Board of Directors - Resources

SOCIAL MEDIA BEST PRACTICES

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https://www.youtube.com/@NACUSAmusic1

Tag Us:

@NACUSAmusic1

Share your news by tagging us. Share your events by tagging us. Follow us and share and like our posts. Social Networks are stronger through interaction - likes and shares build the network. ALGORITHMS ARE THE PRIMARY DRIVING FORCE BEHIND SOCIAL MEDIA. 

Visual Content:

We love photos and love to see our friends at NACUSA events. We would like to prioritize the following photo events, in order of preference:

1. People performing NACUSA music live

2. People enjoying a NACUSA event

3. Composers and performers collaborating (pre or post concert photos)

4. Opportunity promotion

5. Watching composers eat food

Video Content:

Your latest 12+ minute multi-movement work or an entire album is great - and congratulations! However, on social media it probably won't be observed as an entire performance. Please consider making a shorter 1 minute snippet that could tease going to a site to watch an entire performance (some of us would like to see the full performance). We would strongly encourage and support on topic performances - especially NACUSA-hosted events. This could be a performance or done in a less distracting manner - like during a warm up before the show. Observing the outreach metrics... for Facebook... longer videos only reach about 5 - 10% of followers, shorter videos will reach 75 - 85% of followers. Insta and FB videos have a greater chance of populating on an Insta or FB feed and YouTube videos will be buried.

Don't Get Banned!!!

Keep everything on topic. Promoting your side business or other ventures could get you banned from participating on our social servers. Politics, religion, and other highly opinionated or dogmatic material could get you banned... stay on topic with NACUSA (the performance and writing of contemporary music for the concert stage).

Communication

Our first level of communication is email. We also use Discord to facilitate communication.

Currently, Discord is used as a communication server for discussion amongst National Event Participants, Executive Leadership, National Event Planning, and Email Archiving.

Concert Reporting and Licensing

Events must have (1) the form completed and (2) a pdf of the program to upload. Chapter reports are due before the 1st of April (Jan - Mar concerts), 1st of July (Apr - Jun concerts), 1st of Oct (Jul - Sep concerts), and the 1st of Jan (Oct - Dec concerts). If you have a large number of events, please contact David Peoples for a fillable spreadsheet. If you have a concert on or near the deadline, please advise us so we can accommodate and include on our report.

The form is updated every year at the start of the year. The form is emailed directly to chapter leaders, if you have misplaced the form please contact David Peoples.

Call for Scores

The opportunities page is THE most visited page on our site. This is where you should publish any calls.

Add a Listing to the Opportunities Page

Procedural Information: Chapter Membership

Chapter membership's are reported on yearly spreadsheets sent out to each chapter individually by email. The addition of names to the reports is completely automated and names appear after successful payment.

These reports are sent by email to the chapter representatives following their renewed membership, if you have misplaced your link please contact David Peoples to forward the original message with your report. Each chapter receives the listings for their individual chapter, national lists are not provided to the chapters (if you would like to communicate with individual members outside of your chapter you may use ComposerUSA, the opportunities page, or our social sites).

It is each chapter's responsibility to verify their membership numbers and to coordinate dues with the treasurer. Dues payment is not an automated process and chapter leadership will need to coordinate their business information to ensure the smooth allocation of collected dues. Biannual payments are sent after the end of February and the end of August.

Procedural Information: Communicating with National Membership

Report all press releases and other news to the ComposerUSA editor. We will usually post to social sites as well, but chapters may tag us on social posts or request a special post. Inclusion on any of our national communications must be requested - the newsletter editor is Matthew Durrant. Copying the Director of Communications any email blasts or other marketing from your chapters will not result in automated placement on our National communications - they must be (1) sent with complete text and images to Matthew Durrant with a request to share and (2) include WHERE you would like it shared (ie the monthly newsletter, social sites, etc.).

501(c) Affirmation Letter

Archived Letter

Cloud Folders and Resources

Lifetime Members

Lifetime Members