Scott Kirsner - Fans, Friends, and Followers - Part 1

Scott Kirsner came to BAVC to present a workshop revolving around his book "Fans, Friends, and Followers."

From Scott Kirsner, "What are the two biggest challenges for artists working in this digital age? The tools to produce films, music, books, and art have been democratized: theyre accessible and inexpensive. And the channels to distribute all sorts of creative products have also been blown wide open: today, anyone can distribute a video or a song or an image to a global audience, for free. The result is the noisiest, most chaotic marketplace that creative artists have ever known. That noise and chaos creates the two biggest challenges facing artists today: how do you cultivate a big audience for your work, and how do you leverage that audience to support your career financially?

I wrote Fans, Friends & Followers to address those challenges with useful strategies, examples, explanations, and first-person success stories. It includes an overview of the tools, sites, and services that pioneering artists are using to create a new relationship with their audience. The heart of the book is a collection of thirty interviews with visual artists, comedians, animators, documentary filmmakers, musicians, writers, and others whove pioneered new ways to build a creative career online (and off.) It delves into the business models that can support leaving the day job behind. And all of the material in the book was collected in 2008 and 2009."

For more information: http://www.scottkirsner.com/fff/

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