September 5, 2010 • 11:39 pm
The Goodwill Bridge was transformed this morning into a whole new world – imagine getting off the South Bank Parklands or near QUT into a bridge filled with people (some even decked out in all things French), French food, cafe style seating, artists on pianos or with chalks creating scenes on the bridge itself. It was a great way to start the morning after QBE Riverfire and a nice way to start Brisbane Festival.
A Close Knit was also there and I was kitted out with a mini knitted badge in French colours. Very chic!
After Sunsuper Riverbreakfast, I made my way through QPAC’s Cascade Court which was buzzing with activity. I don’t usually go through this area during the weekend, and if I do it’s usually during the night, so it was a nice surprise. Later on was the first Jazz on Sunday session with the Bassboy Band, Chris Poulson Trio and the Frank Zappa Big Band! Starting from $15 you can appreciate three hours of jazz music at the Spiegeltent. Even though it was raining (it was raining most of the day), people got into it and it was quiet easy to do so because of the unique venue and the jazz. I especially enjoyed Frank Zappa Big Band!
Wow, first of all – I think that it is amazing that they are playing every night except for Monday and for that I appreciate them in terms of their endurance and physical skill.
We waiting in the rain for about half an hour to get in but soon immersed ourselves into this new world of Cantina – where a doll twists and turns her limbs to make sense of her surroundings, passion and violence interchange together between two performers, audience members gasp loudly, clap, shriek out, laugh, giggle, eyes turned up to the ceiling in anticipating…the audience are very much into it.
I’m wanting to head along for another night of Cantina!
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August 19, 2010 • 12:37 am
I’ve been tempted to put out one of those Away messages for some time now because things have been getting hectic and it looks like from now until September 25 it is going to be completely and utterly BUSY!
You may know me from a few ‘hats’ that I wear so just in case – I’m involved with the Brisbane Festival as Online Marketing Coordinator and have been with them full time since June. With online activities cranking up by a notch (a very big notch) and especially with plans to speak at a few events, get the creative industries websites going (especially the Brisbane one), attend as many Brisbane Festival events as I can and while doing my duties September is going to be a big marathon. There are also a few other side projects and requests that I have to keep in mind.
I will also be cheeky and suggest that the best way to catch up is to go to a Brisbane Festival event!
PS: I sometimes get email questions related to online/digital marketing. What I will start doing is to publish them online on my Media Suarez blog as actual entries, in case anyone else is thinking of something similar.
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August 17, 2010 • 11:32 pm
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…
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