This will be a quick one. I have been noticing more lately the “click like to help us get to 100 fans” or “4 more until 300 Twitter followers.” In one way, it is good to get the request out there for more people to be interested in your Facebook fan page or Twitter feed,…
I’m working on a juicy blog for the future. In the meantime, I have been thinking about how challenging it is to get people to talk about audience development, yet everyone seems to have questions. So why is the arts community as a group shying away from major audience development discussion? Here are my thoughts:…
Today I have been thinking about the current situation for the arts. There have been many funding cuts and many organizations that are sinking or have gone under. However, I have also seen the flip-side. There are organizations that are thriving in this economy. I hear about their sold out shows, their successful fundraisers. So…
It’s Friday, and it’s time to announce the winners for all the categories of The 2009 Audience Development Specialists Tweets Awards! Most Interesting Venues The nominees are: Keeping artists in the Loop Creative Showcase | Pop-Up Art program turns vacant buildings into galleries http://bit.ly/4DVbs8 The Chicago Loop Alliance plays matchmaker with artists and landlords to…
My goodness. I spent hours going through my tweets and attempting to narrow each category down. There were so many fabulous audience development tweets, this was not an easy task. However, I was able to narrow to the best of my ability. I wanted to use this blog as a place where you could refer…
Best Use of Technology and Social Media 2009. Here are the nominees one more time: RT @atlantasymphony We’re LIVE! Wynton Marsalis & Ken Meltzer discuss the ‘marriage of jazz and classical music’. http://is.gd/4YkJw Nexto to Normal’ uses Twitter to build audiences http://bit.ly/2Sfq0W The San Francisco Opera recently sought to engage a younger audience by offering…
So, the Tweeples Choice Awards didn’t work out so well. I only had two votes on last weeks polls, not worth it. For the rest of the categories, I’m simply going to pick the Audience Development Specialists Awards since we are all busy people. The last two categories were: Best Use of Mainstream 2009 ‘Star…
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