I’m always keen to latch on to some decent new research/stats/whatever. Here’s a couple of new things from last week. Mobile website traffic and arts organisations: some figures This is a post from over on the Made Media website. I helped write it, but it was

If you skip everything else, at least watch this video of Ira Glass talking about getting good at something. I definitely identified with that. A little while back, John Coburn (who I was pleased to meet at Bits to Blogs a few weeks back) wrote a very interesting post called

A couple of weeks ago I was in Newcastle to give a talk at an event called Bits to Blogs at the Great North Museum: Bits 2 Blogs is the regional e-learning event for museum, library and archive professionals in the North East. It provides a varied day of presentations

Matter is a new journalism project that’s currently raising funds via Kickstarter. Within hours of launching it drew a particularly unpleasant response from Stephen Robert Morse, a Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow at the City University of New York. At this point I’ll mention I haven’t backed the

This blog post from Birmingham Opera Company has a lot to recommend it: * It’s on Tumblr, which means I can subscribe to get more updates, either by RSS or by hitting the ‘follow’ button. There are links to Twitter and Facebook accounts too if I’m interested in following

This post is a follow-up to my previous one and is about using data from social media to improve decision-making in marketing. Don’t say you weren’t warned. First up, an example (with apologies to anyone who feels like I’m picking on them). A poor assumption I’d

On Friday I went along to the Twespians Fringe: Social Media and Theatre talk given by Sven Ruggenberg (I mentioned his thesis on the topic in an earlier post). You can see Sven’s presentation on Prezi below. The crowd was a mixture Twespians and Society of London Theatre members.

There’s a general lack of decent information about the use of digital and social media in the arts and culture sector. It’s a frequent source of frustration when doing research and more strategic work. However, a couple of things have come along recently. Social Media in Theatre Marketing

On Thursday night I went along to the first Transmedia London of 2012, held in the rarefied surroundings of BAFTA. There were massive gold faces everywhere. It was a good evening with a good variety of speakers speaking from different perspectives. Here are a few of the notes I scribbled…

Philip Hensher in the Independent has written one of those pieces lamenting the way people use technology at live events and experiences, asking ‘Do you want an experience, or just to film it?‘ I dunno. There’s a part of me that sympathises with this kind of thing and I