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…
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…
The poll for Most Interesting New Venues of 2009 has closed. We had 38 votes. Here are the twitter poll results: http://twtpoll.com/dj54ku The Chicago Loop Alliance fills vacant spaces with art. [ 66% (25 votes) ] The Chiara String Quartet performs in bars. [ 5% (2 votes) ] Chicago Opera Theater’s Pop-Up Opera. [ 29%…
I missed posting my Thanksgiving YouTube picks this year, but better late than never. Being thankful and giving thanks to your patrons, donors, sponsors, subscribers, volunteers is a great way to continue building relationships. I found some fun ways that arts organizations used YouTube to thank their supporters. Enjoy! Anaheim Ballet: We’re Thankful! (One Year)…
This morning I ran across an article about a musician that didn’t quite fit into the classical music world and instead developed his career as a jazz/rock violinist. Here is the article if you want to see what inspired my thoughts this morning: “Fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty electrifies.” The article had me once again thinking…
Collaboration for the arts! I have been seeing more interesting collaborations in our arts world, so I thought I would do a quick top 10 list for ways to collaborate in the arts! Programming collaborations – pretty self explanatory, but I challenge you to come up with new mixtures. Marketing collaborations – this could mean…
I can’t say enough about collaboration. It is not only one of the 4 C’s of audience development, but something that definitely brings new hopes, opportunities, and direction for an artist or arts organization.The last few days I have been writing articles about collaborations. One was about an art gallery that teamed up with a…
Yesterday I wrote an article about our local production of The Secret Garden. The Parlando School for the Arts was savvy enough to use all 4 C’s in order to sell out the majority of their shows (on their way to a complete sell out). Click here for all the details. If you don’t know…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDTxpxjSvM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b] Have a great weekend everyone! Until next time, may your audiences be happy and loyal ones, and if they are not, feel free to contact me! ~Shoshana~ Shoshana Fanizza is the founder of Audience Development Specialists. Her mission is to introduce artists and arts organizations to their existing and potential audiences and to help…
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