I have six Twitter accounts that are in active use – my personal account, a brand account for one of my sites, an account for an organisation that I am currently working for, an industry association account, my personal ‘idea collection’ account and an experimental account looking into the question of why people love festivals. On top of this, I have made another at least four more accounts but they were temporary (ie for a client for a short amount of time) or they ended up not being used at all.
Semi-personal/professional account: mainly used for conversations and to distribute industry information relevant to me as an individual.
Account for an organisation I am working for: Online marketing and engagement.
Industry association account: Online marketing and engagement, and distributing relevant info in relation to the association.
Brand account for one of my sites: mainly used to distribute specific industry information that is specific to the website and audience, some level of conversation.
Personal idea-collection: I follow numerous organisational and brand accounts with more of a global focus. It’s so easy to get caught up with local (ie Brisbane specific) info so I use this to follow accounts that interest me – from scottish opera to the big media outlets from around the world.
Experimental account: For some reason, decided that it was a good idea to follow every single festival account that I can find and retweet out reasons why people love festivals.
Another thing that I like are hashtags, not the really useless ones (ps: they’re fun to read though), but the ones that are being used to connect active discussions and real-time tweets around certain events. I find myself looking into what’s happening in the UK, but it’s a bit of a challenge for US live tweets. Helpful for industry related info and keeping track of events real-time. Not helpful of it’s #masterchef. I think that there should be a function to ‘follow’ hashtags instead of following accounts…
Filed under: Online, Personal
January 1, 2009 • 10:39 am
I was sleeping on a sofa bed at a hotel last night after spending New Year’s Eve with the family when scenarios was running through my mind about what 2009 will bring. Particularly for the digital and creative industries.
A bit of a back story…
Leafing through the Sunday Mail, every two pages seemed to mention about the global financial crisis*.
Thinking about the issue of money…in November I attended an excellent Arts Business workshop organised by Transit Lounge. One of the facilitators mentioned that the Arts Law Centre of Queensland is operating with only one staff member (tax advisors and lawyers don’t count as they are volunteers) and it was not until December when I received an email from them that the Centre had to be shut off due to the lack of funding. I found it unbelievable that something like this Centre, that is needed by those in the arts, at a good CBD location (in the Metro Arts building) had to be shut down. I have used their weekly sessions more than a few times and every single person that I have encountered that are in the arts would recommend their law and tax advice.
I was feeling inquisitive that night – what will it be like in 2009 and 2010, at least? More importantly though, crisis or not, what actions can be taken to help this industry in the new year?
- Network
- Support micro, small and medium-sized organisations.
- Non-profit organisations need help too.
- For the students (coming soon)
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Filed under: Australia, Brisbane, Entrepreneurship, Online, Public Interest
December 3, 2008 • 2:06 pm
…the next biggest thing was November 7 + 8 which was the 2high Festival. Otherwise, today was a very significant day for me and it wasn’t event planned. In fact, I have never even realised it until only a few minutes ago when I actually had time to sit down (in the midst of hospital visits and summer naps) and think about today.
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Filed under: Agency, Australia, Australian Interactive Media Industry Association, Brisbane, Events, Online, Retail, Technology
The QUT Creative Industries Precinct will be holding a seminar for World Intellectual Property Day tomorrow. Really looking forward to this!
What is really irking me at the moment is that I can’t seem to find information about the event on the Internet! it was available on the QUT ‘What’s Happening’ page but it seems as if all April event information has disappeared!
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