How To Guides

How To Get Going With Video Creation
This AmbITion Scotland How To… Guide explains the basics of choosing digital video kit to suit your content creation needs and budget options.

How To… Upload Video (a video guide to watch!)
This How To… Guide focusses on how to format and export video in the correct way so that it uploads in optimum quality to YouTube, Vimeo, Blip, or your ownself-hosted solution. Watch part one, then choose whether you watch part two (YouTube), three (Vimeo), four (Blip), or five (self-hosting) depending on which video hosting platform…

Digitising live lyric and narrative performance – resources
I’ve been working with the Federation of Scottish Theatre for the last year on an exciting Digital Action Research Project – 5 Scottish Theatre Companies have been undertaking digital development journeys and sharing the learnings as they plan, act and reflect along with the rest of the group (the action learning set). Associate (and digital…
How to… Get to Grips with the Opportunities of Geolocative Technologies
How To…This guide is designed to provide ideas on harnessing ideas around geolocation for those who project manage or implement digital developments in cultural organisations. It will also provide an important element of the basis for any strategic vision on how mobile technology will be harnessed within the organisation.

Webinar 6: Now you’re Talking! E-copywriting for all your online audiences
Jon Melville’s presentation for Webinar 6: Now You’re Talking!, 21.10.10. The presentation slides are available here on the GetAmbITion Network.
How to…Successfully Webcast
How To…For anyone who would like to know more about webcasting in general; anyone who is thinking about producing an event as a webcast; and anyone who is thinking about individually attending or receiving a webcast at their organisation.
AmbITion Technology Audit
Template/Guide: Part of the AmbITion Toolkit: toolkit.getambition.com: 2.1 Audit Your Organisation and Part of the AmbITion Toolkit: toolkit.getambition.com: 2.4 Manage Your Implementation
Business Case Outline
Guide: Resource for the https://www.hannahrudman.com: 2.3 Develop Your Business Case
Technology Planning Template
Template: Once you have completed the ICT audit of your organisation use this simple template to list the issues, with details and assign priority (High, Medium, Low) and timescale (Short, Medium, Long-term). Part of the AmbITion Toolkit: Audit Your Organisation
How to… Make Sure Your IT Project Doesn’t Fail
How to… For anyone who thinks that spending a fortune or loads of time on new technology that the workforce doesn’t use is a waste of good time and money (probably most of us!). This guide should help you to avoid that scenario.
How to… Make money from digital developments
How To… Any arts professional considering digitizing an organisation’s core content or off-content; and for anyone thinking about building a digital sales channel or digital community.

Video: DaDa – Case Study in Digital Development
Video case study: DaDa – Disability & Deaf Arts, is a innovative disability arts organisation based in the North West. Formerly known as NWDAF, it continues to be a cutting edge Disability and Deaf Arts Agency. Here Ruth Gould, DaDa’s CEO talks about how digital development has transformed DaDa’s organisational change.

