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Lost #auddev chat from 3/18: Theatre, Social Media & Audience Development

Posted On June 15, 2011 By Shoshana

On Friday, March 18th, we had a guest host for an #auddev Twitter chat, Praxis Theatre based in Toronto, Canada.  They decided to do a chat about social media and audience development for Canadian theatres and invite the world to join them.  I had created a transcript for this event, but found out today that… 

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Audience Development, Peter Gabriel and Orchestras

Posted On June 14, 2011 By Shoshana

Last night I went to see one of my favorite artists, Peter Gabriel.  He is right up there with the Beatles, Sting/The Police, and all my favorite classical music composers.  For this concert tour, Peter Gabriel was being backed by his own orchestra, the New Blood orchestra.  He chose particular songs to have arranged (brilliantly,… 

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Audience Development and Social/Digital Media – #auddev chat transcript from June 3, Noon ET

Posted On June 3, 2011 By Shoshana

Today we had an #auddev chat with David Weuste from Rosebrook Classical.  As you may have heard, ADS and Rosebrook Classical are partnering to bring you Audience Development Media.  We decided to have this #auddev chat to get the conversation started on how to use social/digital media effectively to build your audience. The following is… 

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Announcing Audience Development Media – ADS and Rosebrook Classical partner

Posted On June 1, 2011 By Shoshana

After several conversations with David Weuste of Rosebrook Classical and seeing the work that we both have accomplished, we realized that a partnership would be a fantastic addition for both of us. Rosebrook Classical offers services that support artists and arts organizations in setting up anything and everything involved in social and digital media.  David… 

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Arts Advocacy Day! Do it for Mozart! Twitter and Facebook Instructions…

Posted On January 27, 2011 By Shoshana

It’s time to take action!  I ask you to lend your voice by writing a letter and then posting on Twitter and Facebook that you took action.  Let’s make some noise today!  I am dedicating this arts advocacy day to Mozart.  In order to find our next Mozarts in this world, we need to support… 

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Audience development and Twitter tools – Friend or Follow?

Posted On January 8, 2011 By Shoshana

I found a new Twitter tool this week I wanted to share with everyone. It is called FriendorFollow.  This little Twitter app makes it easy to categorize your twitter people into three categories: 1. Who you Follow – this section shows you who you follow that is not following you. 2. Who is your Fan… 

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I love classical music because – audience development for the arts and passion

Posted On December 13, 2010 By Shoshana

A few weeks ago, I asked my Twitter followers to post: RT & fill in the blank. I love classical music because ___. #classicalmusic The reason I asked is because I felt it would be good to share the reasons and the passions as to why we listen to classical music.  To be quite honest,… 

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Audience development for the arts – Twitter and hashtags

Posted On December 10, 2010 By Shoshana

This week I had my first #auddev chat, which opened me further to the power of Twitter for audience development.  Twitter has an amazing little feature called the hashtag.  A hashtag allows tweeters to categorize a tweet subject.  The hashtag creates a sub-stream on Twitter that you can follow.    You can use the hashtag… 

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Audience development and classical music chat via #auddev

Posted On December 7, 2010 By Shoshana

Yesterday I had my first official #auddev chat on Twitter. Although it came spontaneously, arising from the moment instead of being a planned event, we had a handful of tweeters join in.  The topic for the chat was #classicalmusic and audiences. I have been seeing this conversation come to the forefront of articles lately.  Many… 

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Audience development and marketing messages, a lesson from Twitter

Posted On October 27, 2010 By Shoshana

Lately I have been seeing many marketing messages that are rather lengthy and very verbose.  With so many marketing messages flying at us, don’t you think it would be better to be descriptive in as few words as possible?  You can always give an option to go to a web page for more information. Let’s… 

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