Marc van Bree

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  • Five lessons arts marketers can learn from Google

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    When I started writing this, I discovered Google’s Ten Things. You’ll see some of it in the following post. Data Google’s business is data. Google’s mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” But Google doesn’t do that to be nice. It makes them money. Tons of money. John…

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  • 2010: the year for a technological framework for culture change

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    The last post referred to Greg Sandow’s list of changes in classical music in the last decade. I took that opportunity to look at a somewhat abstract concept of culture change: That is exactly why we need to get rid of the product-driven culture of superiority, elitism and dismissal. The Internet culture, and particularly social…

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  • New Year’s resolution: organizational culture and change

    Greg Sandow recently composed a list of the top ten changes in classical music in the past decade. It’s an interesting, albeit incomplete, list with plenty of agreeable and perhaps some disagreeable items. What stuck out for me was item number three: a new attitude toward classical music: Mainstream classical music institutions have tried many…

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  • Orchestra Survey: Monitoring and Measuring

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    None of the orchestras indicated they have implemented or established metrics for measuring social media activities. However, the majority of the orchestras (73%) recognized the need to measure social media activities and the remaining 27% were currently planning metrics for measuring social media. This is one of the findings I found most interesting. In addition,…

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  • Orchestra Survey: Activities, Engagement and Goals

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    The survey demonstrates a high participation rate among orchestras in the different social media tools. All orchestras in the survey are on Facebook and 80% of the orchestras have a Twitter account. But this just shows that orchestras have set up a presence, not what they are doing with the presence. That’s where the engagement…

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