Creative Industry Blogging

Creative Industry Mentoring Boost

Leading lights from the creative industries are being teamed up with twenty four high growth companies to build the world class businesses of tomorrow in a new initiative aimed at boosting the UK's creative industry.

The Creative Business Mentor Network run by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)  has been started to develop creative businesses of the future in advertising, TV production and digital companies and help them grow into significant players in the sectors.

Chosen from hundred's of applicants this initiative is hoping to "build the world class businesses of tomorrow"

You can read the full story here

You can also visit the NESTA website which has a great start up guide

http://www.nesta.org.uk/creative-start-ups-guide/

Cultural blogging in Europe interviews by lab for culture

Labforculture at www.labforculture.org are carrying out a number of interviews with professionals on cultural blogging. Their aim is to find out more about how blogs are fitting into and influencing the cultural sector so they bought in Annette Wolfesberger to interview a number of professionals. Anette is the project manager at Virtueel Platform the Dutch sector institute for e-culture.

So far they have spoken to :

Claire Welsby, InterventTech.net
InterventTech is a place to showcase and discuss work that explores contemporary life in the areas of art and technology.

Click Here to read the interview

Alek Tarkowski, Kultura 2.0
He currently leads the Creative Commons Poland project at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM) at the University of Warsaw. Kultura 2.0 is a Polish blog about new cultural practices related to new media

Click Here to read the interview

You can CLICK HERE to read everything. It is a real shame that there are no audios available but the interviews are still worth a read.