Google as an arts organisation

Found through a post by Tim Roberts on Admit 2.0 which was in turn, Tim tells us, passed to him by Vicki Allpress Hill from a presenter she met at the recent Tessitura Conference...aka an example of the wonderful world of people pass on great things...as Tim did I'm posing this in full.

Erik Gensler of Capacity Interactive Inc.

Google is governed by the following: openness, sharing, aggregation and capturing customer data. The more customer data you have the more you learn and the more you can improve. So inspired by Jeff Jarvis' book What Would Google Do?, I thought about the following: If Google were a performing arts organization it would...

...aggregate all critical reviews and share them to help people decide if they want to attend a performance

...survey ticket buyers after each performance and send them to a forum where they could comment on performances they've seen

...allow people to vote on future rep

...put all production designs on line for people to examine and comment upon

...have 100% flexible exchange policies

...video and share rehearsals and other behind-the-scenes footage

...promote all other arts organizations

...encourage all management and artistic leadership to blog

Is your organization doing any of these things?

Why not?

American Time Use Survey - interactive results

Now this is awesome! ABS are you watching?

The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008

Cultural Asset Mapping...and other sexy stuff!

Ok so it may sound rather er, less riveting than watching well a dreadful opera, but if you have ever, like me, needed to seek out market information about this little thing we call showbiz, or say any other types of arts, this site would of proved a god send!

Thank you to the wonderful artist who passed it my way...

CAMRA (Cultural Asset Mapping in Regional Australia) is a major Australian Research Council and industry funded project which aims to provide planners, policy-makers and local communities with the information they need to plan for a future in regional Australia that integrates the effective development of the arts and cultural industries.

The project runs for five years from 2008 to 2013 and is a partnership between seventeen organisations, including four universities.

The aims are

1. developing sustainable models of data collection and documentation that map local cultural industries using a range of methodologies specifically appropriate to regional, rural and remote settings in Australia;
2. building a GIS and relational database to store this information and allow it to be interrogated, analysed and used at local, regional and peak levels by a variety of users;
3. enabling systemised interactions between national and international experts in cultural development through this culturemap.org.au online (and offline) community as a key site for knowledge exchange and storage.

Can't wait to sign up and play