Content Management Systems
Dance House Glasgow: Cloud ticketing for mobile sales & great CRM
Dance House Glasgow embarked on an digital development project to examine and develop its on-line presence, services and promotional offerings. This led to the implementation of an organisation-wide software solution to improve customer service, operational efficiency and bring new audience development possibilities. Dance House Glasgow now has an improved online digital presence and booking options with …
National Youth Orchestras of Scotland digitally transform!
Back in early 2014 The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) wanted to develop their organisation digitally. Their goals at the outset were not set in stone but they knew roughly what they wanted to achieve, working with Hannah Rudman to get there. Our initial ideas were to design, develop and implement a new robust, future-proof database,…
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland: digital development story
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland aims to transform lives through youth theatre by providing inspiring participatory opportunities for young people and by connecting, supporting and training the professionals who work with them. Our project was to develop a new online presence: a richer website which is easier to navigate and provides a welcoming and informative entry point…
Local Voices focus on digital for organisational development
Local Voices is a Community Interest Company formed in 2013 seeking to connect communities with their local traditions, primarily through songs and the use of archive resources. The company’s two co-directors are experienced folklorists, as well as singers and performers that have carried out workshops with schoolchildren in the Dundee and Angus areas with around 900…
Vanishing Point’s AmbITion Approach
Vanishing Point undertook the AmbITIon Approach in order to map out plans for the organisation’s digital development.
All that Jazz: the SNJO digitally alive again!
SNJO: In the Hall of the Mountain King The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and their Artistic Director, the saxophonist Tommy Smith are widely recognized to be “world class” with an international reputation for the highest quality jazz and programming. In 2013, while performances soared with rapturous receptions to their Ellington and Rhapsody in Blue concerts…
Cinema City: history brought to life with digital development
Glasgow Film, comprising Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, is the west of Scotland’s leading independent cultural cinema.Glasgow Film’s Cinema City project connects visitors and residents to the fascinating cinema heritage of the city. Back in the cinema-going heyday of the 1930s, Glasgow had more cinemas per head than anywhere else in the world,…
Dance North Scotland’s digital development
Dance North Scotland is passionate about dance, art and the environment. With over ten years experience delivering dance activities and events, our vision is to be the international centre for dance in Scotland, providing opportunities for artists, audiences and communities alike. From live dance performances to professional training, dance and movement therapy and community workshops;…
Artlink Central: AmbITion Approach journey
Artlink Central was supported via AmbITion Scotland’s AmbITion Approach fund. We used this resource to enable consultants to assist us in digital development, with the desired outcome of producing a thorough strategy document, with both short and long term plans for embedding the use of digital technologies within our organisation. Artlink management believed that while…
Archaeology Scotland – Digital Content Development
Archaeology Scotland is a charitable organisation, which works to secure the archaeological heritage of Scotland for its people through education, promotion and support. This project formed part of a wider digital development strategy that saw the upgrading and redevelopment of our entire website. This is our new homepage, which may be found at www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk –…
5 Life Lessons Learnt: Abbot House’s Organisational Development Grant
With its distinctive coral-pink harled exterior and lovely medieval garden, Abbot House is an unmissable visitor experience at the centre of Dunfermline’s fine heritage quarter. Currently in a transitional period, the heritage centre applied in 2013 for an Organisational Development Grant to help upgrade the digital skills and provision for staff, allowing them to better…
Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre – Digital Content Development
Toonspeak wanted some high quality digital content to make the most of our new website. A grant from AmbITion Scotland allowed us to work with film-makers and experiment with new forms of digital content. The new material proved very popular with our young people and resulted in a 54% increase in page views. We were…
Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Digital Strategy
Pitlochry Festival Theatre people discuss their digital strategy and how it is developing and embedding across the organisation, following their undertaking of the AmbITion Approach, supported by AmbITion Scotland‘s Make:IT:Happen Fund. Watch and enjoy!
macrobert – case study in digital development
macrobert arts centre for Stirling and the Forth Valley has been supported by AmbITion Scotland to undertake the AmbITion Approach to digital development. Here in this video, they reflect on the work they did and the digital plans they’ve developed to ensure their ongoing resilience as a cultural hub for the area! macrobert also have…
The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) – case study of The AmbITion Approach
The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s (NYOS) core mission is to provide high-level musical education and performance opportunities for young musicians in Scotland. NYOS is unique in that it provides orchestral experiences in classical and jazz music for its students from the age of 8 – 25, through no fewer than eight ensembles, ranging in…
Edinburgh International Science Festival Ambition Approach
Edinburgh International Science Festival’s Ambition Approach involved its whole team. Find out more about their digital journey.
Digital Public Space – masterclass on demand
The core idea of a Digital Public Space is that it could give everyone, everywhere, unrestricted access to an open resource of culture and knowledge. This vision has emerged from ideas around building platforms for engagement around cultural archives, but has the potential to become something much wider. This masterclass helps you to learn a…
Wee Stories – Digital Transformation Approach
Wee Stories worked with consultant Abigail Carney on the Ambition Approach journey. It included a digital audit, a workshop day for Board and staff to identify the possibilities and priorities for digital development of the company, a business case for future development, culminating with an application to the Make:IT:Happen organisational development fund. The Ambition Approach…
All that Jazz: an Ambition Approach Case Study
The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s Amb:IT:ion Approach grant enabled an expert to examine our current online presence and mechanisms, identify problems, suggest solutions for future digital development to ensure a robust, sustainable and effective future for the orchestra.