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artists break rules

by BethDunn on November 9, 2008

I’m on my way up to Boston in a little while to lead a workshop on Getting the Word Out for artists at a conference organized by my friend Kathy Bitetti, executive director of the Artists Foundation.  I’m pretty excited about it — it’s my favorite thing to do, work one-on-one with artists and arts [...]

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passing notes and twittering behind your back

by BethDunn on May 7, 2008

I’m in the final two weeks of presenting What’s Your Story: Personal Branding, PR and New Media for Artists — an eight-week class for artists who are just getting started in online promotions and sales — and today I spent some time firming up a few technical details with my next speaker, Len Edgerly, podcaster [...]

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an artyr for the cause

by BethDunn on January 14, 2008

The Boston Globe reported that some small arts groups are responding creatively to the Boston Foundation’s recently released report (PDF) on the state of the arts community in the greater Boston area.
Tomorrow night in an alternative gallery space in Cambridge, a self-proclaimed group of “artyrs” will drink Kool-Aid, eat chili, and participate in a “die [...]

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perpetual motion machine

by BethDunn on January 8, 2008

At the end of the day today I spoke for a long time with Rebecca Krause-Hardie, an Arts/Technology blogger with whom I appear to have a great deal in common. It was a free-wheeling conversation, not least, I suspect, because I had ingested very little besides several vats of coffee throughout the course of [...]

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couldn't DonorsChoose artists?

by BethDunn on October 14, 2007

Beth Kanter’s recent post about the power and recent success of DonorsChoose caught my eye.  This recent success story of a blogger garnering a very impressive response in the form of big contributions to DonorsChoose doesn’t surprise me at all.  It’s an awesome idea.
When I first heard about DonorsChoose, a site where educators can post specific requests for [...]

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