AMA Digital Day

Good evening! It is Sunday night, X Factor is on TV (I don't think I really care about any of the final 5 although if I'm honest I think it's definitely time Lloyd left. Isn't it?) and I'm here tapping away a little blog entry.

This is preparation for my presentation to the Arts Marketing Association's Digital Marketing Day tomorrow afternoon. I'm pretty excited as this is my first big London gig at Sadler's Wells no less. Anyway, if you're reading this on Monday after I've spoken, I hope it was useful!

So, here are the videos I'm going to need for the presentation, plus a few more bits and pieces that you might find useful.

VIDEO ONE



VIDEO TWO



And some other bits and pieces for you:

Hoipolloi on Twitter
Hoipolloi on Facebook
Hugh Hughes on Facebook
Our YouTube channel
Our audioboos

And a couple more videos for you:






EDIT: Wed 2 December

CJ from PCM Creative qik'd my presentation, which you can view here if you have a spare 43mins. Always slightly cringy to watch yourself back, so I won't be viewing it in too much detail although was pleased with how it all went on Monday!



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Shift Happened

On Tuesday, I was honoured to speak at the Shift Happens conference in York. It was great to meet so many people who are interested in what we're up to, thank you for being such an appreciative audience!

For those that weren't there, I cheated a little and presented a video that edits together all the video diaries I've made since February, which have been posted here individually before.

This was actually my second "conference cheat" where I don't actually speak live but play in my presentation by video (following my AmbITion presentation back in April). This time however I did actually go to the conference venue in York, thanks to my lovely hosts at Pilot Theatre.

If you're reading this having seen me at the conference, you can see the full diaries by clicking this link, which will bring up all the archived videos plus a bonus video of my Ambition talk! And if you want to ask any questions, please feel free to drop me an email.

For those of you who didn't make it along to the conference or would prefer to watch the edited version (!), I'm hoping that it'll find a home somewhere on the web in the not too distant future. Follow us on Twitter and I'll spread news about it's appearance through that channel.

Any, the real point of this blog was to admit that I never got round to posting the final video I made a few weeks ago, so here it is in all it's glory to complete the set:



As I've quite enjoyed this process of documenting our journey with the website and various social media tools, I think I may well create a few more to finish off the story as we go into the Edinburgh Fringe... please click back in a few months to see what we've been up to!

Finally, if you ever need a hotel in York, I'd thoroughly recommend the Dean Court Hotel. It was fab and had a brilliant view of the Minster!

Hitting the Top 100

Good morning on this sunny Saturday. It's a particularly exciting morning as I've discovered that the Scotsman's Top 100 shows at the Fringe includes BOTH Hugh Hughes in... 360 and The Doubtful Guest.

This is fantastic news and makes a great start to the weekend. The Scotsman is such an important paper during the Fringe and I'm excited that out of 2098 shows to choose from, they've picked both of ours to make their list of safe bets to book for!

You can read the full list for yourself by clicking here (Hugh Hughes is near the top, the Doubtful Guest is near the bottom!).

Or, if you just want to go ahead and book your tickets, click here for Hugh Hughes and click here for The Doubtful Guest.

Finally, for some vaguely interesting blog/tweet trivia!

I've just realised that my 200th Hoipolloi tweet was all about making the top 100. Funny how numbers stack up like this! And having just looked back at things, my 100th tweet was a link to a video diary for Shift Happens which takes place on Monday and Tuesday this coming week. Bizarre!

Another shift is happening!

Good morning! Hugh, Mike (our Business Development Director) and I are off to Cardiff this morning to meet with the lovely people at the new National Theatre of Wales.

It's also just over two weeks until the Shift Happens conference takes place in York.

I'm really excited about going, especially as they've asked me to speak. I'm cheating slightly by pre-preparing lots of stuff in advance and have previously posted the first and second installments of my video diary here and here.

Now it's time for the third installment. I actually made this a few weeks back and, as ever, forgot to post it here at the time! I've also just made a new one which I'll put up next week.

Enjoy!



And thank you to Shaggy359 for the pic!

A talk with AmbITion

Today I'm talking at an AmbITion event in Manchester. And that's Manchester, UK not a similarly-named town here in Tasmania. And yet, I don't actually start my journey back to England until tomorrow!

How am I doing it? I'm doing the presentation via a YouTube video! All this means I don't need to get nervous as it's all pre-prepared and all they have to do back in the UK is hit play! This is definitely the kind of presentation I could get used to!

If you're at the event in Manchester, I hope you're having a fantastic day and sorry I can't be with you. If watching the video raises any further questions that I don't appear to answer, feel free to email me and I'll do my best to help out.

The video follows our journey from Launceston in the north of Tasmania, back down to Hobart here in the south. If you find what I'm saying at all boring, feel free to turn the sound off and just watch the stunning scenery in the background!

Enjoy!

Tweeting a century

My latest Tweet is (or certainly will be) a link to this blog, which is a video about Twitter. And more by luck than any kind of sensible judgment, that Tweet is also Hoipolloi's 100th!

It amuses me that we've reached a century already, having only been using Twitter for a couple of months, unlike this blog which has been running for a good year or so and will only hit the 100 post mark in the next week or so.

Anyway, back to the point.

This is the latest installment of my video diary leading up to Shift Happens in June (click here for the first). It was recorded a couple of weeks ago in Sydney but I'm still playing catch up. Enjoy!



Thank you to Woody1778a for the picture.

Shift Happens 2.0

Ironically, this isn't another post about our recent earthquake here in Melbourne! I've been invited by Pilot Theatre to be one of the speakers at this year's Shift Happens conference in York (29 to 30 June).

Marcus, Pilot's Artistic Director, has asked me to provide people with an insight into the ways we're using social media tools here at Hoipolloi.

I've started creating some video diaries of my experiences, which I'll eventually edit together for the conference itself. I thought I'd share these here so that you can get a sense in 'real-time' how everything's fitting together. Although I have to admit that I'm a bit behind myself because I made this first one before I left for Australia and I've already made a second one, which I'll post early next week.

To book your place at the actual event, visit www.shift-happens.co.uk for more info. And thanks to Eurleif for the image.