[aodl] Art of Digital London: Digital Salon and Surgeries Session 3

["" <caroline@metamute.net>]

Art of Digital London: Digital Salon and Surgeries Session 3: 
Covering the Basics – a guide to mastering new-to-digital opportunities

http://artofdigitallondon.ning.com/events/digital-salon-and-surgeries

What is Art of Digital London?

Art of the Digital London is a programme devised by the Arts Council England
(ACE) to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of a London RFO
(Regularly Funded Organisation) network, designed with the purpose of
developing and implementing a ‘digital strategy’. A digital strategy is an
individual project plan drawn up by each cultural organization for the 
creative
and efficient implementation of new technologies, helping them: to better
connect with their audience, to share artistic and resource material with 
their
audience, and finally, to get their audience to support the organization both
artistically and financially. To learn more about a digital strategy please
have a look at our ning site here: http://artofdigitallondon.ning.com/

As part of this programme, Openmute, in partnership with IT4Arts and
IT4Communities, have been commissioned by ACE to produce a series of 10 
monthly
‘Digital Strategy Salons and Surgeries’. These events will be made in two
parts, firstly in the morning there will be case study presentations from
selected RFOs along with a round table discussion, with our set of panelists,
focusing upon the topic given. Then in the afternoon there will be a workshop
led by Peter Law on social media, web audiences and other content tools. 
During
this time there will also be an opportunity for participants to have a direct
consultation with one of our panelists to discuss their organization’s
digital strategy in closer detail.

Panelists; Martin Black, Anne Stafford, Christian Ahlert and Simon 
Worthington.
Read more about them here: http://artofdigitallondon.ning.com/group/surgeries

Vital statistics 

Tuesday 1st December, 10am till 4.00pm 
Location: Barbican Centre (offsite Barbican Marketing offices)
4-5 Bonhill Street
London
EC2A 4BX 

NB - the Bonbill Street site is not the Barbican Centre’s main building,
rather part of a larger office block in the area between Finsbury Square and
Old Street tube. Take a look on Google maps: 

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=EC2A+4BX&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=London+EC2A+4BX,+UK&ei=ORIES-qiN6bwmwP_g7Vt&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA


The sessions are open to London’s Arts Council RFOs only, and we must also
give preference to RFOs who have not previously attended any Art of Digital
London sessions. Please RSVP via the ning site here
http://artofdigitallondon.ning.com/events/digital-salon-and-surgeries-1 ;
or email caroline@metamute.org (places limited to 35 participants) 

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Catering supplied by http://www.brochettecorner.co.uk/

This session’s topic
Covering the basics – a guide to mastering new-to-digital opportunities

December’s ‘Salon and Surgeries’ is aimed at those organisations who
would like a basic introduction to the current Internet, its tools, protocols
and networks. Whether your organisation is just starting off on its digital
journey or you feel you need to brush up on what the Web has to offer,
December’s presentations, workshops and consultancies will, by popular
demand, prioritise the basics.

As well as covering some of the more consistent fundamentals of the Internet,
like using email lists for marketing or getting a website built, we will aim 
to
lay out various approaches to more recent ‘hot topics’, such as social
media and open source, as well as demystifying what have (in previous 
sessions)
proven to be obscure terms. With the Internet continually changing, our aim is
to help cultural organisations build up an appropriate decision making process
to help them evaluate when and how to make use of opportunities on offer,
rather than feel pushed to adopt every new tool on offer.

Below are a few suggestions for topics we might cover. As even the ‘basics’
are wide-ranging, we’d appreciate hearing your preferences – and any
further suggestions – before the day, since understanding these as best we
can will help us to better help you. 

Archiving / Cloud Computing / Crowd sourcing / Customer Relationship 
Management
(‘CRM’) / Desktop software / Digital content / Download to own / Ecommerce
/ Email systems / Emerging technologies / End user development / IT process /
IT strategy and governance / IT support / Live Web streams / Low power
computing / Music and audio sales / Office network / Online visitors / Open
intellectual property / Open Source / Peer 2 Peer / Podcasting / ‘Public
service content’ / Security / Social Media  / Remote communications /
Ticketing / Video / Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 / Web stats and analytics / WiFi 

Please email Caroline Heron with preferences and further requests on
caroline@metamute.org

New addition to Salon and Surgeries
For this Salon and Surgeries we will be joined by Peter Law who will be 
leading
the afternoon workshops, from 2-4pm, working with social media tools, web
audience analytics and a variety of content packages. Peter Law is digital
consultant for the arts sector. He's one of the ifsoflo team working on 
digital
development for the literature sector, is an associate of if:book, and he 
works
regularly with the digital agency 'Somethin Else' and social games producers
'Hide&Seek'.

We would like the subject of each workshop to be chosen by the participants 
and
so we ask you to come forward with any suggestions you may have and email them
to caroline@metamute.org. Once these have been received and confirmed we will
send out further information. 

Private Surgeries
Private one-to-one surgeries with one of our panelists will be available over
the afternoon for organisations to receive specific advice about their
technology strategy, general IT issues or other questions. 

Please email caroline@metamute.org to book a 30-minute surgery. Please note
that places for these surgeries are limited and therefore are confirmed on a
first come first served basis. 

RSVP and network
http://artofdigitallondon.ning.com/events/digital-salon-and-surgeries

Project coordinator: Caroline Heron
Email: caroline@metamute.org
Telephone: 020 7377 6949

Salon and Surgeries has been supported by Arts Council England and The 
Barbican
Centre.