1. Introduction Your business model sits within a set of way of thinking about how your organisation operates, from your longer-term vision through to the day-to-day implementation of activities. Osterwalder and Pigneur (2010) describe the business model as a ‘framework or logic used to create social and economic value’. You might can visualise these various … Read more
Love it or hate it, social media has the power to massively raise the profiles of heritage organisations. Just one, well timed meme can catapult you into the media spotlight resulting in articles in the press and an influx of followers. So which heritage organisations have done this well and what can we learn from … Read more
The first blog by Ginny Russell, Digital Communications Producer and Coordinator at We The Curious as part of her Fellowship at AMA Digital Lab.
The second blog by Francesca Ramsay, Assistant Manager at Byard Art as part of her Fellowship at AMA Digital Lab.
Super Slow Way shares its experience of co-developing the Faculty of Social Arts Practice and the lessons it has learnt along the way.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about how business takes account of its economic, social and environmental impacts in the way it operates. These guidelines explain the background to CSR, what it means in practice and how arts organisations can use its frameworks to initiate and develop partnerships with business.
This publication from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts features 10 case studies that show the role arts can play in helping to build inclusive, cohesive groups and address health and social concerns.
In this short article Jim Rosenberg, National Arts Strategies (USA), promotes customer-centred strategies as the way forward for arts organisations. He argues that an ‘ingrained’ fear of ‘pandering’ to customers could be holding arts organisations back and stresses that what audiences today seek is not necessarily very far from what many arts organisations strive to … Read more
In 2012 St Helens Council’s Arts Service were awarded funding from Arts Council England to develop a cultural connections programme. Other Ways of Telling explored how the arts can improve the lives of people who are accessing or who are at risk of needing to access Adult Social Care and Health Services. The programme was … Read more
Over the last few years, the term SoLoMo, short for ‘Social Local Mobile’, is being used more and more. At its heart is an important concept that will become increasingly important to arts organisations. Having an effective social local mobile strategy simply means understanding the changing customer behaviours that have been brought about by smartphones … Read more