Mooooom! I’m bored.
I few months back, I discovered this new event listing website. As a publicist, I am always looking for new places to flog my client’s shows, so I was pretty excited about this. Then, at a trade show I was […]
Being and artist and a parent
At Babz’ memorial service a couple of weeks ago, it was mentioned many, many times how, “her kids were her life.” Babz had three children: Aviv, Orpheo and Jordana, and I think, at times, their lives were a little crazy. […]
Interview: Ingrid Torrance, author of ACT!
I wish there had been something like this when I was getting started as an actor…. I met Ingrid Torrance the other day at Biz Books when Cat asked me to come down and shoot some interviews with her. Ingrid, […]
Blogging for Dummies
A long, long time ago, in September of 2008, when I was just getting started with blogging and podcasting, I wrote a post called Welcome to the Blogosphere. The topic of that post was an interview with Shane Birley and […]
The Belfry Theatre Website
Within the last year, I noticed that The Belfry Theatre (http://www.belfry.bc.ca) in Victoria had redone their website. I like it so much that I often use it as an example to show people of how a website should be done. […]
E-Newsletters, Part 2
A long, long time ago, when I first started my blog, I wrote a post on E-Newsletters. it was a post talking about the basics of e-newsletters: what they do, and what options there are out there. It remains one […]
What’s your perception of value? Pt 2
A few years back, I had an eye-opening experience around money. I had an interview to be hired by a small social-profit corporation to to marketing and PR for them for a summer. I got the interview via my network, […]
An interview with Daniel MacIvor
In December, Ruby Slippers Theatre mounts a production of Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View. One of five published in MacIvor’s Governor General’s Award-winning collection, I Still Love You, it runs December 4-13 at Performance Works on Granville Island, and December […]
Updates
Today is an aggregate post, a bunch of links and news items about what I’ve been up to and what’s coming up. First off, I have just finished a major rewrite of my Guide to Getting Started with Social Media […]
Please don’t call me a “social media expert”
I recently did an interview with Corwin Christie for the Technology in the Arts blog. As you know, in June, I launched my e-book: Getting Started With Social Media for Artists and Arts Organizations. Since then, the good little marketer […]