June 28, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute
By NICOLE WALLACE
As of July 1, Arts Wire — a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts that helps artists and arts organizations use technology — will discontinue its Web-hosting and e-mail services to focus on its weekly e-mail newsletter, Arts Wire Current, and on its technology-training and planning programs.
“At the time Arts Wire was created, there were no other organizations or services for artists to get online communications or Internet access at reasonable rates,” says Penelope Dannenberg, the foundation’s director of programs, “and there are so many possibilities for e-mail service and Web hosting now.”
The foundation worked with Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Arts Management and Technology, in Pittsburgh, to transfer the Web sites of arts organizations it had hosted to the university’s ArtsNet server. The foundation has also negotiated reduced rates for individual artists’ Web sites with C I Host, an Internet-services company in Bedford, Tex.
Ms. Dannenberg says that getting out of the technology-services business will allow the foundation to focus on activities like Knowledge in Technology, a technology-planning program the foundation has offered for the past two years to arts organizations with annual budgets of less than $1-million.
The program, which is presented regionally, includes a workshop in which participants discuss the basics of technology planning, one-on-one sessions with the foundation’s technology consultants in which each organization creates its own technology plan, and an e-mail list in which participants can discuss their technology challenges.
For more information: Go to http://www.artswire.org/webhost.
