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Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) and Culture Counts

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) used Culture Counts as part of the Arts Queensland 2016 pilot to capture data about two events, the CIAF Fashion Performance (Birrimbi Dulgu Bajal) as part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival in March 2016, and...

Culture Counts welcomes new Marketing and Client Manager, Alison Lasek

We are very pleased to welcome and introduce Alison Lasek, who joins the team at Culture Counts as Marketing and Client Manager. Alison has a background both in the arts and marketing/client management. Most recently Alison worked at the Australian...

The story of Culture Counts (and our software)

Four years ago I met a very excited economist with a weird but compelling idea. He pitched it to me simply: ‘Some industries, like sports, are good at getting funding. I have come up with a way to help the...

WiFi Collection Drives Down Costs, Increases Insight

Multiple organisations have been connecting their Culture Counts surveys to public WiFi networks at places and during events, enabling the collection of feedback data at a very low marginal cost. In the past year, one of our evaluations has amassed...

Digital Inclusion in Remote Communities

Many remote communities lack access to digital services. Telstra’s Digital Inclusion Strategy aims to provide all Australians with access to digital infrastructure and improve their ability to use digital products and services. This involves providing mobile base stations and broadband in remote...

The Difference Between Simplistic and Specific

In 2011, we embarked upon a quest to consider how best to factor conversations about quality into decisions about value. We asked ourselves: “Can culture be measured?” The origin of this question was the result of mutually frustrating exchanges with...

‘Evaluating in Packs’ and Sector Led Benchmarking

Culture Counts’ cultural clients, both old and new, are starting to act in interesting ways around shared approaches to evaluation and benchmarking. For example, Culture Counts is working with a cluster of organisations in the North West of England to...

Design at Culture Counts: The tools we use

Some say that makers are only as good as the tools they use. Although this might not be the case for all industries, it’s true that without the software, many design teams these days would find it very difficult (if...

Social Benefit Bonds and the Arts

“Impact investing” is a buzz phrase amongst some of the world’s biggest financial institutions. Basically, it’s all about investing in things that not only provide a financial return but also produce significant and measurable social and economic impacts. Social impact...