As we creep closer to the end of our second year of our pioneering BA in Creative & Cultural Industries, I am really pleased to...
John O'Brien and I recently published a review of the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot scheme in the Irish Journal of Arts Management and...
We are only beginning to come to terms with the impact of Covid on our ways of working and on our relationships with each other...
May 26, 2006
I was recently asked to participate in a survey by a by post graduate student who is investigating blogging. It involved me ticking a series of multiple choice answers in response to around 30 questions. I’m always keen to offer what ever wisdom I’ve picked up after nearly 3 years…
May 25, 2006
May is creative industries month here at Interactions because today I’m in Dundalk where I am running a training workshop for the County Louth Enterprise Board. The workshop has been developed for creative industries in the region who want to upskill in the area of applying for commissions. While some…
May 23, 2006
In fiction, the most powerful weapon the writer has is suggestion. I think that nearly all good writing is suggestion, and all bad writing is statement. Statement kills off the reader’s imagination. With suggestion, the reader takes up from where the writer leaves off (John McGahern 1934 – 2006) I’m…
May 21, 2006
I contributed to a comment stream over at Management Craft where Lisa has a great rant about the intrusive nature of mobile phones (I am soo with her on this one). The post is about the message we give to the person we are with when we ask them to…
May 20, 2006
I contributed to a comment stream over at Creating Passionate Users recently and meant to come back to it to post something here in response. Kathy posted a really interesting article on criticism. She says The tricky part is that the criticisms aren’t always wrong. It really might be all…
May 17, 2006
Some of the bloggers I read include a “links for the day” posting where they link to four or five sites sometimes with little or no information about why those links have been chosen. I guess if you like a blogger’s fare then you’re likely to understand why they’ve chosen…
May 15, 2006
On Thursday I’ll be giving a presentation at the Crafts Council of Ireland’s Information Seminar on professionalism and best practice. I’ve done several training sessions for visual artists on this topic and Thursday will be a new opportunity to meet and talk with crafts people about a similar area. I…
May 11, 2006
David Maister has an interesting post about whether or not blogging is “dead” but more critically he’s talking about blogging as a relational activity also (one of my key reasons for blogging!). He asks a great question at the end of the post Let me ask all of you out…
May 9, 2006
Johnnie Moore has an interesting post on the Fetish of Change where he references a fascinating article by Christopher Grey Grey’s article is a critique of the current orthodoxy that the world is changing at an ever faster rate, that organizations must adapt to this change in order to survive,…
May 8, 2006
I refer to myself as an extroverted thinker. That’s shorthand for – I haven’t a clue what I know until I start talking to someone – that’s why you’ll see frequent references here to “conversations”. Conversations are my key strategy for understanding myself and I’ve also found in my consulting…
