Category: Cultural organisations
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Some thoughts on the Hodge Review
Here are my immediate thoughts/hot-takes on the Hodge review of Arts Council England. First, some quick ones: Of particular interest to me… Given my background and the work I’ve been doing of late, I’m really interested in the proposed reform of reporting requirements and the publishing of a data and reporting strategy. The current system…
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Transforming Collaboration During COVID-19
A blast from the past this one! During 2019 we stated rolling out Office 365 – putting Teams front-and-center. By the start of 2020 the roll-out was largely complete – but training wasn’t fully ramped up and staff were still getting to grips with things. Then COIVD hit, and office staff all suddenly had to…
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Automate Contract Generation with SharePoint and Adobe Sign
I have previously written a couple of blog posts (1, 2) about elements of this system – but haven’t done an overview – so here it is! We issue data sharing contracts with third parties – sometimes several a month. The basics of these contracts are exactly the same with only a few details needing…
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Improving Audience Surveys for Cultural Organisations
In the UK, many cultural organisations receive funding from Arts Council England (ACE). To help justify this funding ACE would like to know a bit about the audiences that these cultural organisations attract. And this data is also useful for the organisation itself – it can help the organisation understand their audiences and show how…
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Hide Automate Button in SharePoint List CommandBar with JSON
A while ago I was playing with a Sharepoint list for generating data sharing contracts, and added a context-sensitive button in a column to trigger a flow. This would send the data to AdobeSign to fill into a template, and set off a signing process. Since then I’ve found a whole collection of JSON snippets…
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Enhance SharePoint Lists with JSON Snippets for Advanced Formatting
This will be less of a blog post – and more of a place for me to save a useful resource so I can find it again: https://github.com/pnp/List-Formatting This is a collection of JSON snippets to add enhanced formatting for SharePoint lists. Why? Let me give you an example. Currently I’m moving our cyber risk…
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Should we sell an NFT?
No. Or at least that’s my opinion! NFTs are the new thing – and there’s money to be made – so should cultural organisations be “minting” NFTs? NF what? Firstly – what is an NFT? “Non-fungible tokens” are an attempt to offer a way of proving ownership over a digital asset. Proving ownership over physical…
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