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Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act, about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Authors Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak-Leonard pack a lot into 40 pages--an argument for the rise of active arts engagement, a framework for thinking about ways to actively involve audiences, and lots of case studies. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation.

This report describes the demographic characteristics of U.S. adults that participated in the arts (such as concerts, plays, and dance performances) via electronic media (e.g., TV, radio, computers and portable media devices) in 2008, based on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Separately, the report examines broad categories of arts participation via Internet. The report also investigates factors contributing to the likelihood of some Americans experiencing art through media. Finally, the report considers the relationship between media-based arts activities and other types of arts participation, such as live attendance and personal arts creation. June 2010. 146 pp.

Super, das ist ja ein toller und hilfreicher Report, danke fürs Aufspüren. ;-)

The second annual Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report, a joint project of Common Knowledge, thePort, and NTEN, has hard data and insights on the trends surrounding social networking technology as part of nonprofit organizations' marketing, communications, fundraising, and program services.

I have finally taken the time to read newly-published -quite newly, mid-September 2010- Horizon Report on Museums by the Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA), the arts branch of the New Media Consortium. 

Gestern hat mich Marc van Bree via Twitter auf einen Report aufmerksam gemacht , in dem Devon Smith untersucht, wie und auf welche Weise (amerikanische) Theater Social Media nutzen. Das Datenmaterial, das sie dabei zusammengetragen hat, ist ziemlich beeindruckend. Beeindruckend vor allem dann, wenn man bedenkt, welches Aktivitätslevel die heimischen Theater bis jetzt entwickelt haben. Netterweise hat Devon Smith ihren Report auf Slideshare zur Verfügung gestellt, so dass ich ihn direkt hier in den Beitrag einbinden kann.

But the simplest evidence I have for the statement that design impacts visitor contributions comes from a formative evaluation performed at LACMALab for their nano exhibition in 2004. In the report, evaluator Marianna Adams described a simple experiment in visitor response. LACMALab took one question--"What connections do you see between art and science?"--and created two ways for visitors to respond. In March, visitors were offered white 4"x6" notecards and golf pencils. In April, these were replaced with blue hexagonal cards and full-size pencils.

"How to measure and define the success of cultural websites and online services is a problem common to all parts of the cultural sector - museums, archives, galleries, arts organizations, libraries and publishers. Worse, funding agencies and government departments lack the expertise to offer guidelines or set standards. The result is a confusing mixture of statistics and reporting that reveals little about genuine user satisfaction."

Late last year, the American Association of Museums released a discussion paper titled Museums & Society 2034: Trends and Potential Futures. The report looked back 25 years to 1984 as it predicted what museums will look like 25 years from now.

Trends and Potential Futures of the museum. The report looked back 25 years to 1984 as it predicted what museums will look like 25 years from now. Late last year, the American Association of Museums released a discussion paper titled Museums & Society 2034:

The 2012 Museums & Mobile Survey finding are now available! Please jump right in and feel free to dig deep into the information we collected in this years' survey.

Potential museum visitors access information about the organization and decide if they want to visit by using web-based sites such as a museum's website, social media platforms, and peer-review sites over more "traditional" forms of advertising. In fact, when comparing how folks get their information about leisure activities, it's not even close: web and mobile platforms (including social media) are disproportionately influencing your museum's visitation and attendance.

Aufgabe der Pilotstudie „Jugendliteratur und soziale Netzwerke" war, die Kommunikation von Jugendlichen über Jugendliteratur im Social Web anzuregen und eine aktive Projektbeteiligung anzuregen. Damit soll das Potential sozialer Netzwerke für eine kulturelle Bildungsarbeit aufgezeigt und ausgewertet werden. Im Moment sind wir noch in der Auswertung der Studienergebnisse. An dieser Stelle geben wir gern einen Einblick über die Zusammenarbeit Lehrern, Schülern und Jugendlichen, unabhängig von schulischen Strukturen.

DeDoose researchers facing real challenges and finding real answers-so take a few minutes and see firsthand how Dedoose can benefit you and your work including: the steps of establishing your account, importing your resources and descriptors, building and perfecting your coding system, excerpting your texts, applying the relevant codes, exploring and interpreting your work, and, last but not least, exporting your final results in a form ready for use in your article or report.

Every day millions of Britons engage with the arts and cultural sector through digital media.1 This engagement comes in many forms and is in a constant state of evolution, driven by technological change. Five years ago, mobile phones were for texts and calls and Facebook barely existed. Today, a quarter of us have a smartphone through which we can listen to a song, or watch a trailer for an artistic performance.2 Over 40,000 people track the Royal Opera House, and over 58,000 the British Museum, through Facebook; while FACT in Liverpool has 7,000 Twitter followers.However, this research represents the first time that this online engagement with arts and culture in England has been captured and quantified

It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding. The microblogging platform has grown by over 100 million users this year and expanded its staff from 130 to 350 people. And it's rolled out major redesigns and improvements to its site, mobile apps and APIs.

A research shows that most people actually don't rate supportive technology very high when it comes to museum visits. However, the comment section is quite interesting as it shows that this also depends very much on the type of museum. Art museums for example do have a comparably high acceptance of technology (about one third)

The purpose of this exploratory study was to advance understanding of how American museums are currently using social media. More specifically the study used an online survey to question museum practitioner's on current social media practices by looking at tools used, purposes, importance, effectiveness, measurement, satisfaction and success. The following is a bullet point summary of the findings.

"During April 2011 MuseumNext ran an online survey about Facebook and the way that museums should use the world's most popular social network. This survey was posted on the fan pages of several museums and we are grateful to those institutions for their help."