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Online Exhibitions: Low cost, Big results! Strategies, tools and training for doing it yourself

This major international event will take place in Brussels on the 16th of September 2010 and will offer you the opportunity to learn about the project’s findings and network with other professionals in the cultural and ICT/media sectors. Taking place at the Royal Library of Belgium, situated in the heart of Brussels, you will be only a few minutes from many of the city’s major museums and its historical centre. The second day of the conference, on September 17th, the project partners are proposing two free workshops where you may produce your first digital exhibition and learn more about museums using Web 2.0 and the use of 3D technology in virtual worlds.

Many institutions think more and more about doing a part of their public relations on the internet. More traditional forms require costly resources and are often only visible for a limited time. Moreover, many of the smaller institutions have hidden treasures in their collections, but because of financial restrictions may not be able to reach a larger audience. The “Digital Extra” project offers to sort out this problem. By creating a kind of toolkit to help create small, concise, well-presented online exhibition projects, Digital Extra has developed basic and advanced training courses that use simple methods to produce professional results. This event will provide the opportunity to learn about these training courses, techniques, strategies, and best e-practices that could be most useful when creating your online exhibitions.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Museum+Visual Arts
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 22, 2010

E-Culture-Fair 2010

The E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the fields of creative industry, research, education and media art at the Dortmunder U. It is the first step of the envisaged long-term cooperation between three partners: Virtueel Platform (NL), BAM (BE), and medienwerk.nrw (DE).

Between August 23rd and 25th, the fair will be open from 10:00 - 20:00 h at the Dortmunder U.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Creative Industries
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 20, 2010

2009 Ticketing Software Satisfaction Survey

In November 2009, Technology in the Arts launched a survey of arts and cultural organizations learn about their ticketing needs and to gauge how well current ticketing tools are meeting those needs.

Nearly 900 arts and cultural professionals completed the survey to evaluate their satisfaction with over 50 ticketing software tools.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Apr 15, 2010

Arts Management Network now active on Twitter

Arts Management Network, the worldwide network for arts and business, is now active on twitter. Follow http://twitter.com/amnweimar and you will be connected with the latest news from the international arts management scene.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Mar 27, 2010

Culturemap

Websites and internet platforms for the exchange of information and dialogue already exist on the web and have been established by different cultural organisations and projects. The European Commission thinks “the time is ripe to map the existing online spaces for debate on cultural issues and on the European project”. Little is known on how cross-border and cross-sector debate on European culture can be stimulated online in order to help the further development of a common European cultural area for those interested in European culture.

It can be expected that this virtual space and the debates taking place in it could contribute to citizens' awareness and understanding about Europe's culture, its rich cultural diversity and common cultural heritage and help to stimulate intercultural dialogue and develop mutual understanding. It is expected that it could also promote European art, artists, cultural organisations and those working in them.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor on Mar 01, 2010

Digicult.it

Arts Manager, the web platform for Russian arts managers, has made an interview with Marco Mancuso, the creator and director of the «Digicult» project, covering issues of digital culture on the internet and project management.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Literature+Media
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Dec 22, 2009

6th Annual NARPACA Ticketing Professionals Conference

NARPACA Ticketing Conference The 2010 NARPACA Ticketing Professionals Conference and Trade Show in Sydney will build on the success of five other annual events with the theme "PEOPLE: The Human Face of the Box Office". The 2008 Conference in Melbourne developed “CRM: a box office headache or a marriage made in heaven?” and the 2009 Conference in Gold Coast explored “Strike Gold: Mining Box Office Knowledge”. The 2010 Conference theme builds on the foundation provided by previous conferences and explores the importance of the human resource.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Dec 22, 2009

Myspace Music and Merlin strike comprehensive global Agreement

 LOS ANGELES–November 23, 2009–MySpace Music, the premier online music community and leading independent music agency Merlin today announced a comprehensive global agreement for Merlin’s member labels to participate in MySpace Music.

The addition of the Merlin repertoire, representing 10% of the global music market, to MySpace Music’s existing catalogue will create one of the largest independent music offerings on the web.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Music+Concert
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Nov 25, 2009

Cultural Data Project as a powerful online management tool

The Cultural Data Project (CDP) is a powerful, online management tool designed to strengthen arts and cultural organizations, advance learning and exchange throughout the cultural sector, and help funders more effectively plan for and evaluate their individual and collective grantmaking activities. The CDP allows users to track their institution’s financial and programmatic performance over time and to benchmark themselves against comparable organizations.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Nov 07, 2009

Architectural Lighting Awards: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wrightsman Galleries San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus,1943, © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Auerbach Glasow French, Architectural Lighting Design and Consulting, has won two international lighting design awards for the newly renovated and reinstalled Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Award of Excellence, among the highest honor given by that program, was awarded to the design team and presented on May 6, 2009. Additionally, the Award of Merit of the International Illumination Design Awards was awarded to the designers by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). The IESNA Award was announced on May 12, 2009, and will be presented on November 15, 2009, at the IES Annual Conference.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Museum+Visual Arts
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Oct 13, 2009