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Industry Compass 2011: Global Issues, Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities Impacting the World of Festivals and Events
The most comprehensive global analysis of festivals and events in 2011, featuring 22 contributors from 13 countries

New Blog Post from The Experience Business about audience insight and a pioneering new qualitative research training programme

http://http://www.theexperiencebusiness.co.uk/blog/entry/from-lip-service-to-love-affair-changing-your-relationship-with-audience-data/

I recently attended and spoke at the first annual Stage Management Association conference. Anyone who follows my content stream may have seen the posts. I won't bore you with here but available on request! Unsurprisingly I was talking about social technologies and how they can be used to make the work place more effective, productive and efficient. The work place being the rehearsal room and theatrical production process for the stagemanagement department. My career has been behind the…

To our conference in Førde, Norway, 5 July we have chosen the following theme: In with the audience – out with prejudice. The conference is organised as a collaboration between Førde Traditional and World Music Festival and…

Do you have a story to tell? Colleagues at the European Commission are planning a conference focusing on audience development in October 2012.  They are looking for case studies to showcase.  

Here's what they say:

The Commission is organising a conference on audience development in autumn 2012 and is looking for good examples from projects supported by the Culture and Media…