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Why Social Media Should Matter to Artists.
Simply put, artists and organizations should dedicate time and money to social media because these sites: Are incredibly effective portals for organizations wanting to deepen connections with existing audiences; Encourage rapid exchange of visual information – ideal for artists and … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, attendance, audience, broadening, buying, communications, decisions, deepening, engagement, marketing, participation, social media, strategy, ticket
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Using Social Media to Engage Audiences
I was talking to a job-seeking friend recently and asked if she was comfortable with social media. She replied, “Heidi, there are very few people who are as comfortable with social media as you are.” Yep. Clients sometimes tell me … Continue reading
Posted in How To Be Famous, Professional Development, Technology and the Arts, What Works?
Tagged audience, base, blog, business, content, customers, engagement, facebook, focus, google+, how to, internet, knowledge, media, museum, online, performance, personal, policy, presenting, social media, status, theatre, twitter, web, writing
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Cool Arts Job of The Month: Connectivity Director for Woolly Mammoth Theatre
As long as we are on the topic of pushing boundaries between art and traditional concepts of ‘audience’… This job posting from Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC says it all. We’re in a brave, new, world. I love the … Continue reading
Publish Your Book on Kindle.
Here’s a great video from Kindle that explains how you, Average Joe, can publish your book on Kindle. The book will be available for download within 24 hours! Truly amazing.
Posted in Technology and the Arts, What Works?
Tagged book, ebook, how to, Kindle, publish, self-publish
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An Ethnography of RADAR L.A. and TCG 2011: Part III
TCG 2011 opens with a keynote by David Houle, author of The Shift Age. It’s 9 a.m. and I’m already missing the intimacy of the RADAR L.A. Symposia. We’re meeting in the bowels of the Biltmore Hotel in the “Biltmore … Continue reading
Posted in Deep Thoughts., TCG 2011, Technology and the Arts, What Works?
Tagged APAP, arts, arts presenters, big bird, biltmore, consulting, david houle, digital, fax machines, five c's, funeral, hollywood, hotel, ira glass, jim henson, keynote, los angeles, marketing, millenials, native, plenary, speaker, tcg 2011
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Polly Carl asks: What Can Technology Offer Theater?
Polly Carl has said that there is “nothing more deadly to a play than videotaping it.” During her tenure as Producing Artistic Director at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Carl launched Play Trailers; short films in theatrical settings that try … Continue reading
Posted in How To Be Famous, Technology and the Arts
Tagged arts, christina campanella, Minneapolis, musical, polly carl, Project, secret lives of coats, stephanie fleischmann, steppenwolf, technology, The Playwrights' Center, theater, theatre, Trailer
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Why Don’t Museums Allow Visitors to Take Photos?
Last week, I visited several museums in Houston, Texas. Both had strict policies that prohibit visitors from taking photos of the work on display. As one of the social media obsessed, I always push it. I take photos when no … Continue reading
Posted in Technology and the Arts, What's On My Mind...
Tagged art, Artists Rights Society, galleries, Houston, intellectual property, Menil Collection, museums, museums 2.0, no photos, photo, photography, policies, policy, technology
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Arts Organization Recycles Cell Phones and Laptops for Cash.
PS 122 aka Performance Space 122 in New York City? I’m a fan. I saw Adrienne Truscott there for the first time, and in that moment, I realized that she was doing what I was meant to do in this … Continue reading
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The Influence of Time and New Technologies on Arts Participation.
by Heidi K. Rettig Arts organizations and cultural policy researchers spend a great deal of time thinking about patterns of arts participation. According to several reports, audiences for the arts are shrinking and there is cause for concern about the … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, Technology and the Arts, What Works?
Tagged arts, audience, community, development, difference, education, generational, growth, museums, orchestra, participation, technology, theater, theatre, time, venue
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NEA and HUD will offer $175 million for arts and communities.
On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, the National Endowment for the Arts or NEA and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or HUD will offer a webinar to discuss $175 million in funding opportunities for the arts and … Continue reading