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Survey incentives: Are they worth it?

At some point, the success of your evaluation strategy lies in the willingness of the audiences to be surveyed. Often when trying to bolster response rates our clients will look to offering a survey incentive to encourage their respondents to...

Festival 2018 Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Arts and Culture Program

On the one year anniversary of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, the comprehensive post-Games report has been published by the Queensland government. Culture Counts is extremely proud to have evaluated the cultural and economic impact of the Games, collecting and analysing...

Moving and shaking: Culture Counts April Update

It’s been a big few months over here at Culture Counts. After many months of hard work, the Impact & Insights Toolkit was launched last week by our team in the UK – more on this below. The first phase has seen...

Celebrating International Women’s Day

We’ve been inspired by the conversations and celebrations of female identity that happened across Australia for International Women’s Day last Friday. Here are some of our favourites: Sydney Opera House’s talks and ideas festival All About Women celebrated IWD with a series of...

Museums & Galleries of NSW’s Small-to-Medium Sector Census

Museums & Galleries of NSW (M&G NSW) have just released their third major census of the small-to-medium museum and gallery sector, with data capture and reporting by Culture Counts.  The sector census collected data from 377 organisations from around NSW. In...

Report writing 101

You’ve built your surveys and collected responses; now it’s time to analyse your results and compile the key findings into a report. A good report should address the objectives of your evaluation plan, present the data clearly and be written...

6 steps to avoiding survey fatigue

Surveys can be an invaluable resource when collecting data and insights from your audiences, however, there is such thing as too much of a good thing. Overly complicated and over-zealous surveying can test both the patience and sanity of your...

Our top tips for successful evaluation in 2019

To ring in the new year, we asked our client management team to share their best advice for successful evaluation so you can start 2019 the right way. 1. Set yourself up for success Monika Bognar, MelbourneIf the beginning of...

City of Melbourne

In 2019, the City of Melbourne Event Partnerships team evaluated a series of small events using Culture Counts, with an overarching strategy to understand the different values of their investment.