AmbITion Re:connected – Event Round Up

This is a live blog of the AmbITion Re:connected  event at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester.  If you spot any errors or inaccuracies or would simply like to contribute to the conversation, leave us a comment!

Dave Moutrey from Cornerhouse, AmbITion project facilitator, now rounds up.

Here Dave shares some of his notes from the day:

“Find out what you’re good at.”  – Litfest.

“Think access.” – As reminded several times by DaDa.

You need to put your voice out there as there are others out there talking about you.   If you don’t then you won’t be part of the conversation.

AmbITion Re:connected – Panel – What does your AmbITion-powered website do for your organisation?

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Panel discussion featuring Millicent Jones from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO), Ruth Gould from DaDa (Disability and Deaf Arts) and David Leek and Stephen Freeman from New Wolsey Theatre (NWT).

Q: At the start of the project, Adrian worried that AmbITion would be about creating 15 websites.

What can the organisations just profiled share about what their new websites did for their organisations?

NWT: Everyone wanted their own space online and it’s been about integrating ideas into one manageable website.

DaDa:  on working with web developers.  Most have their own ideas about what the website should be.  Talk in ‘geek speak’ (paraphrased).  Ended up going with the company that made every thing clear and easy to understand.

Q: Question from Dave Moutrey of Cornerhouse in the audience asking about the issue of integration.  Is there a way to simplify things?

AmbITion Re:connected – DADA – previously known as North West Disability Arts Forum Case Study

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Ruth Gould from DaDa, Disability and Deaf Arts – previously known as North West Disability Arts Forum now sharing about being involved in AmbITion.

Much work based around access and the different issues that disabled people face with accessing the arts.

Staff have various needs, profoundly deaf, visually impaired, learning disabled; all need different approaches for providing access.

New technologies would have a profound effect on access.

Had a website designed in 2001 but more of an electronic brochure.   Established DaDaFest – a disability & deaf arts annual festival with awards dinner and online voting.  Nothing national that achieves that.

All staff learnt on the job – reactive rather than proactive.

They have an impact;  13 million people have accessed their work through the media.

AmbITion:Reconnected – Panel – What Enables The Changes

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Next: a panel discussion with Hannah Rudman, Sarah Fisher from the Arts Council North West, Kay Wells from Oldham Coliseum and Chris Gribble from Writers’ Centre Norwich.

Q: Has technology enabled the changes?

A: No, the process has been about looking at the organisation and changing from them.   Looking first at business models and how technology can be incorporated.

There is still a sense of it being new but we are talking about platforms that have been around for a while.

It’s about learning from people you engage with, a cultural change.

Kay mentions that it was about learning about people fears.

Have now found out that fear shouldn’t hold you back from trying out technology.   Nothing will go horribly wrong.