Today we gave a blogging workshop at the Alliance for Arts and Culture. It was interesting to see how many people were eager to sign up. Eighteen participants showed up and we actually had to turn a few more away.

Quite a few of the participants were from arts or arts related organizations. This is exciting; as far as we can tell, very few arts organizations in British Columbia are blogging right now. Of course, this is similar to other fields. I am always amazed how few corporations, business and professionals are taking advantage of this great communications tool.

Maybe our workshop will have helped to build a blog or two.

What could an arts organization do with a blog? Here are a few ideas:

  1. announce events
  2. discuss arts trends
  3. connect with other artists and arts organizations in the blogosphere
  4. feature individual artists
  5. give a voice to individual artists and other stakeholders (through guest blogging)
  6. showcase expertise to patrons, members, and funders
  7. function as a virtual gallery, museum, concert hall or book store
  8. function as a resource clearinghouse to stakeholders
  9. be a communications tool for members
  10. be the only web site the organization will ever need

These are just a few ideas. Maybe one of the workshop partipants will surprise us with some more …

(This post was included in the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants)

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