The Guardian Culture Professionals Network

The Guardian Culture Professionals Network launched this morning, having been announced a few weeks back via their Twitter account. In their own words: This is a place where professionals from all departments in arts and heritage organisations – including audience development, communications, education, fundraising, finance, logistics, management and policy – can come to share advice […]

Where are the stars of Facebook?

Just a quick one. A few years back there were stories in the papers (accurate or not) about people/bands/whatever coming to wider prominence having built an audience via their Myspace accounts (think Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Tila Tequila and so on). Meanwhile on Wikipedia there’s a whole list of YouTube personalities featuring plenty of people who have used the […]

Links for 2 November 2011

To kick things off, there are two reports that I’ve flicked through and decided need some proper attention. First up is Getting In On the Act: How Arts Groups are Creating Opportunities for Active Participation (PDF) from The James Irvine Foundation. Frankly, they had me at this diagram: I was also fascinated by The Arts Ripple Report that […]