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#Auddev Chat 9/25/14 w/Jim McCarthy

Posted On September 25, 2014 By Shoshana

Customer Service for Building Audiences! Jim McCarthy (@goldstarjim), CEO of Goldstar has been writing blog posts for their new blog resource Selling Out.  I was intrigued by a recent posting called The Easy Math of Good Service and agree with him that stellar customer service is more cost effective for audience building than the high… 

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She lived with passion, she lived authentically, she lived with Twitter

Posted On April 1, 2014 By Shoshana

Copyright RachDminor I had a good Twitter friend pass away last week.  It was quite sudden and a shock to our music Twitter community.  @RachDminor was a pianist, a foodie, an animal and arts lover, and a creative thinker.  Her tweets were mostly conversational with fun pictures and links to interesting articles.  She had a… 

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#Auddev chat 12/12 at 12: Creating Fans!

Posted On December 13, 2013 By Shoshana

Happy Friday to you! We made it! Yesterday we had the last #auddev chat for the year. It was a good conversation about how to create fans. We first defined what a “fan” is and then chatted about how we can get more people to become a fan. The main point I would like to… 

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#Auddev chat, June 28, 2013 at Noon ET – Twtr Symphony

Posted On July 1, 2013 By Shoshana

Storify by Shoshana Fanizza Fri, Jun 28 2013 15:20:40 #Auddev chat, June 28, 2013 at Noon ET – Twtr Symphony A chat with Chip Michael, Artistic Director of the Twtr Symphony – an online symphony comprised of musicians from all over the world that connected on Twitter. This is one good example of how you… 

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ADS Events for arts audience development!

Posted On February 12, 2013 By Shoshana

I am very excited to tell you that our 2013 event calendar is now bursting with new opportunities to learn about and discuss audience development methods and ideas.  Here is what we have planned for this year: A monthly #auddev chat on twitter with a different co-host and topic each time.  These are free and… 

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Happy New Year for arts audience development

Posted On January 3, 2013 By Shoshana

This is a quick post to ring in the new year.  I am busily working on plans for 2013, and I hope to have some announcements by the end of next week.  I can mention that I am working on: Quarterly Webinars Monthly #Auddev chats Podcast Projects Video Sessions and Slidecasts More audience development books… 

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Audience Development Specialists News!

Posted On October 26, 2012 By Shoshana

I have a great deal of new adventures to share with you.  Next week I will be back to regular blogging, but I thought I would take a moment to update you. I signed up for Soundcloud. I have not added that many tracks yet, but this will be the future location for my Audience… 

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Audience Development for the Arts Songs!

Posted On October 12, 2012 By Shoshana

It’s Friday!  Yesterday as you know, we had an #auddev chat.  During the chat, one of our chatters, Becky Peters a.k.a. @bpeters99 tweeted a song title that stuck in my head: Love the One You’re With by Crosby, Stills and Nash.  Of course this was in reference to loving your current audience. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IVuN1N6-Y] It… 

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#Auddev chat, Thursday, October 11 at Noon ET on Twitter for arts audience development

Posted On October 8, 2012 By Shoshana

I wanted to make sure you were all invited to the #auddev chat we will be having this Thursday: Audiences’ Preferred Connections Co-host Cindy Marie Jenkins, L.A.’s own Storyteller/Outreach Nerd, and I will be conducting a chat about audiences and how they prefer to connect with us. So dig up your latest surveys and let’s… 

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My apologies to my email subscribers – #Auddev chat 9/27, Noon ET – Arts, Change & Audiences

Posted On September 27, 2012 By Shoshana

I was using the Storify export function, and it wigged out. I apologize for the repeated bogus posts. Here is the actual chat transcript I was attempting to post: [View the story “#Auddev chat, 9/27, Noon ET – Arts, Change & Audiences” on Storify] Cheers to happy and loyal audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Audience Development… 

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