This could have just been a tweet but I felt compelled to argue in my own way with this article from the other day in the Sydney Morning Herald Heckler by guest columnist Lynn Van Der Wagen, ‘I want out of Generation I’.

Obviously given the title Heckler it’s meant to get people a bit heated up and its quite the generalised rant so it is a column easy to object to. However, it was this bit that I particularly took umbrage to:

TODAY’S teenagers are shaped by a multitude of weighty issues – high levels of teenage obesity, a heavy binge drinking culture and a social media landscape with hefty consequences. Continue reading →

It’s getting a bit depressing out there. It seems there’s articles being written daily on how hard it is to get paid as a writer, let alone get a job. In fact, I’m starting to wonder if writing about how impossible it is to get paid to be a writer might be a valid career move as it seems a pretty popular genre.

Bethanie Blanchard in her Lit-icism column on Crikey did a great piece on the writer’s dilemma this week, ‘Why don’t you know what you’ll get paid?’. It’s so true that how much you’re going to be paid for a piece of writing is left off the table or not even discussed, unless you specifically bring it up. Continue reading →

Last week I got to go along to the Australia Council for the Arts Marketing Summit 2012. There was a lot of great speakers and a fabulous amount of twittering going on.

Of course it was all in aid of keeping artsHub readers across what’s happening in arts marketing, and it was published in this week’s artsHub News Bulletin – Hashtag Msummit – talking arts marketing.

Thanks to the Australia Council team for letting me come along and being such great hosts, as were the Recital Centre and the ABC who filmed the proceeding soon to be available on the Australia Council’s website.

Note: Video of the all the presenters is now available at the Australia Council website – it’s almost like you were there! See the Resources page at marketingsummit.australiacouncil.gov.au.