There are all sorts of ways for artists and makers to sell their wares online. Decent storefront options abound and generally come in one of three flavours: * Individual stores such as Shopify, Goodsie, Big Cartel and Storebeez * Market places like Etsy, Folksy and eBay * Bespoke websites Putting aside the market

At this time of year I tend to search out some of the best albums lists churned out by websites, magazines, record shops and so on to see what I might’ve missed over the past year (those things do serve some purpose). A good starting place is Metacritic, which

Mailing lists are great. Sign up to one and, on a regular basis, suggestions for interesting things to do will drop into your inbox. What’s not to love about that? They’re especially good for getting to grips with a new city. The problem is that they’re sometimes

Let’s start with something that made me nod my head quite a bit. It’s a post titled Digitally-literate staff are key to charity digital success and it’s a slightly better written version of a rant that I sometimes go off on. The whole thing’s worth but

This year there have been a few websites and projects aimed at presenting online (and offline) statistics relating to museums. These are the ones I’ve seen, in chronological order. There may well be more, so if I’ve missed any good ones then let me know. When Should I

The last of my November speaking gigs took place on Wednesday. I was at Fazeley Studios in Birmingham on a panel alongside the (recently BAFTA winning) Brothers McLeod and Pete Ashton (who’s blogged about it briefly and linked to his notes). The event was called The Beauty of Digital:

I was asked to do a talk at last week’s Arts Marketing Association‘s first  Tweet Meet – essentially a bunch of concurrent regional get-togethers with a shared Twitter hashtag. Firstly, a big thanks to Tim and Amy, the West Mids coordinators, for asking me to talk and for risking

Last week I was back at The Old Crown for a Twespians PR event. It was a follow-up to September’s PR-centric panel discussion and was titled ‘Pushing it to its limits’. Here’s some copy/pasted blurb by way of explanation: we’re wanting to open up the floor

I’ve been involved in a few conferences, talks and livechats recently and am just catching up with notes and so on here. Hello Culture Due to a busy workload on the day, I was only able to duck into Hello Culture long enough to talk on a panel discussing

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 will