Posts Tagged ‘community music’
[PODCAST] [6] Getting media coverage for your music education and community music work – with Penny James, Cardiff-based media publicist
In this episode, I’m talking with Penny James, a freelance media publicist, about how get media coverage in newspapers and magazines, radio and TV. Penny has held press manager roles with organisations such as Welsh National Opera and St David’s Hall, and she’s created national, and in some cases international coverage for people like Wales…
Read MoreHow to bring more relevant people to your website through content marketing
Would you like to grow the number of potential customers and stakeholders visiting your website, signing up to your enews, and ultimately supporting your organisation? Who wouldn’t. And in today’s era of ‘Google it’, publishing useful content – often called ‘content marketing’ – can make a big difference to the success of your charity or…
Read More[PODCAST] [1] Music for education & wellbeing – guest Anita Collins
In this episode, the first of my new podcast series, I talk to Dr Anita Collins, an educator, researcher and writer in the field of brain development and music learning, based in Australia. You can listen now below, on Spotify (search for the name), and soon on iTunes. Or read the transcript here. About the…
Read MoreThe #Mymusicaljourney Twitter campaign
Last month I ran a short Twitter campaign called #mymusicaljourney. I wanted to demonstrate a way of getting interest on social media that perhaps we don’t use enough in the music education/music for wellbeing sectors. It was also an experiment, as I wanted to test what worked, and what I could learn and pass on.…
Read MoreHow to get more traffic to your website and improve your Google ranking
If you’re a music organisation, arts organisation or small charity, you may be communicating well with specific audiences. But how do you grow your audience and get greater engagement and sales, participation and support on a small budget? One important and often overlooked tactic is to make sure every page on your site is ‘optimised’…
Read MoreBlogs about youth music, community music education on the Youth Music Network
Visit my Youth Music Network page for blogs about music and ‘at risk’ young people, quality in inclusive practice, hubs and inclusion.
Read MoreThe Music Works – case for support
The Music Works is a charity whose mission is to transform lives through creative music-making. It uses music to empower people to reach their potential so that everyone who wants to, regardless of their background or situation, has the chance to make music. In particular, it focuses on young people who face the greatest barriers…
Read MoreYouth Music – website development and user testing
“Anita is professional, efficient and innovative. Her work has made a huge difference to our communications with our supporter audiences, and we’d be very happy to work with her again.” Sophie Scott, Communications Manager, Youth Music. The Youth Music Network website is an online community for people working in music education and community music. It is…
Read MoreStories / case studies: music work with young people in challenging circumstances
A short post to share a range of promotional as well as evaluation/practice-sharing stories and case studies about work with young people in music. Many of the case studies and activities were supported through Youth Music’s Musical Inclusion programme. It’s been a privilege to talk to these music leaders about their work and hear the stories…
Read MorePassion – let young people lead the way in music education
“The number of young people opting to take GCSE and/or A Level music is reducing; music-making activities in school time are being squeezed yet music in all its forms continues to be made and listened to outside school by the large majority of young people (A Youth Music survey of 1,000 7-19 year olds across…
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