Rewatch Beyond the Promise webinar #3 - building a culture of reflection (with Tash Willcocks)
This final session brings the series to a close by focusing on how teams learn from failure.
Ash Mann
This week's best things
Influencer-led accessibility stories, the end of onedayism, hoarding pre-AI content, mobile vs TV, quitting wisely, AI’s brain impact, hybrid theatre, monopoly inertia, team tools, digital readiness, arts pay, and a brutal 1910 Tour de France, plus books, podcasts, and Anohni.
Thinking about a new community for people doing digital work
Is there value in an interdisciplinary digital community for the cultural sector? I hosted a session to find out. Here’s what we learned and where it might go next.
Three types of hybrid experience
A simple framework for understanding and talking about hybrid cultural experiences: Simultaneous, Layered, and Embedded. And why shared language helps teams be clearer about what they’re really trying to create when blending digital and physical elements.
Rewatch Beyond the Promise webinar #2 - looking at digital readiness (with Chris Unitt)
In this session, we dig into what it really means to be digitally ready and why that readiness matters more than any single tool or tactic.
This week's best things
AI-friendly Hollywood, Artists as strategic hires, questioning funding models, fixing team chat, phones without the internet, Brazil’s data rights experiment, Japan’s ‘system of systems,’ lawyers still trusting ChatGPT, decoding CEO AI hype, digital readiness webinars. Sent from the past.
This week's best things
A new community of practice, inclusive storytelling in museums, visual literacy as civil defence, team dysfunctions, mental health on TikTok, the cost of YouTube, the forgetting curve, AI’s limits, digital skills, art rate monitoring, and my enduring love for Sigur Rós.
Rewatch Beyond the Promise webinar #1 - exploring the report's key findings and recommendations
The first in a series of three webinars which aim to unpack the findings of the Beyond the Promise research into digital failure.
In this session I explained the background and context for this work, the main findings, introduced the tools I have developed, and shared six recommendations for better
This week's best things
Digital failure, smoky twirls, AI’s energy diet, alt-phones for t(w)eens, rotating sandwiches, Pocket says goodbye, Airbnb wants to be everything, leadership in 2025, the Who Cares era. I’m back from Aarhus, and I’d love your thoughts on the report.
Doing digital better: 'Beyond the Promise' report & resources now live
Why do so many digital projects in the cultural sector fall short or fail altogether? Beyond the Promise is a new report that explores this question and offers tools, insights, and resources to help organisations reflect, adapt, and improve their digital work.