Hat tip to Artful Manager Andrew Taylor for noting Doug Fox’s piece on how poorly Internet media outlets and blogs were involved in the National Performing Arts Convention.
Generally, I don’t replicate links to which prominent bloggers like Taylor have drawn attention, but I was just astounded by how few references and links a highly promoted conference like NPAC got. I don’t know about other people but I was getting emails from different sources at least twice a week for the 6-8 weeks leading up to the conference urging me to go. I had already planned to go to China so the conference was out for me. While there looked to be some interesting sessions planned, nothing struck me to blog about it so I made no references to the event.
Fox makes some suggestions for the next time around but it occurs to me that some of his points about opening access and encouraging promotion can apply on a smaller scale to our own arts organizations and communities. (Assuming people want to write about your company.)