Arts and Social Media Resource Page

This is a resource page aimed at artists and arts organisation working with social media.

The resources were produced for the two-day “Understanding Social Media for the Arts” course funded by Arts Council England, and delivered at MDDA in November 2009 and January 2010 by Adrian Slatcher. The course was aimed at Local Authority arts engagement officers.

Day one

Presentation: Understanding Social Media for the Arts – Day One.

You can download the presentation Understanding Social Media for the Arts – Day One from Slideshare.

Day two

Presentation: Understanding Social Media for the Arts – Day Two

You can download the presentation Understanding Social Media for the Arts – Day Two from Slideshare.

Presentation: Some things to think about when making a video

You can download the presentation about video from Slideshare.

The Social Media Toolkit – Useful Links

Communication Tools

Blogs

• www.blogger.com
• www.wordpress.com
• www.posterous.com
• www.tumblr.com

Microblogging

• www.twitter.com

Social Networks

• www.facebook.com
• www.myspace.com
• www.bebo.com
• www.linkedin.com

Bespoke Social Networks

• www.ning.com
• www.crowdvine.com

Specialist Tools

• www.eventbrite.com
• www.surveymonkey.com
• www.tinyurl.com
• www.bit.ly
• www.doodle.com
• www.meetomatic.com
• www.meetup.com
• upcoming.yahoo.com

Collaboration Tools

File Management

• www.transferbigfiles.com
• www.soundcloud.com
• www.getdropbox.com

Office Apps

• docs.google.com
• www.basecamphq.com
• www.huddle.net
• www.google.com/calendar
• www.gmail.com

Comms Tools

• www.skype.com

Mapping Tools

• maps.google.co.uk
• www.openstreetmap.org

Sharing Content

• www.creativecommons.org.uk

Mobile

Video Blogging

• www.qik.com

Audio Blogging

• www.audioboo.fm

Rich Media

Photos

• www.flickr.com
• www.photobucket.com
• www.twitpic.com

Video

• www.youtube.com
• www.blip.tv
• www.vimeo.com
• www.archive.org

Streaming

• www.livestream.com
• www.ustream.tv

Audio

• www.odeo.com
• www.odiogo.com
• www.spotify.com
• www.last.fm

Helpful Utilities

Twitter Clients

• www.tweetdeck.com
• www.seesmic.com/desktop.html

Where to Find Out More

Digital Development for the Arts

• www.getambition.com
• getambition.ning.com
• toolkit.getambition.com

Other Useful Sites

• Creative Choices: www.creative-choices.co.uk
• Arts Professional: www.artsprofessional.co.uk
• Arts Council England: www.artscouncil.org.uk
• Arts About Manchester: www.aam.org.uk
• Arts Marketing Association: www.a-m-a.co.uk
• Commoncraft (technology explained in plain English videos): www.commoncraft.com
• OWN-IT (intellectual property): www.own-it.org
• Art of Digital: artofdigital.crowdvine.com
• MDDA: www.manchesterdda.com
• MadLab: www.madlab.org.uk

Other Useful Events and Conferences

• Shift Happens: shifthappens.ning.com
• Futureeverything: www.futureeverything.org
• Think Digital: www.thinkingdigital.co.uk
• ANDFestival: www.andfestival.org.uk

For many more resources visit the AmbITion website and AmbITion Toolkit Website.

Further Useful resources will be placed here when they become available.