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5Comments Posted by admin On 27th October 2011
I love the idea of the Festival. I love the fact that people who know what they’re on about are available to answer questions from an audience who are interested and generally also fairly knowledgeable about the issue at hand.
I went to several of the talks at the first one. Since then, however, I have not known it was on until after it finished – which is odd, considering that I’m online quite a lot, and my social group includes people who work in the CBD and 2 of the 3 universities here; and I listen to local radio and watch local TV. Nobody I spoke to this year knew the Festival was on, and several did not even know it existed. I doubt you could make the Festival of Ideas generally known if tried to keep it secret.
Whoever is in charge of publicity for the Festival needs to be fired. Preferably from a cannon.
Dear Evan
I am sorry to hear that you didn’t find out until too late – perhaps if I might suggest that you and your group of friends subscribe to our e-new, like our facebook or follow us on twitter, then you’ll be in the know, so to speak. Our publicity was huge this year and I ahve included an excerpt from the final report on media coverage for the event – not only was it exceptional , it included a great uptake on a national level …
89 separate online articles, 63 print articles, 66 radio mentions and interviews, 7 TV segments
Of this approximately 43% was national
Plus we did two city-wide distributions of the printed program – I’d be very intertested to hear how what media you do engage with so we can reach you next time.
Best wishes
sandy v (exec producer)
(All sessions are now available as podcasts – worth having a listen!)
“89 separate online articles, 63 print articles, 66 radio mentions and interviews, 7 TV segments
Of this approximately 43% was national”
Really? In that case I clearly owe your publicity person an apology. It is quite remarkable that we (my guy, I mean) all managed to miss hearing about it.
As to what media, I can only comment on my own habits: online forums (Australia-based), a couple of news-aggregators (global), and FTA TV – ABC News24, Big Ideas, various shows during the evenings. I’m amazed, though, that I heard no mention of it from the Adelaide correspondant on Channel 10′s “The Project” – he had some event at the maritime museum as the only thing of interest that week.
I appreciate you taking to time to contribute That’s very hleupfl.
This is definitely a website that people need to get behind. The problem is, no one wants to do a huge deal of reading and not have something else to stimulate the mind. This is the internet, after all. Maybe if you added a video or two to emphasise your point. Ill stick around, FOR SURE. But, I dont know if others will.