Is a bit passé to blog these days? Maybe, but it does give me a place to share some ideas.
Featured posts
A few of my better thoughts:
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As Facebook and Instagram circle the drain, what will arts marketers do next?
Meta’s content changes may prompt an exodus from Facebook, Instagram and Threads. If so, how will arts brands accommodate that?
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10 ways to improve the situation for arts marketers
Arts marketers in Australia are undervalued, underpaid and overwhelmed. To improve arts marketing change at every level of the arts is needed: from arts marketers themselves, from their managers and from arts leadership.
Other blog posts
A few other thougths that I’ve had lately:
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Reflecting on the launch of the TAROCH Coalition
The TAROCH Coalition – a community of cultural heritage organisastions adovacting for a UNESCO Recommendation of access to cultural heritage in the Public Domain – has been launched.
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The Content Credentials pin looks like the Creative Commons icon
Adobe is pushing for content transparency but the Content CredentialsA content label and verification process created by Adobe for disclosing information about content. Learn more → pin is too similar to the Creative Commons icon if you ask me.
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Areas of focus for Wikimedia Australia going forward
Growing free knowledge, striving for knowledge equity, improving governance, and celebrating the community should all be part of the organisation’s future in my opinion.
Weekly reading lists
Things I have been reading each week:
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(Un)read in the ledger: Monday 6–Sunday 12 January 2025
So much of the media cycle this week was dominated by US Presidential politics and how the technology and media companies are responding to Trump’s second term. Most significantly, Meta announced changes to fact-checking and hate speech that will make its platforms more problematic.
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(Un)read in the ledger: Monday 30 December 2024–Sunday 05 January 2025
With Trump’s second administration, Musk’s political meddling and the US Court of Appeals hampering net neutrality an open internet is further out of reach.
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(Un)read in the ledger: Monday 11–Sunday 17 November 2024
Recruitment and retention of key roles in the arts is at crisis point, academics call to keep online video games out of the proposed social media ban for young people and the ATOM H1 device brings content marking to any digital camera.