We have been dropping hints all summer and can finally announce that 2025 Digital Culture Awards are open for entries!
The Digital Culture Awards – celebrating digital and tech innovation in creativity and culture.
The Digital Culture Network is 5!
Meet Dean, our Tech Champion who specialises in Video and Digital Content.
Dean Shaw, Video and Digital Content Tech Champion, is taking his camera and his expertise out on tour – and he could be visiting YOU!
Meet Monica, our Tech Champion who specialises in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
Our Digital Accessibility Tech Champion, Roberta, caught up with disability-led arts organisation, Shape Arts, to talk all things accessibility and why it's so important. Have a read!
· Nov 23
Meet Andy, our Tech Champion who specialises in websites.
Jack specialises in the operational elements of audience research - data collection and fieldwork, encompassing online and face-to-face methods as well as other tools and approaches.
In an exciting development for the sector, the DCN welcomes a new Tech Champion specialising in supporting organisations to gather and harness the power of audience data.
Digital Journeys is a series of case studies, showcasing successful long-term relationships between the Digital Culture Network and creative and cultural organisations.
Roberta specialises in digital accessibility and can give you advice on creating digital content that is accessible, creating accessibility statements, and running accessibility audits.
On 1 July 2023 the website analytics platform Google Universal Analytics will stop collecting data, here's what it means and what to do next.
· Jun 23
Jacqueline Ewers, Tech Champion for Email Marketing and Roberta Beattie, Tech Champion for Digital Accessibility have recently attended the Creative People and Places event in Bridgwater. Here you can read Roberta's reflection on the event.
Katherine specialises in eCommerce. She can help you take your first steps in eCommerce or identify opportunities to grow your existing online revenues. Here you can find out a bit more about Kath and her work for the Digital Culture Network.
Introducing the Winners of the 2023 Digital Culture Awards.
Jacqueline is the Tech Champion for Email Marketing and can help you by offering advice and tactics for growing email contacts, email campaign planning, developing customer journeys, and ways to improve email response rates.
We’re thrilled to reveal the Shortlist for this years’ Digital Culture Awards!
The Digital Culture Network is going to Ticketsolve Forum 2023 in London and we would love to see you there.
Join the livestream for the Digital Culture Awards on Wednesday 29 March.
Learn the results of the first round of the 2023 Digital Culture Awards.
Introducing a brand-new Digital Culture Award category where all nominees are chosen by the Tech Champions!
Ollie is our Tech Champion for Digital Marketing and Strategy. He can support you through the research, planning and development stages of your digital marketing strategy, providing tools, techniques, and tactics to improve your chances of success online. Here you can find out a bit more about Ollie and his work for the Digital Culture Network.
· Dec 22
The Community Libraries Network and the Digital Culture Network have come together to provide Tech Champion support to community libraries on their digital journeys.
The Digital Culture Network is looking to recruit a Tech Champion specialising in Digital Accessibility for the first time.
Meet the 2022 Digital Culture Awards Winners and hear what they've been doing in months since their win.
Dean is the longest-standing Tech Champion, and has been with The Digital Culture Network since 2019. Dean specialises in the production and distribution of engaging digital content, from creating great video and photo content, to the strategy behind when and where is the best time and place to reach your own unique audience. Here you can find out a bit more about Dean and his work for the Digital Culture Network.
James was one of the first Tech Champions to join the Digital Culture Network in 2019, and, since then he supported over 380 organisations! James specialises in Data Analytics & Insight, and can help you with digital strategy, website development and data-driven decision-making. Here you can find out a bit more about James and his work for the Digital Culture Network.
The Digital Culture Awards – celebrating digital and tech innovation in creativity and culture.
Our team is expanding, and over the last couple of months, we've had two new Tech Champions join the Digital Culture Network Team. Here you can learn more about them, their specialisms, and the support they can offer.
The Association of Cultural Enterprises has put together a great set of resources to promote Museum Shop Sunday. Our Tech Champion for eCommerce, Kath, shares her excitement about the campaign and highlights what a great opportunity this is for museums and cultural venues.
· Oct 22
Over the last couple of months we've welcomed not one, not two but three new Tech Champions into the team! Here we'll tell you a bit about them and how they could help you and your organisation.
Find out where we've been and where you should be going!
Celebrating the best digital innovation in the arts: Arts Council England’s Digital Culture Network announces winners of the first Digital Culture Awards
Announcing the Digital Culture Awards Shortlist for Digital Inclusion and Digital Storytelling categories. Voting now open until 14 January!
Announcing the Digital Culture Awards Shortlist for Content Creation and Distribution and Being Social categories.
Announcing the Digital Culture Awards Shortlist for Data Driven and Income Generation categories.
Announcing the Digital Culture Awards Shortlist for Digital Trailblazer and Emerging Digital Leader categories.
You may have heard about Apple’s latest privacy features for iOS15. The new update offers Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) for people using Apple Mail. Find out how MPP will affect your email marketing programme.
Introducing the first ever Digital Culture Awards – brought to you by Arts Council England and the Digital Culture Network.
We’re excited to announce that the Digital Culture Network has been extended until 2024.
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Facebook recently announced they’ll be shutting down their Facebook Analytics tool as of 30 June 2021. Our Tech Champion for Data Analytics and Insight explains how this change may affect you and what you need to do.
· May 21
In February 2021 many organisations saw an unexpected spike in web traffic. James Akers, Data Analytics and Insight Tech Champion, explains what caused the spike and what steps organisations can take to remove any spam data.
· Mar 21
Over the last year, we at the Digital Culture Network have witnessed a vast amount of arts and culture organisations shift their events online during a time when venues and performance spaces have been closed. Despite this increase in online activity, some people have struggled to access cultural content for a variety of reasons.
Did you know that 7 million people do not have access to the internet at home? Or that 17 million people only use the internet for limited purposes? Organisations now have the opportunity to place digital accessibility at the heart of their planning and digital inclusion strategies in work with local communities. Read on to find out what Tiina Hill thinks.
The Digital Culture Network has seen many arts and cultural organisations move their programme to digital, and this week’s Independent Venue Week (IVW) is a great example of this. They are showcasing a week jam packed full of shows streamed from across the UK to music lovers, hosted by different independent venues, showcasing the latest in musical talent.
Our team saw the sector make great strides last year. From streaming for the first time, embracing social media through to building whole new experiences and engaging exciting new audiences, you’ve done it all.
Fancy improving your knowledge around accessibility and gaining a verified certificate while you're at it? Look no further. EDX have developed a foundation level 4 week course that's well worth a look.
Our Tech Champions have been busy planning a series of digital training sessions - check out the schedule and book your place today!
The Digital Culture Network was launched in the summer of 2019 to develop the digital capabilities of the arts and culture sector. One year on, we reflect on what we've achieved, what we've learned and what you've told us.
Technology is changing the way we live our lives at a rapid rate, and culture is no exception. Cultural organisations are using technology in a variety of ways to drive their creative thinking and business practices. But how can they keep pace with the moving beast that is ‘digital’ when it evolves on a daily basis?