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Struileag – Gaelic digital stories
With music at its heart, La Banda is a cultural organisation which unites artists and communities in the UK and across the world in contemporary creative processes which respond to heritage and culture. Asking the question, ‘How do I fit into this planet?’ La Banda explores the Scottish cultural viewpoint in the context of the…
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,…
claimexpenses.com – a case study on counting carbon
This case study supported by AmbITion Scotland reveals Creative Carbon Scotland‘s digital development claimexpenses.com. The tool was developed with support from Sustainable AmbITion, a fund which focussed on utilising digital technologies for better environmental sustainability. Reflecting on the development of claimexpenses.com, users from Festivals Edinburgh and the Edinburgh International Festival, as well as the tool’s creators Creative…
White The App – Catherine Wheels and Hippotrix Case Study
In 2010 Catherine Wheels Theatre Company premièred a new show, called White, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. White is for children aged 2-4 and was one of the hits of that fringe festival. It has gone on to tour the world and now, four years later, it is still touring and, at the time of…
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…
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.
Puppet Animation Scotland CRM/Database Case Study
To CRM or not to CRM – a database rich media report In 2013 Puppet Animation Scotland were the happy receivers of Organisational Development Funding from AmbITion to source and implement a CRM/Database system to support the administration of our two annual festivals and other activities. It was a longer process than anticipated but very…
macrobert share! Simulcasting & Social Media Policy for Working with Children and Young People
Stirlingshire’s arts centre based on Stirling University’s campus, macrobert, has recently undertaken the AmbITion Approach, and has made some immediate decisions around digital developments. Last night saw macrobert’s first ever screening of an NTLive production, Coriolanus. The show sold out, with War Horse, NTLive’s February simulcast selling out within minutes of being put on sale!…
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…
Plantation Productions – Get AmbITion
With an award form the Make IT Happen fund Plantation Productions worked with Post Creative to produced a new website to profile the films and work that they do in the Greater Govan Community in Glasgow.
Case study in digital development: YDance
YDance worked with AmbITion Scotland Make:IT:Happen funds to develop a Digital Hub – an online tool that helps them achieve their aim of engaging young people with their own individual potential through dance. Enjoy watching!
AmbITions for an environmentally sustainable future
(A shorter version of this article by Hannah Rudman appeared as a blog in The Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network.) A huge body of science built up over the last 50 years proves that climate change is anthropogenic: human made. The balance of nature is being significantly affected by the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) humans and…
Digital Public Space
This publication gathers a range of short explorations of the idea of the Digital Public Space. The central vision of the Digital Public Space is to 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 to become…
Digital 2013: watch on demand
Our fabulous national conference Digital 2013 was held at the SECC on 25.04.2013, organised in partnership with Interactive Scotland and Scottish Enterprise. The keynote speakers and panel Q&A session are available here for on demand viewing! Conference Welcome – Alisdair Gunn, Project Director, Interactive Scotland Digital 2013’s opening address highlighted the pathway for the digital…
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…
Top tips on e-publishing
These top tips by Hannah Rudman review the main e-publishing platforms and considerations when planning a digital publication. It is relevant to any cultural, heritage or arts organisation that has print publications such as catalogues, text and guide books, non-fiction books, etc.
Digital Giving in the Arts
Says Matthew Bowcock, author of DCMS’s new Culture Ministry report Digital Giving in the Arts: “It may seem obvious to state that voluntary giving does not happen in isolation; it is anoutcome from a process of audience engagement which may occur over a long period.In a similar manner, digital technology alone does not magically enable…