Chris Unitt

Culture24 Report: How to evaluate online success

Culture24 have published the findings of an Action Research Project, with the final report titled ‘Let’s Get Real: How to evaluate online success‘ (PDF download). It’s good, and well worth a read. Having instigated the project, they coordinated efforts between 17 cultural organisations, with the aim being: to

Twespians - Theatre PR: Are we doing all we can?

On Monday, the top room of The Old Crown was the venue for Twespians* a regular get-together for those working in and around theatre PR. It was my first time there and, from what I could make out, there were in-house PR folks, specialist theatre PR people and

Waste of time and effort?

A couple of interesting tweets from Roger Tomlinson regarding the ACE/NESTA Digital R&D fund. He noted that 459 applications were received, asking for in excess of £28.5m. The fund has just £500,000 to distribute to roughly 10 projects. Roger asks whether this establishes a need.

Digital Participation and Learning case studies from the Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund have released a report called Digital Participation and Learning: 22 Case Studies. The case studies are intended to: illustrate a wide range of approaches to using digital media to engage people with culture and heritage And these are they: * ArtBabble (Indianapolis Museum of Art) * Chester: Revealing

Arts/Digital on Thoora

Thoora is a service for aggregating a bunch of information around a topic. It combines automatic discovery with human curation. In their words, it’s: a new way for you to discover, monitor, and share the best of the web: by creating living bodies of knowledge on the topics you

Collaboration: dates before marriage

I’ve used this analogy a few times in various chats, meetings, steering groups and so on over the past few years and thought I should probably commit it to blog: Collaboration’s like marriage. Before getting wed it’s a good idea to go on a few dates Of

How arts organisations can find technology providers

This topic has come up so many times recently – in the past couple of months it’s been raised at the AMA Conference, at the ACE/NESTA Digital Day in Birmingham and at the Art of Digital London meet-up. It’s obvious why. The word on the street is

Art grazing

I met Rowan Rutter, a producer with the Bureau of Silly Ideas, the other day. She happened to mention how it’d be nice to be sent an online artistic or cultural thing she could interact with at her desk over lunch. I quite liked the idea and asked Twitter

Art of Digital: London. Digital Economic Models – tried and tested to blue sky

Just a quick note to thank the folks from Art of Digital: London and The Photographers’ Gallery for, respectively, organising and hosting last night’s event which was a discussion about digital economic models. There was an interesting spread of people there, from individual artists to people working at RFOs.

The Arts v art and in praise of the telephone

Nicely expressed in Rachel Coldicutt’s write-up of her Edgelands talk: The Arts is a system that needs all the help it can get. It’s an infrastructure that needs trustworthy services to make businesses run and deliver services to patrons. Rather than making innovative ticketing systems, brand new