Digital Practices: Digital Publishing for London RFOs

My latest Digital Practices news installment is out in a-n magazine. This time I reported on an Art of Digital London event helping develop RFOs’ knowledge of digital publishing.

It starts like this:

“Art of Digital London is an Arts Council England programme designed to help London Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) develop strong strategies for connecting with audiences via technology. It features ten Digital Strategy Salons and Surgeries organised by OpenMute, IT4Arts and IT4Communities. So far, these have looked at: project planning, revenue generation and innovation, with the latest, entitled ‘Publishing – The Digital Word and the Arts’, taking on the evolution of arts publishing platforms.

The morning’s presentations included Chris Meade from ‘think and do tank’ Institute for the Future of the Book (if:book) who asked what ‘bookiness’ is in the information age, and looked at how digital technologies can reinvigorate the reading experience (after showing some all-too familiar images of people napping in libraries).”….read more