Tools and support
A helping hand
Other audience development agencies
Audiences UK
Culture Sparks
Audiences East Scotland
Hi-Arts
The Audience Business
Other professional bodies
AmbITion - getting digital in the arts
Arts & Business
Arts Marketing Association
Creative Cultures Scotland Network and opportunities for the creative sector in the North East of Scotland
Creative Scotland formally Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen
Cultural Enterprise Office Scotland's specialist business support for cultural businesses and creative individuals
Engage Scotland Training and networking needs within gallery education
Voluntary Arts Scotland Promoting participation in the arts and crafts
Tools to make your life easier
Get a free website
Moonfruit
Get Online For Free
Spanglefish
Joomla
Create a blog (or website on blogging platform):
Wordpress and how to do it (step-by-step guide)
Posterous (a blog that can automatically post to Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Flickr and many more pages)
Blogger
Tumblr
Post simultaneously on twitter, facebook and other platforms:
www.hootsuite.com
Tutorial for Hootsuite
Online event registration / ticket selling: www.eventbrite.com
Free editing tools
Video editing tool on Youtube
Master Photoshop in 30min
Don't have Photoshop? Try Picnik, a free online photo editing programme
Free email Marketing and Email list managers
Mailchimp (free upto 1,000 subscribers and 6,000 emails per month - easy to use too!)
Vertical Response
Crowd funding (alternative fundraising) websites:
kickstarter
ulule
bloomvc
File sharing and online computer back-up systems
Web bulletin board for collaborating with colleagues
Dropbox
Google apps (free up to 50 accounts)
Making things look great online - the easy way
Animoto (turning your pictures into short videos with music)
Issuu (turn your pdf files into online 'flick-through' publications)
Copyright Free images
MorgueFile
Stock.xchng
ImageBase
Flickr (images with creative commons license)
Customer Relationship Management systems
AudienceBase - FREE! Download here
PatronTechnology
Salesforce
PurpleSeven
