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Category Archives: Careers
Art is Your Business – October 2011
Join me in Wells, BC to help weave the tapestry of this great warp and woof of talent and experience. Over the course of these days in October, the little town that could (create) will be bursting with artists sharing … Continue reading
Posted in Capacity Development, Careers, Creativity, Professional Development
Tagged Artists, Arts, Business, Wells BC
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How I use Social Media
Organizations aren’t social. People are social. To me the idea of a ‘fan page’ for a business is absurd, unless ‘fans’ themselves build it. The only ‘organizational’ Twitter accounts I follow are because I know the person behind the tweets, … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Cultural Economy, Left Brain
Tagged Facebook, LinkedIn, Marketing and Advertising, Social media, Twitter
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Bait and Switch
Barbara Eirenreich speaks. We listen. It’s strangely familiar… Pulling back the curtain on the paradigm of employment and jobseeking in white collar America, even in 2005 when this interview took place, reveals some hard truths about how we are preparing … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Economics
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Careers in the Arts
It seems ironic to me – and reason for concern – that parents who have nurtured the creative and expressive nature of a child would still be frightened when the child says: I want to be a…. (dancer, an actor, … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Creativity
Tagged arts careers, Careers, employment, innovative thinking
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The Long Hallway
It is important to make space where creativity can emerge, and where individuals can get help or share ideas not when and where the preset agenda dictates, but in the moment when the need or thought occurs. “The long hallway” … Continue reading
On employment and unemployment..
I worry about the latest growth industry in our community: the Employment Industry. Think about it. Here we have a changing world of work, where lifetime employment is a thing of the past, where the ‘hard’ skills we train for … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Careers, Professional Development
Tagged Careers, economy, employment
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School-to-Work Transition for Artists
Summary of Notes for Presentation Montreal Dec 8 2001 Q: What kind of ‘transition from school to work’ initiatives would be the most efficient to implement in a context where 50 percent of the 809,000 cultural workers are fully or … Continue reading
