Technology and Internet Topics for Upcoming Great Dance Meetups
I'd like to give an overview of some of the possible topics that we'll cover at upcoming Great Dance Meetups. And please share your suggestions as well.
You can sign-up to be notified on Meetup.com about these upcoming monthly gatherings, which will focus on Internet, technology, social media and new media as they relate to all aspects of dance. And you can read my Monday post as well about the launch.
I'll post the details for the first meetup--speakers, topics and venue--probably by next week. They will take place in Manhattan at dance venues.
Format
Overall, I view these meetups as informal gatherings with brief presentations and lots of opportunities to discuss and demonstrate the many ways that technology and the Internet are used by dancers, dance companies, dance teachers, presenters, studios and others involved with dance.
Often there will be a focus on do-it-yourself, low-cost and relatively simple ways to use technology and the Internet toward practical ends. And participants are invited to show and discuss how they are using the Internet and other tools so that they can get thoughts and recommendations from other participants.
Possible Topics
The topics are likely to be similar to what I cover here on Great Dance:
- Internet marketing approaches and strategies to sell more tickets, reach more dance students, generate more publicity, get more bookings and achieve similar objects.
- Different approaches to designing and building your dance website and the latest content management applications and design tools that simplify this process.
- How to use a range of popular social media applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and others.
- How to create, promote and optimize a dance blog with WordPress and other blogging software.
- Shooting, editing and posting dance videos to YouTube, Vimeo and other video sites.
- New approaches to generating revenue from your online dance videos: advertising, sales and other models.
- Demonstrations of how to shoot good quality web videos with Flip video cameras and other inexpensive tools.
- Innovative Internet-based fundraising approaches to raising contributions for your dance company, dance studio and your outreach efforts.
- Internet applications for selling tickets and merchandise.
- How dancers can create DVDs and a video portfolio of their work to use for auditions and other opportunities.
- Explorations of the many ways that interactive technologies are integrated into dance performances, installations and research.
I'm sure there are many other possible topics. We'll see what participants are most interested in.
I'm looking forward to these upcoming programs. It will be nice to have on-going face-to-face programs to explore these topics with others in the dance community.
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Doug Fox on April 22, 2009 5:40 AM
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