Introduction
VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland provided YS2022 Community Stories Fund recipients with a series of free webinars on marketing and event management skills during 2022.
Video recordings of all the webinars are available to watch on this webpage. In addition, the original presentations and resource documents are available to download beneath most videos.
If you have any trouble accessing the videos or documents, please contact carolynm@museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk.
To access each video's subtitles/closed captions, please click on the relevant video window and then click the white rectangular icon at the bottom of the window.
Webinar 1: Marketing Support Available
This first webinar, hosted in December 2021, explores how Round One funding recipients can make the most of the Themed Year opportunity in 2022. It covers the promotional support available through VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland, an overview of the Marketing Requirements for the Fund, and key tips from the Marketing and PR Toolkit.
Webinar 2: How to Deliver Online Events
From initial planning and choosing a platform, to managing expectations and deciding how to price your events, this panel session highlights some of the key things to consider when delivering online events. Hosted by Torquil Macleod, Development & Engagement Manager at VisitScotland, the webinar features the following speakers:
- Adam Cameron – Director and Chief Brand Officer at Cameron Events (producer of a number of VisitScotland’s virtual and hybrid events)
- Daniel Abercrombie – Programme & Events Manager at the Scottish Storytelling Centre / Associate Director at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival
- Lesley Shaw – Festival Manager at Celtic Connections
We've put together a summary of the top tips shared by our speakers, as well as links to some useful resources - case studies, webinars and advice pages - to enable you to learn more about delivering online events.
You can download PDFs of both documents below.
Download How to Deliver Online Events - top tips
Download How to Deliver Online Events - resources
Webinar 3: Introductory Webinar
This introductory webinar for Round 2 funding recipients, held in May 2022, explores how to make the most of the Themed Year opportunity. The Year of Stories team outlines:
- The YS2022 marketing campaign and promotional support available through VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland.
- The Community Stories Fund’s Marketing Requirements.
- Key tips from the Marketing and PR Toolkit.
- The support available to help funding recipients to safeguard and record Intangible Cultural Heritage activity.
Download Introductory Webinar presentation
Webinar 4: Delivering Events Sustainably
Sustainability is a growing concern for us all and there are multiple elements to consider when it comes to planning and delivering events sustainably. In this webinar we define what sustainable development means in relation to events and break down the key principles involved. In addition, we share real-life case studies, tips and inspiration to help you think practically about how to incorporate sustainability into your practice.
The webinar is hosted by Dr Jane Ali-Knight, a Professor in Festival and Event Management at Edinburgh Napier University, and features speakers from:
- HebCelt – Graham MacCallum, Depute Festival Director, talks about how this Lewis-based festival is embedding sustainability into their operations.
- Cryptic – Fiona Haggerty, Project Manager, shares this Glasgow-based producing arts house's top tips for building sustainability into planning.
The session will:
- Give you a clear outline of the three dimensions of sustainability – social, environmental and economic.
- Help you to plan more sustainably, regardless of the scale of your organisation or the resources available to you.
- Help you to identify what you may already be doing well.
- Provide real-life examples and tips from event organisers who have taken practical steps to deliver activity more sustainably.
- Inspire you to think about how to deliver your events more sustainably and to identify potential next steps.
Download Delivering Events Sustainably - presentation
Download Delivering Events Sustainably - resources
Webinar 5: Reaching Digitally Excluded Audiences
This webinar explores how you can engage with digitally excluded audiences. Many of us have had to, or chose to, move to a digital-only approach to marketing. It's important to remember that this doesn't work for everyone and that we have the right tools to reach people.
This session:
- Explores the meaning of digital exclusion/digital poverty
- Examines the types of audiences that might be excluded and why
- Helps you understand who your digitally excluded audiences are
- Offers ideas for reaching your digitally excluded audiences
- Shows you how to measure the success and impact of your approach and actions
Who will benefit most from this session?
Those with some basic marketing knowledge and an understanding of their target audiences.
Who is the speaker?
Christina Lister | Marketing Consultant | Christina Lister Comms
Christina is a marketing and audience development consultant with 20 years’ experience working in agency, in-house and consultancy positions.
Her experience spans larger organisations such as the Science Museum Group, Empire Cinemas and Museum of London; sector support and development organisations such as the Association of Independent Museums, SHARE Museums East and the AMA; and independent and smaller organisations including Jane Austen’s House, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, the Museum of Cambridge, American Library, Babylon Arts, Norwich Historic Churches Trust, and Ensemble Dance Co.
Download Reaching Digitally Excluded Audiences - presentation
Download Reaching Digitally Excluded Audiences - resources
Webinar 6: Diversifying Your Audience
This webinar will help you define what ‘diversifying audiences’ means for your organisation. There is value in clarifying what diversity means. Approaches to and the understanding of ‘diversifying audiences’ are changing. It’s distinct from equality and inclusion.
This session:
- Explores how diversifying your audiences impacts your whole organisation
- Offers ideas on how to embed diversity and inclusion in your marketing
- Provides practical tips to start diversifying your audience
Who will benefit most from this session?
This session is suitable for anyone that wants to diversify their audience. It would be useful to think about which missing audiences you want to prioritise / target before watching this webinar.
Who is the speaker?
Mel Larsen | Consultant and Coach | Mel Larsen and Associates
Mel is a Business Growth Coach & Consultant helping freelancers, entrepreneurs and cultural organisations to have a vision and strategies that get results. Her work has taken her across the world including across the Caribbean, across Russia, Australia, Eastern Europe and South Africa.
Her clients have included Arts Council England, Australian Arts Council and The British Council.
She is author of 'A Guide to working with Arts Ambassadors’ and co-author of 'Open Up: museums for everyone’.