Can Social Media Predict Sundance Film Award Winners?

Jan 10, 2012

Sundance 2012 & Social Media: What’s a Filmmaker To Do?

Last year, I took an in-depth look at how Sundance feature films used social media during the Festival, and if social media was a good predictor of a film’s critical or financial success. With 9 days and counting until the 2012…

Devon Smith

Sep 29, 2011

High Impact Social Media

What’s working for arts organizations now? “Once someone likes us on Facebook, what do we do with them? How can we…

Devon Smith

Sep 23, 2011

Crowdsourced Voting: Modeling User Behavior with Math

Devon Smith

Sep 18, 2011

The Case for A New Arts Incubator Model

Next week I’ll be speaking at Arizona State University’s p.a.v.e. program — the performing arts venture experience, one of the few arts incubators in the country. The program offers “arts entrepreneurship classes,” financial ($1-$5k), in-kind (space &…

Devon Smith

Aug 30, 2011

SXSWi 2012: Trends & Panels

Voting for SXSW 2012 ends this Friday, and I’ve been racing to scan through all 3, 278 submissions to try to find the gems, to find friends who are also proposing, to find some clue into the future of tech. I collected a bit of data during last year’s panelpicker process, but…

Devon Smith

Aug 21, 2011

App Enhanced, Data Visualized, Socially Optimized, and Soon to be Open Sourced, Theatre

Pepys Inc debuted a mobile app called e-geaux (pr: ego) at the Capital Fringe Festival last month. Advertising for the show promised, “the only Cap Fringe show where you turn your…

Devon Smith

Jul 24, 2011

Circle Up People, the future of Google Plus depends on it

Devon Smith

Jun 23, 2011

Games for Change Conference

Founded in 2004, Games for Change is the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact. They bring together organizations and individuals from the social impact sector, government, media, academia, the gaming industry and the arts to grow the field…

Devon Smith

Jun 19, 2011

Earning Your Social Media MFA: everything we never get to talk about

I spend most of my time with clients talking about the most basic features of social media, so I was excited that the TCG conference this weekend gave me the opportunity to talk about the exciting future of…