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SMIA Offers Discounted Social Media Training to Members

Dougal Perman — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:35:37 +0000

The SMIA has teamed up with creative content communications company Inner Ear to offer its members a significant discount for participation in a series of social media workshops this month.

Experts in content creation, communication and campaign planning as part of social media marketing and engagement, Inner Ear is running the following workshops in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

Social Media Campaign Planning Workshop
Digital Audience Development Workshop
Build Your Own Portfolio Website in WordPress
Social Media Scheduling for Better Business Development Workshops

The company behind the UK’s longest running internet radio station, Radio Magnetic, Inner Ear has provided expert training and consultancy services for the past ten years for clients such as Music Works, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Arts Council, Ambition, Channel 4, Soma, Chemikal Underground, FOUND, Hebrides Ensemble, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and many more.

Click on the above links for more information on each of the individual workshops.

Tickets for each of the half day sessions, which are designed for limited numbers, expert lead by two of Inner Ear’s highly experienced team, discursive throughout and accompanied by digital resources to take away, are normally priced at £90 (including VAT) but SMIA have negotiated a significant discount of only £48 (including VAT) per workshop.

Only SMIA members can take advantage of this offer. To obtain the discount code please ensure you have joined, and contact Caroline Cooper.

Poll: Skills and Training Needs

Dougal Perman — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:46:17 +0000

To get a better understanding of the issues affecting the music industry in Scotland, we’re going to run a series of polls through our website and social networks. Please contribute to the first one by selecting an answer below and clicking vote.

Let us know what you think about these, and other issues affecting your business in the comments on this post.

SMIA presents Keith Harris from PPL, Glasgow 09/08/10 (4/8)

Dougal Perman — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:53:48 +0000

On Monday 9 August 2010, Director for Performers Rights at the PPL, Keith Harris, came to Glasgow at the invitation of the Scottish Music Industry Association to talk about how the recording rights collection agency works with performers.

In this video, taken from the Q&A section of the talk, Keith answers questions on the royalty splits between featured artists and session musicians, how PPL works with the BBC, online streaming rights, podcasting, Spotify and new business models.

SMIA Digital Audience Development Event, with Inner Ear

Dougal Perman — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:49:31 +0000

To help promoters of music, arts and entertainment events engage with audiences, raise awareness and sell more tickets, SMIA members Inner Ear has been asked, by Edinburgh Fesitval Fringe, to devise and deliver a Digital Audience Development Seminar.

The seminar takes place on Monday 23 August from 11.30 am at Fringe Central, lasts 90 minutes, including Q&A, and is free.

The SMIA will be there and encourage all of our members who are interested in learning more about online promotion to come along. You can find details of the seminar on the Inner Ear website.

Hands Up For Trad Social Media Marketing Seminar

Dougal Perman — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:39:19 +0000

Hands Up for Trad are running a day seminar entitled ‘Promoting Your Organisation on the Web” as part of Stirling Tolbooth’s The Blend festival on Thursday 25 March about how to use tools like blogs, podcasts and web videos in social networks as part of a social media marketing campaign to promote your events effectively online.

SMIA board member Dougal Perman, from Inner Ear, has put together the event, comprising three seminars on podcasting, blogging and social networks, following on from the seminars that he and fellow board member Greg Kane, from Hue and Cry, presented at Scotland on Tour and Showcase Scotland.

For more information, and to sign up (for only £10 for the day), visit the Hands Up For Trad website:

http://www.handsupfortrad.co.uk/promoting-web.html

SMIA Members welcome at Amb:IT:ion Roadshow

Dougal Perman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:02:29 +0000

Amb:IT:ion Scotland is a Scottish Arts Council funded initiative to improve skills and knowledge of social media to help creative industries in business development.

To promote the organisation, and encourage participation, Amb:IT:ion Scotland is running a series of roadshow workshops around the country. The first one is at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness on Thursday 18 March. SMIA board member Dougal Perman is presenting a seminar about online promotion with his colleague Andy McColgan. The seminar, entitled See and be Seen, Hear and be Heard, will be a practical session taking participants through how to use a suite of freely available online services as part of a social media marketing strategy. Dougal and Andy delivered two related seminars at Scotland on Tour and Showcase Scotland during Celtic Connections.

The event also features a keynote speech by freelance writer and consultant to the BBC, Bill Thompson, advice sessions from the Intellectual Assets Centre and New Media Scotland, amongst others. For more information on the event, and to register, go to their Event Brite page:

getambitionroadshow-north.eventbrite.com/
getambition.com/
innerear.co.uk/events/getting-digital-roadshow-north/

Registration is free and Amb:IT:ion Scotland welcome SMIA members.

New Members Welcome

Dougal Perman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:53:47 +0000

The SMIA welcomes new visitors to this website, including those who heard Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite (an SMIA board member) and Radio Scotland and Radio 1′s Vic Galloway talking to Janice Forsyth on BBC Radio Scotland’s Radio Café about the launch of the Scottish Music Industry Association.

On the show, Stuart proposed his idea for a new annual award to celebrate Scottish Album of the Year.

Membership is free until 1 September 2010 so please join and help shape the association.

Open to Members

Dougal Perman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:24:30 +0000

The Scottish Music Industry Association was publicly launched at Scotland on Tour during Celtic Connections on Thursday 28 January 2010.

The SMIA is now gladly accepting membership registration. To find out more and become a member, please go to the Join page.

We look forward to working with you.