November’s a good month if you’re interested in my opinion on sundry topics. If you’re not then, well… fine, but you’re not going to like the rest of this website. Before I get into the list, here I am on Lanyrd. I like Lanyrd a lot.

The Guardian Culture Professionals Network launched this morning, having been announced a few weeks back via their Twitter account. In their own words: This is a place where professionals from all departments in arts and heritage organisations – including audience development, communications, education, fundraising, finance, logistics, management and policy – can come

Just a quick one. A few years back there were stories in the papers (accurate or not) about people/bands/whatever coming to wider prominence having built an audience via their Myspace accounts (think Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Tila Tequila and so on). Meanwhile on Wikipedia there’s a whole

To kick things off, there are two reports that I’ve flicked through and decided need some proper attention. First up is Getting In On the Act: How Arts Groups are Creating Opportunities for Active Participation (PDF) from The James Irvine Foundation. Frankly, they had me at this diagram: I

The Arts Council have just released their plan for 2011-2015, setting out what they’ll do to deliver their ‘Achieving great art for everyone’ goals and priorities. On the digital side of things, there are various references to partnership, co-production and building capacity, while IP is flagged as a ‘challenge’

Last week I went along to Playful, a conference that describes itself as: a one-day event all about games and play — in all their manifestations, throughout the contemporary media landscape. It’s a conference for architects, artists, designers, developers, geeks, gurus, gamers, tinkerers, thinkerers, bloggers, joggers, and philosophers. There’s

When I wrote that post about trailers in the theatre I searched around to find any discussion on the topic elsewhere. I couldn’t find much and what I could see was concerned with how bad they are. I also had a search around some theatres’ YouTube accounts and it

As well as posting stuff on my own website a little more frequently, I’ve been interested in contributing occasional guest posts to other blogs. To that end, I’ve written something for the Arts Marketing Association. Its title is All Together Now and it’s a brief run through

I’m just back from the London Transport Museum where I’ve been listening to Usman Haque, Kevin Brown (Brothers and Sisters) and Sam Hoey (Jason Bruges Studio) talking about the city as a canvas: Increasingly new technologies such as projection mapping, augmented reality and geo-tagging are being used to

This is a quick exercise in collecting together some thoughts from a few other people. I’ve been mulling some stuff around for a little while which will probably result in a blog post at some point. It’s something to do with whether/how arts and culture websites (in