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.

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

http://videos.thinkingdigital.co.uk/

We’ve been working with PRWeek and BrandRepublic to produce a virtual conference of the very best bits of two conferences on PR and social media. Check it now at Socialmediastrategy.tv

Video and slides from presentations by speakers from facebook, Vodafone, Eurostar and more big names are all online for free viewing now. The presentations cover issues such as crisis management, reputation management, the role of content, measurement tactics etc. Hopefully lots of good stuff for your viewing pleasure!

The hastag was #prdigital if you want to post any comments.

Kinura filmed these events and built the site with all it’s rich media elements and social media widgets. Hope you like it. :)

I imagine there’s going to be plenty of comprehensive follow ups after ThinkingDigital2010 last week. There’s a good post already here from Michael J Bell (aka digitaljoseph).

I was trying to think how I felt about the conference, still buzzing from it over the weekend, and decided that ‘outrageously uplifting’ was a fair summation. It’s hard to convey the cool atmosphere of the Livecast lounge where I hung out with fellow digerati and even got a free shoulder rub!

You’ll be able to watch videos from the event soon. And the twitter comments are worth a butcher’s if you weren’t there – follow #TDC10.  Also – I’ve uploaded some photos from TDC10 on flickr.

Here’s a few things I learned/realised at TDC10:

I need to play more

You don’t need vast sums of money to create something worthwhile

I have a deep voice, and this is potentially a good thing in terms of ‘sound business’ and self-assertion

Visualising data in new ways is revealing, energising and helpful to indviduals and orgs

CAPTCHAs are helping to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows – for FREE

If you get creative (and get off your a**) you can create top notch media using cheap(-ish) kit and ‘amplify’ your message fantastically exponentially with social media

The trivial/inexpensive can have massive power in terms of recognition and customer loyalty

If we don’t have stories life becomes inauthentic

Diamond Shreddies are a genius invention

Also – a few book tips from the speakers:

Pull
Bursts
Predictably Irrational
Obliquity
Nudge

So now to follow up on all the business cards I gathered.

And will post as soon as videos go online.

Our friends at muchosmedia have just put a new demo online of EventChat, the app Kinura uses for turning ordinary webcasts into interactive online events.

The app now has social media built in so you can log in from twitter, yahoo, LinkedIn and facebook. Check out the features and admin tools here and see the demo. It’s probably more fun if you get someone to log in and chat with you so you aren’t just talking to yourself!

We have some plans to integrate further with twitter so watch this space. You can now follow @kinura on twitter if you want to keep updated.

Someone asked “What are the benefits of live streaming vs. pre-recorded video”

- and quite a few people have answered, covering pros and cons, interactive options, audience engagement, moderating feedback and so on.

Check it out if you’re wondering about such things!

Join the webcast and connect via YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter here.

One Young World, nicknamed Young Davos by some media outlets, is the world’s first global youth leadership summit. Bringing together several hundred delegates age 25 and under from the world’s 192 countries, One Young World combines the social power of the Internet with the energy and ideas of global youth to address the most challenging issues of today. Founded by David Jones, global CEO of Havas Worldwide, and Kate Robertson, Euro RSCG group chairman, One Young World focuses on plenary sessions at which delegates are guided by a group of international luminaries including Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Bob Geldof. The inaugural London summit on Feb. 8-10, 2010, will be open to the entire globe and people of all ages through online streaming and real-time updates.