- Australian local council starts social media surgeries
It seems the social media surgeries run by Nick Booth in Birmingham have inspired something similar on the other side of the planet. Which is bloody fantastic. - Art of Digital London – Social Media and the Arts
I enjoyed the live video stream of this panel discussion at the Amb:IT:ion Roadshow last week so while we wait for the recording to make it online here's the liveblog transcript. - Shift Happens by Mark Ball
Mark Ball, previously of Fierce Earth and the RSC and now Artistic Director of LIFT, the London International Festival of Theatre, sumarises how the revolution in digital communication / social media might affect the arts sector. - Digital Birmingham: A quick tour by a Capetonian
How does a South African see Birmingham when guided through it by Jon Hickman? Here's how. (Marlon's work in Cape Town is fascinating. Hope to investigate it more thoroughly later.) - The Superfan Strategy » The Cynical Musician
A long and detailed attack on Kevin Kelly's "1000 True Fans" theory whereby a musician (or similar) can thrive by cultivating a relatively small cohort of fanatics. It's a fairly easy one to destroy but the process is interesting and useful. (I also like the subheading "What the 'new music experts' don’t tell you".) - Towards a listing of useful spaces
Nikki is working on a directory of "useful spaces" where meetups, coworking and adhoc events can take place in Birmingham from cafes with wifi to venues that are friendly and cheap. You can submit spaces in the form on her site and add more details to the spreadsheet. All powered by Google Docs and a nice illustration of collaborative writing and crowdsourcing. - The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online
A couple of years back Andrew Dubber wrote a series of blog posts distilling everything he knew about online music. He turned it into a book and now it's a serious of videos for their forthcoming iTunes U podcasts. The best way to download them is to subscribe to one of the RSS feeds on the right in iTunes and download them all.
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Thanks for linking to the Aussie story about social media surgeries. You don't need reminding, but praps some of the readers here might, that it was Pete Ashton who first came up with the idea of one to one social media mentoring for free in a turn up and have a go sort of way and called them social media surgeries.
He's a clever man.