The Great British Art Debate conference is happening on Saturday 3 December 2011, and you will be able to watch it all online, live from Tate Britain. Tune in to follow the discussion and add your voice to the Q&A at the end of the conference.

Tweet @gbartdebate and using #gbad11

And if you want to watch some videos about people’s opinions on British art to get you thinking there’s a selection online, recorded across the UK. Here’s one (below) with Mr Simon Munnery, who I once saw doing a comedy gig in a pub in South East London. He’s a funny man, so he is.

The Great British Art Debate is a partnership between Tate Britain, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and Museums Sheffield, supported by The National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, and by the MLA’s Renaissance programme.

We’ve gone all glitzy and glamorous and partnered up with Britain’s Number One Theatre Website Whatsonstage.com to sponsor the 2012 WhatsonStage.com Awards. The awards are completely voted for by the public with more than 46,000 theatregoers voting each year.

The 12th annual Whatsonstage.com Awards season kicks off with an exclusive Launch Party at Café De Paris on Friday 2 December and culminates with a star-studded Awards Ceremony and Concert at the West End’s 1100-seat Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday 19 February. The Awards gala concert will be streamed live so people can tune in from all over the world.

Watch this space for more news and follow @whatsonstage on twitter and via the hashtag #wosawards.

Today (14th Oct 2011) we’re starstruck and streaming live at 18:30 UK time, from bfi Southbank London as part of London Film Festival.

Using the YouTube Live streaming platform, via the bfi YouTube channel, we’ll be filming and streaming a live Q & A with the chaps behind 50/50: Seth Rogen (producer/actor) and Will Reiser (writer). It’s a unique on stage interview.

YouTube users can post questions by leaving comments or uploading video, and there’ll be voting to see who’s questions get asked. Totally interactive! If you want to join in you can vote on questions or submit your own until 17:00 on Friday 14 October. Just visit the BFI YouTube channel.

More news from the bfi here.

So I’m on a panel at Online Video Strategies 2011 on 19th October, which is part of the Streaming Media Europe conference, an annual gathering of online video folks which I’ve been going to since way back when (too long)?!

The session I’m speaking at is called “Building a Successful Online Video Strategy” which is a big subject to pack into 45 mins, but hopefully we’ll be able to get some useful information across to whoever comes along.

Steffan Aquarone, “Independent Web Video Strategist”, is chairing the panel. He is an experienced and esteemed web video guru and also has very nice hair. You can see his linked in profile here, follow him on twitter – @Steffanaquarone – and he does training for marketers via Econsultancy web video training.

My fellow panelists are Simon Crofts, Creative Director, ST16, Jon Quirk, New Car Editor, AutoTrader and Thomas Owadenko, CEO, Videoagency. I haven’t met any of them yet, but I’m sure they’re very nice and I’m looking forward to hearing what they have to say about all this strategy business.

To my mind, the word ‘strategy’ is much overused these days, when really it’s quite simply about knowing what you want to achieve, what actions you might take to get there, and how to tell if you are meeting objectives, making progress and generally doing well and heading in the right direction.

One’s strategy will of course depend on what one wants to achieve, so there isn’t a universal code. One small strategy may be part of a larger set of organisational objectives. That said, there are some useful things to think about and tricks you can use if your strategy is about getting content out there, getting sales leads, creating an online community or whatever.

Some key things to think about that may affect the success of your communications or campaign are:

• Quality of content – as we all should know by now, you can’t make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear
• Frequency – keep it fresh, get people to subscribe, have regular slots
• Authenticity – don’t be shy, don’t be a bland purveyor of platitudes, let your personality out
• Dialogue – talk, listen, comment, chat, listen more, respond
• Talent – if you haven’t got any, hire some in!
• Being realistic – vision versus budget
• Which platform – do you need to be on more than just one? Is it about seeding to multiple platforms or managing one well so that you can drive people to it?
• Connected Tv and iDevices – unless you have the budget understand that you probably can’t optimise for these things – as yet – so understand where and how your audience will view your content

More on all this soon when I report back from Online Video Strategies 2011
Follow @streamingeurope for updates. #SMEU11

We’re excited to be working with the Arts Council and BBC Academy, who have joined forces on a project called Digital Capacity for the Arts, which offers training and guidance for arts organisations around creating and distributing content and reaching audiences via mobile, IPTV and online platforms.

There are a series of practical seminars and workshops until August 2012 and a growing base of online resources, including webcasts, short films, presentations and podcasts.

You can watch all the seminar sessions from the Seminar on Audio and Audiovisual Content online here:
http://digitalcapacity.artscouncil.org.uk/videos-seminar-2/ plus a ‘Seminar in 200 seconds’ highlights video that the Kinura crew edited in lightning time.

The next event is in London in October, and it’s all about Creative Use of Archives

The twitter hashtag is #digicaparts if you want to keep up to date.

If you love us, or just like us, please vote for us and you will be rewarded in some kind of cosmic way I’m sure. Or maybe we’ll buy you a pint. Is that bribery? No surely not. Just spreading the love.

Vote now before it’s too late!

btw we are in the ‘Streaming Services Provider’ category. Because that’s what we do. :)

On September 9th, 2011, Ogilvy are hosting Lab Day Live and Kinura are streaming acts from all 3 music stages.

Lab Day Live is a day of music featuring panels and talks from a range of key figures from across the music industry. From 1pm three stages will be in operation, hosting some top British music acts. Check out the line up and save the date.

Follow #labdaylive for updates and tune in to http://londonlab.ogilvyeurope.com/ on 9th September for some musical webcastery. Should be fun!

More info here: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/1144

Kinura will be streaming Tedx York live from 11:00am – 7:00pm UK time.

The event is being organised by @marcusromer – follow him, us (@kinura) and @pilottheatre to keep yourself updated about this event.

 
Kinura have won a contract to produce and stream loads of fantastic content from three major digital events happening this summer in Gateshead.

Thinking Digital, DIBI and Game Horizon, all run by Codeworks, are renowned iconic gatherings of digital innovators, with world-class speakers, inspirational talks and educational workshops.

The Kinura team will be making short films, capturing interviews and voxpops, and streaming all the conference presentations live or on-demand. In 2010 we vision-mixed and streamed ThinkingDigital and all the presentations are available to view, so if you want a taster you can watch all the #TDC10 videos here. Or you can watch the fab @documentally‘s talk right here on this blog:

Christian Payne speaking at #TDC10 from Herb Kim on Vimeo.

Get the dates in your diary for these great events and follow us and them on twitter for updates on webcasts and more!

Thinking Digital 24th, 25th, 26th May 2011 – @thinkingdigital #TDC11
DIBI 7th & 8th June 2011 – @dibiconf
Game Horizon 28th & 29th June 2011 – @gamehorizon

Social Media Week 2011, begins this Monday 7th February, in nine cities around the world. New York, London, São Paulo, Toronto, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, Istanbul, and Hong Kong.

The London events are being run by our fantastic friends at Chinwag who have mustered up almost a hundred events and been blown away by the diversity and passion of organisations and individuals getting involved. Check out the full progamme of events here.

And follow @smwlondon if you aren’t already.

Read more about all the events and organisations participating  in this blog post: Social Media Week Explodes