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…

Back in 2003, that bunch of Harvard geeks who set up an illegal get-to-know-you web site could hardly have dreamed they were changing the way we live our lives. Facebook usage continues to grow exponentially and has set off a seismic shift in communications and consumption. 

Manchester's pioneering arts…

The good news is that a big majority of museum attenders use social media. And they act on their friends' recommendations (presumably via social media?)

The bad news is that most people aren’t aware that museums are offering social media…

Richard Hadley has asked us how we use online networks within Audiences South West as a response to the latest campaign to get connected on Twitter. Here is our response -

'We've recently undergone a revision of our communications strategy to look at how we use online resources in different beneficial ways to engage and support the sector. We've developed -

1) An updated website (which should be going live this week) to act as a primary source for information…