AMT Lab correspondent Filippo Stefania shares his impressions of the Cleveland Museum of Art's new ARTLENS app. Read his full review here and please share your comments or experiences in the comments!
New Product Review Available: ARTLENS
ARTLENS @ Gallery One: A Look at the Future of Museum Engagement
BoardBookIt: A Board Portal Committed to Being Intuitive
Board portals provide a tool for organizations seeking to improve the engagement and efficacy of their boards. Since the publication of Computer Software and Online Technologies to Deepen and Grow Board Engagement, which looks at common governance challenges among arts nonprofits and technologies that can be used to help resolve them, BoardBookit released a new report outlining the features of its product. So just how does it work, and what makes it a potentially helpful solution for small and mid-sized arts organizations?
New Product Review Available: Tugg
Launched at SXSW in 2012, Tugg provides arts organizations and other small enterprises with a means to host movie screenings of independent and emerging filmmakers. For a look at Tugg's features, including pricing, read the full review here.
Used Tugg before? Let us know how it went in the comments below!
Tugg: An Easy Way to Host a Movie Screening of Independent and Emerging Filmmakers
In the U.S, rights to present movies from major film studios can be obtained through Swank Motion Pictures and Criterion USA, the two largest film licensing companies in the nation. A third option that caters to independent films and grass roots organizations was launched at SXSW in 2012. Tugg functions mostly as an intermediary between independent filmmakers and their audiences, making it easy for movies to be shown in theaters and alternative venues. Its format makes it valuable for organizations that do not have an appropriate venues or filmmakers looking to increase their exposure.
Attentive.ly: Connect Email to Social
Does your arts organization have a long list of email subscribers, yet a much smaller number of social media followers? Are your social media followers just a small sample of your audiences? Even if your organization has the same number of email subscribers as social media followers, do you know if they are the exact same group of people? While social media marketing is increasingly being valued by arts organizations as a more interactive approach than traditional marketing,
YouJudgeIt: A Call-for-Entry Management Platform
Calls for entry often require the materials to be evaluated by a jury, and preparing to present those materials to jurors often becomes a time-consuming task for managers. This challenge is where regular online forms fall short and where YouJudgeIt, an adjudication solution by Westaf, provides a good solution.
Frustrated by Managing Multiple Social Channels? Buffer It!
Do you manage social media at an arts organization that has an online presence on multiple social channels? If so, have you found yourself in one of the following scenarios?
· You need to promote an upcoming event on your organization’s social media platforms. To do so, you go to each social media site and post or share the same content on each platform.
Measuring Unstructured Data: Brandwatch
Today, an increasing number of arts organizations are aware of the importance of using social media platforms to engage their audiences. While employing different channels is crucial, it is equally important to monitor, analyze and evaluate your organization’s performance across social media platforms.
When Post-Its Won’t Do, Try Trello
If you’re looking for a project management application, the following steps are probably familiar: ask for recommendations, visit app websites, look up reviews. You also probably ended up with as many options as when you started. Considering that apps get new features regularly, reviews become outdated quickly.
Looking at Trello, a free web based project management and collaboration tool developed by Fog Creek Software, was perhaps part of that process. Instead of attempting a comprehensive review of all its features, I will concentrate on the core functionalities that make it a great project management tool.