Shaping better conditions: insights for funders from Beyond the Promise
Insights for funders on how expectations, structures, and support can enable or undermine meaningful digital progress.
Ash Mann
Building digital confidence: emerging lessons for leaders from Beyond the Promise
Clear, practical lessons for cultural leaders on how to create the conditions where digital work can take root and thrive.
Delivering with care: perspectives for digital suppliers from Beyond the Promise
What digital suppliers need to understand about organisational dynamics in the cultural sector, and how to deliver with care.
This week's best things
Digital project failure report out next week, June webinars, artistic beauty and abstract thinking, viral museum videos, brand messaging tips, compressed music risks, AI search impact, museum digital trends, AI in dementia care, TikTok ad breaches, Disney plans, AI agent confusion, and art adverts.
Beyond the Promise: webinars
A candid look at whatâs really going on beneath the surface of digital work in the cultural sector, and how we can do better.
This week's best things
Every world language in one place, 200 paintings and reframing old content, a 'software poem', AI thatâs actually good, Zoomquilt, finding time to prototype, the power of meetings, cooperation as a skill, and a request for summer reading recommendations.
Digital Readiness self-assessment
Get a quick, clear view of your organisationâs digital strengths and gaps so you can focus your efforts where theyâll make the most difference.
This week's best things
Floppy disks as shelf space, WCAG in plain English, designing for limited English, a moody global radio stream, weather apps hurting UK tourism, and Disneyâs churros beating streaming. Plus jobs, a joyful viral harmonica group, and tools to rethink time and knowledge.
This week's best things
A new NGA.gov, art in hard times, fresh ways to frame digital, ancient oranges, guarding teams from strategy fatigue, Japanese tree moving, bot farms and info literacy, quick sketching, AI dev hurdles, London Underground Live, and robot arms.
What do we actually mean when we say âdigitalâ?
In more or less every conversation I have had about digital over the last year (or more), the topic of just how stretched the word 'digital' now is has come up. Here are some thoughts about different ways of talking about all the things we mean when we say 'digital'