Chris Unitt

Warwick Commission - the digital stuff

In Feb 2015 the Warwick Commission released their final report titled Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth [PDF]. Here’s the blurb about it: The Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value has conducted a 12 month inquiry into how Britain can secure greater value from its cultural and

The Cultural Digital newsletter

Earlier today I sent out the first edition of the Cultural Digital newsletter. If you want, you can sign up to the list here. Or, if you’re reading this on my site, via the various prompts you may well have seen. The idea is to send out links to

Digital leadership in the arts

Back in February 2015, the Warwick Commission on Cultural Value published the results of their year-long investigation. Will Perrin spoke to them about digital issues in the British cultural scene and philanthropy and produced an evidence paper back in Jan 2014 that I’ve only recently got round to

Notes from Measurecamp 7, London

Last weekend I went along to Measurecamp, an unconference for folks interested in digital analytics. Very good it was too. There were about 250 people there, all unfailingly friendly, polite and interesting. It was my first time there, and I found that even the old hands were up for meeting

Declining search interest in off-West End theatres

I’m just throwing this here as it came up when I was looking at something else. Here are the Google Trends results for a handful of off-West End theatres. I can tell what a couple of the recent spikes are. The recent BAC (red) one will have been

My journey to Instapaper Zero

I know the title sounds faintly (ok, a bit more than that) ridiculous, but… it is what it is. If you’ve found this post because you too reached the end of your tether then I hope you’ll understand. A couple of months ago I had about 1,400

Things I've written elsewhere

Over the past few months I’ve been writing bits and pieces on all sorts of other websites. Seeing as I’ve not written so much here, I thought I should bring everything together. I’ve been writing things about: * How digital distribution affects cultural orgs’ business models * The new

A couple of thoughts on digital project lifespans

I’ve seen a couple of posts about project lifespans recently. The subject’s come up through work a few times too. Avoiding abandonment First up, Keir Winesmith blogged about SFMOMA’s three 18 three approach: Put simply, when you are planning and budgeting a new digital initiative, don’t

Thoughts from MuseumNext

Last week I was at MusuemNext in Geneva. It’s an international conference on the future of museums and has been going for a little while now. I’ve had my eye on it for a while – what’s not to love about visiting European cities to hear interesting people

Shareable exhibitions

A quick observation. A while back I remember talking to someone about how, one day, promoters might start taking into account things like Twitter followers into account when booking bands and DJs. it wasn’t a huge leap to make – MySpace must’ve been getting close to it’s peak