The Loves and Limits of Facebook, Pt 1
It’s been a while since I wrote a post on Facebook. Simon and I have been working with one of our clients lately, and that work has lead to much research on the limitations of what Facebook can do. We […]
Mid-week Tim-… er, Tid-Bits
I have a couple of things to share with you today, mid-week. No real theme, just some things that have come across my desk that I thought were worthy of sharing. So, hopefully you get something out of them… 1. […]
Demistifying Social Media: new date added!
You can argue with me on this one, but I think, maybe, the two sweetest words in the English language are: sold out. Simon Ogden and I got asked to do a workshop on using social media as a tool […]
Demystifying Social Media: A Workshop
I belong to a group of people that all to marketing for Arts Organizations, here in Vancouver. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know by now that we are suffering from loss of media coverage of […]
State of the Union: Social Networking
Okay, so I’m no Guy Kawasaki. I’m not even close to Seth Godin. But some interesting things have happened over the last few weeks, and I wanted to share them with you. First off, Twitter just celebrated its third birthday. […]
How Businesses are Using New Media for Publicity
The mainstream media is shrinking. We’ve established that, and whether it’s temporary or permanent, only time will tell. In the mean time, we still need to get people through the door. Here are three examples of what some companies are […]
Are we losing the mainstream media? Part 2
A couple of weeks ago, I put up a post that outlined cuts to the local arts coverage. It’s happening all over again. This week, Jerry Wasserman, a local theatre critic that writes for Vancouver’s Province newspaper, had this on […]
Getting them in the gut, or yet ANOTHER post about Rent
I took a small business class at BCIT in September of 2007. It was great, because it allowed me the time and space to finally write that business plan I’d been putting off for the last six years or so […]
Building an Audience for the Future
In December, I wrote a blog post about a show I went to see that was well attended, but the median age of those present was in the 40-50 range. A big issue for a lot of theatre companies right […]
Surviving The Culture Change
This was recently forwarded to me by Mirjana Galovich, who is the director of marketing and sales for the Vancouver Museum. It is US arts philanthropy expert Diane Ragsdale’s keynote address on the subject “Surviving the Culture Change,” which she […]