Chris Unitt

This is from the concluding paragraph of Doug Borwick (President of the AAAE amongst other things)’s recent post, El Sistema: The Phenomenon: As more established arts institutions come to understand the need to establish community relevance as part of their long-term prosperity (or survival) the more necessary it

On Thursday I was at the Arts Marketing Association‘s Digital Marketing Day at Sadler’s Wells. I made a few notes. Keynote: The Connected Network Neil Perkin (Only Dead Fish) and Susan Halligan (former Marketing Director, New York Public Library) Neil‘s talk set the scene for the day

I have an odd habit – I collect snippets of celebrities’ musings about social media. For instance, this from Mike Skinner: one of the things I’ve come to lately is that social media isn’t really for content providers, it’s for the people and if you place something on

November’s a good month if you’re interested in my opinion on sundry topics. If you’re not then, well… fine, but you’re not going to like the rest of this website. Before I get into the list, here I am on Lanyrd. I like Lanyrd a lot.

The Guardian Culture Professionals Network launched this morning, having been announced a few weeks back via their Twitter account. In their own words: This is a place where professionals from all departments in arts and heritage organisations – including audience development, communications, education, fundraising, finance, logistics, management and policy – can come

Just a quick one. A few years back there were stories in the papers (accurate or not) about people/bands/whatever coming to wider prominence having built an audience via their Myspace accounts (think Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Tila Tequila and so on). Meanwhile on Wikipedia there’s a whole

To kick things off, there are two reports that I’ve flicked through and decided need some proper attention. First up is Getting In On the Act: How Arts Groups are Creating Opportunities for Active Participation (PDF) from The James Irvine Foundation. Frankly, they had me at this diagram: I

The Arts Council have just released their plan for 2011-2015, setting out what they’ll do to deliver their ‘Achieving great art for everyone’ goals and priorities. On the digital side of things, there are various references to partnership, co-production and building capacity, while IP is flagged as

Last week I went along to Playful, a conference that describes itself as: a one-day event all about games and play — in all their manifestations, throughout the contemporary media landscape. It’s a conference for architects, artists, designers, developers, geeks, gurus, gamers, tinkerers, thinkerers, bloggers, joggers, and philosophers. There’

When I wrote that post about trailers in the theatre I searched around to find any discussion on the topic elsewhere. I couldn’t find much and what I could see was concerned with how bad they are. I also had a search around some theatres’ YouTube accounts and it