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Designing social media policy for government: Eight essential elements
Government agencies are increasingly looking to leverage social media to improve the quality of government services and enable greater citizen engagement. Publicly available social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, are providing governments with attractive options for meeting these new objectives. more >
Supporting Australia's Live Music Industry: suggested principles for best practice 2010
The document looks at issues to do with live performance which are affected by regulation and highlights a number of best practice principles which could be considered by government agencies in their own regulatory environments. more >
Making culture accessible
Published by the Council of Europe, the study asserts that the enjoyment and fulfilment of the right to participate in culture requires an enabling environment and a legal framework that offers a solid basis for the protection of rights related to cultural actions. more >
Museum International Nº 244: What Can Art Still Do?
MUSEUM International, published by UNESCO since 1948, is a major forum for the exchange of scientific and technical information concerning museums and cultural heritage at an international level. more >
UNESCO World Report 2: Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue
At the crossroads of intellectual, scientific and political thinking, this 2nd UNESCO World Report aims to take stock of all that is being said, thought and done in the name of cultural diversity, and tease out the necessary conditions for diversity to become an asset and not a threat, a source of renewal for public policies in service to development, social cohesion and peace. more >
Council conclusions on the contribution of culture to local and regional development
At the 3013th EDUCATION, YOUTH AND CULTURE meeting of the Council Meeting held in Brussels, 10 May 2010 the council adopted a number of conclusions supporting the contribution of culture to local and regional development. more >
Arts Audiences' publishes reports from the Build your Audience Scheme and the New Media Mentoring Scheme
Arts Audiences' New Media Mentoring Scheme continues to progress well, with the publication of three reports from the recipients of the scheme. The reports may be of interest to arts organisations seeking to capitalise on digital media to connect with and build their audiences. more >
Culture Programme 2007-2013 - Programme Guide
The Guide, focusing on most parts of the Culture Programme, contains all the essential conditions to apply for funding. It introduces a fixed Calendar 2008-2013 until 2013 and provides cultural operators with the whole set of funding opportunities under this Programme until 2013. more >
Funding Culture, Managing the Risk
The UNESCO symposium held on 16-17 April brought together leading experts in development, cultural financing, decision makers and cultural entrepreneurs for a dynamic two days of discussion on the challenges and opportunities of investing in culture in developed and developing countries. more >
Narratives of community: museums and ethnicity
This groundbreaking book brings together a collection of essays on the revolution taking place in museums around the world as they look anew at the ways communities are represented. more >
Arts Audiences publishes a guide to developing a brief for a website: a mentoring report from TBG&S
Considering a new website? Want to optimise the outcome, and keep costs as low as possible? Under Arts Audiences’ New Media Mentoring Scheme, Aoife Flynn of asquared mentored Rayne Booth of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios as she prepared a brief for the organisation’s new website. more >
Evaluating your digital strategy: a mentoring report from the Youth Council
There’s no doubt about it, digital and social media hold great potential for those looking to increase the engagement with their audiences. For those with little experience of the area, the promise is great, and yet without significant experience in the area, it can be difficult to envisage what is involved in building momentum around a blog, or a social media campaign, using Facebook or Twitter. more >
Priority sector report: Creative and Cultural Industries
The European Cluster Observatory presents the 2nd in a series of priority sector reports, which analysing clusters in sectors of especial importance to the future of the European economy. This report covers Creative and Cultural Industries. The study details the industries’ status in 250 regions and shows where the industries’ 6.5 million employees are clustered. more >
What’s the right relationship between philanthropy and government?
It’s practically a given these days that philanthropy and government ought to work together. But what should the relationship look like? How can grantmakers collaborate formally or informally with partners in government to advance the common good? And does everyone think this is such a good idea? more >
Plugged in: remote Australian Indigenous youth and digital culture
Even in the most remote Indigenous communities, global influences pervade everyday life and new forms of media and communications are reshaping youth culture. more >
A guide to marketing your production on tour
The first report from the Arts Audiences' Build Your Audience scheme is available online. This report, A guide to marketing your production on tour, has been produced by Coisceim Dance Theatre with Heather Maitland. more >
White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue “Living together as equals in dignity”
The White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue – “Living together as equals in dignity”, responds to an increasing demand to clarify how intercultural dialogue can enhance diversity while sustaining social cohesion. more >
Cultural Policy Review of Books
The last issue of the International Journal on Cultural Policy gathers some important international researchers of the cultural policy field. more >
Dossier on cultural events
Culture Europe International, the online magazine on cultural practices and policies in Europe published by France's Institute of European Studies, dedicates its spring issue 2010 to the cultural “events” playing increasingly important role in public policy strategies. more >
Dutch Mountains Magazine
SICA, the Dutch Centre for International Cultural Activities, publishes the first issue of the Dutch Mountains magazine. It focuses on the cultural interaction between the Netherlands and the rest of the world. more >
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