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.
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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.
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 what’s 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 that’s actually good, Zoomquilt, finding time to prototype, the power of meetings, cooperation as a skill, and a request for summer reading recommendations.
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 Disney’s churros beating streaming. Plus jobs, a joyful viral harmonica group, and tools to rethink time and knowledge.