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Opera

December 8th, 2009 | Comments are closed

I’m currently taking part in Birmingham Opera’s production of Othello as part of the volunteer singing chorus and offered them an hour or so of my time to run through some things they could do with their Internet presence. So I was rather surprised to see my name appear twice in the program – once [...]

Category: Reports | Tags: , |

The Arts Council West Midlands DCD fund – some notes

October 29th, 2009 | 4 comments

Today I had a meeting with Anna Douglas and Steve Manthorp at the Arts Council’s Birmingham offices to discussed the Digital Content Development (DCD) fund. This was announced in December 2008 and since then I’ve been increasingly asked by arts organisations for advice on formulating their applications. Since this has become a significant part of [...]

Category: ASH-10, Explanations | Tags: , , |

Getting the naysayers on side is the answer. How is the question.

June 12th, 2008 | 5 comments

If there’s an overriding aim to what I’m doing it’s to convince people that digital forms of communication are as important as what we might call traditional ones. That communities and relationships that are formed online are as important as those formed in the real world. In fact I’d go further and say terms like [...]

Category: Essays | Tags: , , , , , |