Chris Unitt

Thoughts on posters - accents and kerning

I was staring at posters on the Tube earlier today and a couple of them made me think. I didn’t take pics but you’ll get the gist from these screenshots. Here’s the first one. I was idly wondering whether that accent in ‘Coppélia’ has any affect on

Doing better next time round

Last week I put out a report based on a survey of arts organisations, having asked them what effect changes to Facebook have had on their respective Facebook Pages. You can download it from the One Further website. I was pretty pleased with how it went. Within a pretty short

Contribute to this survey about Facebook for arts and culture marketers

I’m running a survey about how arts and culture organisations are using Facebook. The main things I want to find out are: * whether organisations have noticed any effect from changes Facebook has made * what they’re planning to do in the future The resulting report should make for interesting

Arts Analytics: Accessibility

On 15 May 2014 it was Global Accessibility Awareness Day: The purpose of the day is to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. I’ve only just become aware of this (better late than never) so thought it

A bit of BFI Player feedback

A couple of days ago, while thinking about the whole ‘MCN for the arts‘ thing that I mentioned in the last post, I popped over to BFI Player to see what’s happening with that. There was a survey and, having 5 mins to spare and being a civic-minded individual,

Agile commissioning and the arts

Last week I knocked together a search engine for UK arts organisations. Why did you do that, Chris? Honestly? It was partly for a joke and partly because it was easy enough to do. It started with posting the news that Arts Council England are commissioning a £1.8m ‘Multi-Channel

Announcing One Further

Last week I announced the launch of One Further. One Further is a digital consultancy and it’s where I’ll be earning my keep from now on. I’m planning to keep working within the arts and culture sector (although not exclusively), mostly around: * Content: strategy, planning and production

Arts Organisations on Facebook: who's doing best?

In this post I wanted to take a look at which of the organisations in my sample group seem to be getting some traction on Facebook. I wanted to see who’s attracted the most attention, who’s making the biggest noise at the moment and (especially) who’s managing

Arts Analytics: Title, Description and Keywords

It’s the first Arts Analytics post in a little while so I thought I’d go with something simple. I wanted to look at how many of the arts organisations in my sample group have been diligent in making sure their homepages have: * Title tags * Meta description * Meta keywords

Backwards and forwards

I’ve been looking back at the past year of posts on this site to see what I want to carry on and what I want to rethink. It’s pretty easy to bundle 2013’s posts into a few themes – arts analytics, big data, monthly links, thoughts on research