Twitter Feed Crossover Edition for May 2012

The majority of you who receive YCM miss out on some additional items of interest that I post on Twitter which don't fit naturally into my daily themed email editions of You've Cott Mail. Here are some stories and commentary I've linked to on Twitter over the last four weeks. -Thomas

THE BIG PICTURE

• Creative Placemaking has an outcomes problem
• Do we need more theater competitions for kids?
• A new biz model? Theaters with a 'throw-it-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks' artistic policy.
• Major London arts venues join together to access cheap electricity deals
• Nearly 1/3 of Broadway shows now have early curtain times on Wed/Thurs; 2 yrs ago there were none 

FUNDRAISING / FINANCIAL

• The way Arts Council England distributes funding shows a real bias for London/larger arts orgs
• 2 cases of execs who embezzled: one at London's Royal Acad of Music, the other in Alabama
• A new outlet for microfundraising: bank ATMs in the UK allow charitable donations
• Britain's Most Generous Philanthropist: An Artist?
• At RSC performance, protestors invade the stage to protest BP sponsorship
• Italian museum burns artworks in protest of gov't funding cuts 

MARKETING / AUDIENCE-RELATED

• 4 things that should shake up nonprofit marketing
• "Let's not kid ourselves about how caring and sharing we are with our customers"
• How to transition college graduates to paying full price for tickets
• How Austin Lyric Opera successfully revamped its digital marketing
• Coca-Cola's 'creative content strategy' video
• Touchscreen voting station enables Helsinki residents to have their say on new branch of Guggenheim museum 

SOCIAL MEDIA

• New service allows artists to perform (and sell tix for) live events that stream on Facebook
• Is "social business" the successor to social media?
• 6 Things You Don't Know About Google+
• "A re-pin is worth a thousand tweets."
• Why is shareable content so critically important to reaching a new audience? Listen here.
• Opera singer wins the 2012 Great Arts Blogger Challenge 

JUST FOR FUN

• A holograph of Tupac Shakur performs "live" on stage with Snoop Dogg at Coachella Festival
• "The future belongs to those who can imagine it." Fan fiction (incl. 1,747 stories based on Shakespeare) is booming
• Audacious theatremaker gives audience tongue-in-cheek audio guide to someone else's production