’ve rolled out a new look for Artful.ly as well!
We think it’s pretty handsome, but don’t take our word for it. Check it out and let us know what you think.

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More Arts Groups Sign On to Oppose SOPA/PIPA

Last week I told you why Fractured Atlas is opposing SOPA and PIPA, a pair of bills in Congress that claim to protect the rights of artists but would be both ineffective at that goal and damaging to the technical fabric of the internet. We were the first major arts organization to take this stand, [...]

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New Look, New Logo, New Website

Fractured Atlas has gotten a face lift! Actually, it’s more like radical reconstructive surgery, and boy was it overdue…
If you’re reading this on our website (as opposed to in an email or feed reader), then you’ll already have noticed the new logo, color scheme, and web design. This is the first serious refresh since 1999, [...]

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The Wrong Way to Protect IP

For a few months now we’ve been tracking a couple of ostensibly artist-friendly bills in Congress that are designed to enhance the ability of copyright-holders to enforce their rights online by shutting down websites dedicated to piracy of intellectual property. Think MP3s, movies, and filesharing (and some more nefarious stuff, too, like Russian websites that [...]

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With Artful.ly, Your Data is YOUR Data

We’re three months into private beta for Artful.ly, Fractured Atlas’s new online software for selling tickets, accepting donations, and managing contacts.  We’ve been plugging away, adding new features, and generally trying to make it awesome(r).
This week we released some basic features for handling imports and exports. That might sound mundane, but the ability to easily [...]

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Artful.ly in the Wild: Keeping Patrons on Your Site

We’re now roughly 6 weeks into the private beta of Artful.ly. (To refresh your memory, Artful.ly is Fractured Atlas’s new online software for managing your tickets, donations, and contacts.) As of this morning, 53 intrepid organizations have taken the plunge. (Request your invitation today!) We’re getting lots of valuable feedback, which is helping us improve Artful.ly [...]

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Fiscal Sponsorship, meet Artful.ly!

We’re now three weeks into the private beta of Artful.ly, Fractured Atlas’s new online software for managing your tickets, donations, and contacts. So far, 20 brave arts organizations have ventured into the thrilling terra incognita of pre-release software. Early feedback has been quite positive, and we’re diligently plugging away at features, tweaks, and the occasional [...]

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