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Countdown and Final Checking
With less than 48 hours to go, the endless list making is starting to make sense. I’m travelling as light as I can, so one check through and one larg-eish handbag, big enough for travel docs, phone, iPad + other must haves on board – priorities here! I’m still not brave enough to go with
Continue reading ...Once more unto the road, dear friends …
Holiday time coming up … overseas again for the first time since last January. This time it’s off to the US and Canada with daughter in tow for the first two weeks. Sadly, she has to return to wage-slave duties while I continue solo on my merry road trip. It’s time again to consider making
Continue reading ...Talkbacks and Feedbacks get more social
The theatre tribe in my neck of the woods uses Facebook … a lot. They’re gradually coming round to Twitter. Blogs are not as popular … no surprises there. Social networking is being used, as you might expect, as a community support mechanism providing news, keeping in touch, promoting shows, providing links to items of
Continue reading ...Twitter: to follow or not to follow? That is the question.
Like many who use social networking software to engage in conversation, I’d characterise myself as a heavy Twitter-user. And the more I use Twitter, the more followers I get; it’s the nature of viral communication. I’m now followed by 1400 + people – small beans compared with some. Now, I follow some who don’t follow
Continue reading ...We are in love again, my inner-geek and I
Image via Wikipedia We’ve been together now a bit over a couple of weeks, my iPad and I – since delivery on Australia release day, 28 May. We’ve done a few meetings, an interstate flight, home duties, gone to bed together and, I must say, it’s been a pleasure! It garners squeals of envy and
Continue reading ...10 Years on … how technology has changed my world
Yesterday the new solar panels on my roof started generating energy for the first time, joining the smaller hot-water solar system I’ve been using for a couple of years now. I was fascinated to see the wheel on the old meter spinning backwards for the first time; the energy company will put in a new
Continue reading ...All the results live: the Matildas on Twitter
Image via CrunchBase For the rest of us who couldn’t be at Brisbane’s Matilda Awards tonight at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Twitter came to the rescue. Pete Foley (@iusebiro) and Katherine Lyall-Watson (@arts_tart) live-tweeted the event minute by minute. This is where social media used well is absolutely brilliant! Thanks to them,
Continue reading ...Quote of the Day: on the morality of arts marketing …
… the fact of the matter is that arts marketers are not in the business of selling cigarettes or cars or toilet paper. We’re in the business of selling art. And, theatre is distinguishable from all other arts because it is the one medium in which there is a direct expression of the human condition.
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