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Hiring for digital business development
This is a quick ‘I told you so’ post in light of some of the contents of Film Forever, the BFI’s newly-released, 5-year strategy report. Particularly this bit (as reported by The Guardian): the BFI...
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Development and fundraising: how arts organisations put their case
The other day I asked the great Twitter hive mind this question: Are there any arts orgs that talk about their development work or feature blog posts/updates from their development teams on their...
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Arts organisations making money with smartphone apps?
A couple of weeks back I wrote that arts organisations don’t seem to be as interested in apps as some people may suspect they are. Turns out that’s not entirely the case. I recently came across an...
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Links for 14 October 2012
First up, popularity contests for websites! Experian Hitwise’s Top 10 Awards for the most popular UK websites in various categories include: Entertainment – Arts: Guardian Culture, Tate, V&A, Royal...
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AoDL: Digital project management
The other week I spoke at an Art of Digital London event at The Photographers’ Gallery. The topic was digital project management – not a sexy subject, and not one that usually gets discussed much....
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Practitioners and cheerleaders
It’s nice when someone articulates something (at least partly) that’s been dancing around the edge of your thoughts, so thanks to Pete Ashton who’s been thinking out loud about: the distinction,...
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Commitment and attention
A post called Evoking the Object: Physicality in the Digital Age of Music grabbed me the other day. There’s lots wrapped up in there – the interplay of analogue and digital, personalisation through...
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Links for 4 November 2012
I finally got round to listening to James Burke’s excellent talk by from dConstruct. Definitely give that a listen, it’s the most thought-provoking thing I’ve listened to in a while and is entertaining...
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Runaway comments
The Oatmeal’s latest, some thoughts and musings on making things for the web, is an entertaining ramble through the preoccupations of a full-time web content creator. It’s well worth a look and I bet...
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Art of Digital London: Arts Video Networks
On Friday I was at The Photographer’s Gallery for another Art of Digital London meet-up, this time discussing opportunities of video networks and the various approaches arts organisations might take....
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Links for 15 December 2012
Now here’s a thing: The Arts Holland linked open data platform gives developers free access to a rich interconnected collection of data on tourism and culture, allowing them to build smart innovative...
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Research into arts partons’ mobile preferences
Group of Minds, the arts and technology consultants over in Silicon Valley, have commissioned an update to their 2009 research into the mobile preferences of arts patrons. You can download the report...
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Visualising movement in museums and on stage
A couple of roughly related projects, both looking at how people move around in cultural contexts. The first one looks at how museum visitors find their way through collections. Andrew Oriani is a...
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Report: Beyond the Curtain – How Digital Media is Reshaping Theatre
Beyond The Curtain – How Digital Media is Reshaping Theatre [PDF] is a report that came out at the beginning of 2012, although I’ve only just come across it. It was released by Ballinran...
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Links for January 2013
Hands down the most fascinating thing I’ve come across online in the past month has been the New York Times’ multimedia feature, Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. I tend to steer clear of the...
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Report: Digital Giving in the Arts
Digital Giving in the Arts is: An independent report commissioned by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on the scope for harnessing digital technology to boost charitable giving to...
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Introducing a new series: Arts Analytics
I’m starting a new series of posts that that I’m calling Arts Analytics. I’ve chosen a group of 100 arts organisations and, on a regular basis, I’m going to use various digital metrics to see how...
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Mobile websites in the arts sector
This is the first post in the Arts Analytics series and, to kick things off, I thought I’d start with something straightforward – mobile websites. I’ll cover things in this series of posts that are...
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Arts organisations and branded AdWords
For the second post in my Arts Analytics series I wondered how many of my group of 100 arts organisations are using Google AdWords. I’m sure you’ll come across AdWords before. You create adverts and...
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Links for February 2013
I’m in the video above, but I’m not posting it for purely narcissistic reasons (after all, I have a fair claim to be the least awesome person in it). I noticed that it was posted on the YouTube...
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