Performing Prince Achmed

Community Cinema Madness

A litany of things not quite going to plan over the last twelve years Several years ago a friend at the BFI said to me…

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Creating programme copy more efficiently

Ten years ago we screened nine films a year, produced a simple photocopied programme, and had no website. Now we screen about forty films, and…

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Still from The Social Network

Using Facebook for film societies

What’s the best time to post to Facebook? and how can community cinemas use it to best advantage? Rather than ponder whether to use Facebook…

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Using email to promote your community cinema

I suspect we all use email to get information out to our audiences. It is still one of the best means of direct contact. Though…

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Using Twitter for community cinemas and film societies

Using Twitter for community cinemas and film societies

At the BFFS National Conference, Bryony Forde and I ran a session on social media, which was lots of fun. There was a lively Twitter…

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Creating the BFFS conference Twitter archive

This is an unusually geeky post for this blog, but several people asked how I’d created the combined page of all the tweets for the…

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