By Lucia Calvo and Maria Farràs With the collaboration of the CCCB departments

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The so-called social web is an excellent space for conversation, for sharing knowledge on a subject or for creating communities. As cultural institutions we have learned that the public is no longer passive and demands to play an active role in this conversation in order to become a contributor.

The “philosophy 2.0” has entered cultural ins-titutions through their communication and press departments, and despite this being a recent phenomenon, no centres or museums remain that do not have a more or less active presence on the social networks. However, the use of tools 2.0 is just the tip of the iceberg of another, deeper-reaching process that affects other spheres: work methodologies and pro-cesses, design of activities and programming, curatorship, etc. [01]

«The CCCB on the Web» summarises the first phase of the Centre de Cultura Contem-porània de Barcelona (CCCB) on the Internet, focusing above all on communication. The de-sire for constant learning and updating obliges us, however, to back a permanent awareness of participative processes on the path that leads from interaction to co-creation. [02]

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This document presents the status of the CCCB on the Web at the current time (Novem-ber 2011) and covers the principles and crite-ria that we have applied in the management of tools 2.0 up to the present, while trying to establish a methodology adapted to the Cen-tre’s needs and objectives. It also proposes style guidelines to ensure that the CCCB’s on-line communication be as coherent as possi-ble with our conceptual lines as with general Internet principles.

«The CCCB on the Web» aims to be simulta-neously an internal tool (for creating order, re-flecting on tools 2.0 and establishing metho-dology) and an external tool (for sharing the experience). It is a document that suggests a path for the process of change in which we are immersed; a constant work in progress that we wish to share and that will very surely require further revisions.

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The desire for constant learning and updating obliges us to back a permanent awareness of participative processes on the path that leads from interaction to co-creation.

Notes:

01 INSUA, J. CCCB LAB una visió de conjunt [online]. Bar-

celona: Labzine, 2010 [Consulted 8 September 2011].

Available at: http://issuu.com/icicccb/docs/cccblab

Sessió I+C+i: Institucions culturals 2.0? [online]. Barcelo-

na: Icionline, April 2010 [Consulted 8 September 2011].

Available at: http://www.cccb.org/icionline/institucio-

nes-culturales-20/

02 Sessió I+C+i: 2.0: De la interacció a la co-creació [onli-

ne]. Barcelona: Icionline, September 2011 [Consulted

8 September 2011].

Available at: http://www.cccb.org/icionline/ici-5-20-de-

la-interaccion-a-la-co-creacion/

SANGÜESA, R.; LAPUENTE, I. Una invitació al dis-

seny de processos de participació [en línia]. Barcelo-

na: CCCB LAB, 2011 [Consulted 8 September 2011].

Available at: http://www.cccb.org/lab/ici/una-invitacio-

al-disseny-de-processos-de-participacio/

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PRINCIPLES OF THE CCCB ON THE INTERNET

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These are the principles that inspire the CCCB’s Internet communication policy:

1. The horizontal, non-hierarchical nature of online communication. Communication via the Internet is ideally peer to peer com-munication.

2. Quality versus quantity: it is not only im-portant how many people follow us, but how we interact and what common objec-tives we share. We have to try and contri-bute contents of quality in our interaction with Internet users.

3. Public service vocation: inform and res-pond to consultations from followers.

4. Transparency: provide truthful information without advertising or deceitful objectives.

5. Dialogue and open debate around the Centre’s principal core themes: city and public space, literature, film, music and innovation and research in the cultural sphere, etc.

6. Recognition of the contents and the work of other institutions, people and move-ments online and offline that work for cul-ture and share values and themes with the CCCB.

7. We are not the sole voice of knowledge. Observe and learn from cultural exchange through numerous sources, movements and users online (eduex, cultura 2.0) who are experts in the field.

8. Promotion of participative projects with specific objectives that range from collabo-ration to co-creation with user communities.

9. Co-responsibility and netiquette: respect for operating and behavioural standards established on the Web.

10. Representation of the values and concep-tual lines of the CCCB: in profiles 2.0, opi-nions are not issued on a subject when the Centre has not made its position clear on it.

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STATE OF THE QUESTION: PROFILES & SERVICES 2.0

The CCCB organises its presence in the different tools according to the users being addressed and the subjects being tackled

• Corporateprofile: Addressing the general public to tackle

agenda and programming issues.

• Thematicprofiles: Addressing user communities interested in

specific themes. CCCBLab, CCCBEducació, Kosmopolis, Xcèntric Cinema, Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa and Public Space.

These specific profiles have been developed on the Web through Twitter and Facebook, the two tools that the Centre’s team use regularly with the following objectives:

• Strengthening interaction and conversationwith the users.

• Receive and respond to comments, com-plaints and suggestions.

• Provideinformationaboutprogramming.• Disseminate links and documentation con-

nected with the activities• Cross-post own content generated on the

blogs and websites of the CCCB. • Sharemultimediamaterialsderivedfromac-

tivities (chronicles, videos, interviews, con-feren ces), generated by both the Centre itself and by Internet users.

• FollowsubjectsandpeoplelinkedtotheCen-tre’s activity.

• Recommenddocumentationofotherculturalactivities that are not our own but that have a relationship with the CCCB’s core themes.

• Broadcasteventslive(LiveTwittering).

The CCCB uses other services 2.0 such as the functions of unified repository and platform for re-disseminating contents (videos, photo-graphs,PDFdocumentsandlinks).

- Vimeo (video)- Ustream (streaming)- Flickr (photography )- Delicious (links)- Issuu(PDF&documents)- Prezi (presentations)

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VIDEO

Vimeo http://vimeo.com/cccb

Since June 2011, the CCCB has been using the Vimeo platform as a tool for the publication and distribution of all its audiovisual contents: interviews, reports, promotional videos and conferences and debates.

Since the year 2008 the CCCB had made use of Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/cccbar-celona), which is now given secondary use exclusively for promotional videos. The CCCB Lab had its own video channel on the platform Blip.tv (http://cccblab.blip.tv/), where it pub-lished audiovisual contents related with in-novation and research in the cultural sphere: interviews with all the speakers participating in sessions of the I+C+i season as well as other CCCB Lab activities. At the time of writing this document, it is planned that all new videos generated on the CCCB Lab’s blip.tv channel will be unified into a specific replay list on the CCCB’s Vimeo channel. All those specific CCCB projects with a high volume of associa-ted videos will have their own replay list on Vimeo.

STREAMING

Ustreamhttp://www.ustream.tv/user/cccbarcelona

We make use of Ustream for the live video streaming of certain events. The CCCB uses this service to offer users press conferences, de-bates, conferences, musical performances and festivals online.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cccb/

The CCCB makes use of photography to leave a documentary record of nearly all the own activi-ties that take place at the Centre. A selection of photographic reports on activities at the Centre (debates, festivals, exhibitions, etc.) is published onFlickrtoshareitwiththecommunityofusersof this social network. The CCCB also partici-patesonFlickrtointeractwithusercommunitieslinked to the world of photography.

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LINKS

Delicioushttp://www.delicious.com/cccb The CCCB has 3 Delicious accounts, the so-cial service for the storage and classification of websites. In the case of the CCCB account, the tool is used to provide press dossiers on-line. The CCCB’s press team selects some of the most outstanding articles on the Centre’s activ-ity that are published in digital media.

The CCCB Lab (http://www.delicious.com/icionline)usesDelicioustopublishallthedocu-mentation generated in each of the I+C+i (Re-search and innovation in the cultural sphere) seasonal sessions. Kosmopolis (http://www.deli-cious.com/kosmopolis)hasaDeliciousaccountfor recommending interesting articles and ma-terials linked with the authors and themes of the different editions of the Amplified Literature Fest.

PDFS AND DOCUMENTS

Issuu http://issuu.com/cccb

The educational notebooks generated by CCCB Educació, some activity leaflets and the pro-logues of the exhibition catalogues are three kinds of documents that the CCCB has opted to digitalise and e-publish on Issuu to improve their visualisation. The reasons are that the Issuu service considerably improves the consultation and reading online of these documents and fa-cilitates their downloading and re-dissemination of their contents.

The CCCB Lab (http://issuu.com/icicccb) also publishes on Issuu: the I+C+i hand programmes and other digital publications that it generates periodically.

PRESENTATIONS

Prezi

Prezi is a tool with great potential for dissemi-nation which allows presentations to be made online incorporating the notion of movement, which allows more original presentations to be created. To date it has been used by CCCB Edu-cació for producing virtual visits to exhibitions and by CCCB Lab for preparing presentations of its activities.

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PROFILE THEME WEB/BLOG

CCCB Calendar and general programming of the CCCB

Web:http://www.cccb.orgBlog: VEUS CCCB http://www.cccb.org/veus

CCCB Educació Education Web:http://www.cccbeducacio.org

CCCB Lab Innovation and research in the cultural sphere

LAB web and blog:http://www.cccb.org/labI+C+i online:http://www.cccb.org/icionline

Kosmopolis Oral, written and e-literature Web:http://www.cccb.org/kosmopolisTumblrKosmopolisDiary:http://kosmopolis11.tumblr.com/Wiki Bookcamp Kosmopolis:kosmopolis2011.pbworks.com/

Public Space EuropeanPrizeforthePublic&UrbanSpace, urban design, architecture

Web:http://www.publicspace.org

Xcèntric Experimental cinema Web:http://www.cccb.org/xcentric

Anilla Cultural Latinoamérica-Europa

Networking between cultural institutions

Web:http://anillacultural.net/

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SERVICES 2.0

Twitter @cececebeFacebook http://www.facebook.com/CCCB.BarcelonaYoutube http://www.youtube.com/cccbarcelonaUstream http://www.ustream.tv/user/cccbarcelonaFlickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccb/Issuu http://issuu.com/cccb Delicious http://www.delicious.com/cccbFoursquare http://4sq.com/da9rZT

Twitter @cccbeducacio

Twitter @cccblabFacebook http://www.facebook.com/CCCB LabDelicious http://www.delicious.com/icionlineIssuu http://issuu.com/icicccbBlip.tv http://cccblab.blip.tv/

Twitter @kosmopolis_cccbFacebook http://www.facebook.com/KosmopolisDelicious http://www.delicious.com/kosmopolis

Twitter @publicspaceCCCB

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/XCENTRIC.CINEMA.CCCB

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152286661468583&ref=ts(group)

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OWN TOOLS FOR PARTICIPATION

The CCCB has designed tools and projects for participation that required interaction with the public and gave added value to the activity:

• ATOPIA.DICTIONARYOFCULTURAL MALAISE : http://www.cccb.org/atopia/ • BAMAKO http://www.cccb.org/ca/bamako• BLOGJ.G.BALLARD http://www.cccb.org/blogballard/• BOOKCAMP KOSMOPOLIS http://kosmopolis2011.pbworks.com/ • BRANGULÍ WAS HERE. WERE YOU? http://www.brangulivaseraqui.com/ • KOSMOPOLISDIARY http://kosmopolis11.tumblr.com/ • THECITYOFHORRORS http://www.cccb.org/laciutatdelshorrors/• YOUR VOICE http://www.cccb.org/veus/la-teva-veu/ • VIEWS CCCB http://www.cccb.org/mirades• WALLS http://www.cccb.org/es/murs • CCCB INTERACTIVE BROWSER http://www.cccb.org/navegador

• GLOBAL SCREEN http://pantallaglobal.cccb.org• POST-IT CITY http://www.cccb.org/es/post-it

PROJECTS WITH THEIR OWN WEBSITES

• CERDÀYEAR http://www.anycerda.org/web/ • KOSMOPOLIS http://www.cccb.org/kosmopolis/ • NANO http://www.cccb.org/nano • NOW http://www.cccb.org/now • PUBLIC SPACE http://www.publicspace.org/ • XCÈNTRIC http://www.cccb.org/xcentric

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USAGE CRITERIA FOR PROFILES & SERVICES 2.0

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In order to guarantee a presence of quality that is coherent and sustainable with the re-sources available, we are establishing a series of guidelines for the management of the cur-rent services 2.0 as well as for the opening of new accounts.

Prior planning

Online communication has to be coordinated some time in advance between the program-mers and coordinators of an activity and the person responsible for digital communication at the CCCB.

The main criterion to take into account is prior planning: before making use of a tool we should think about what it is that we want to communicate, why and whom we want to ad-dress, and what the communication strategy should be. The answer to these questions will guide us when it comes to deciding whether it is necessary to make use of tools 2.0 and which might be the most suitable.

Management of own accounts: the CCCB’s identities 2.0

All the CCCB’s tools 2.0 that involve the man-agement of a community and of specific cul-tural contents have to be managed by a person in charge of their updating and maintenance. This person must form part of the CCCB team

and, in the case of specific identities 2.0, be fully familiar with the contents that interest the user community they are addressing.

Every time it is intended to register a new account linked to the CCCB or to any of its own activities, it will be necessary to consult it be-forehand with the person responsible for digi-tal communication at the CCCB.

Those staff members who manage tools 2.0 cannot use them for personal purposes. If a staff member wishes to have an own account and link it professionally to the CCCB, this must be communicated in advance and the CCCB’s principles on the Web (point 2) must be taken into account.

Accounts of collaborating groups/collectives

The CCCB only takes responsibility for the management of the digital communication of own projects produced by the Centre. In the case of the activities of collaborating groups, the CCCB will take on a basic dissemination role (cross-posting of contents and of the group account) through the Centre’s corporate channels. Any online campaign or initiative by a group or collaborator that goes beyond gen-eral dissemination must be consulted with the person responsible for digital communication.

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Languages of communication

The main language for communication by the CCCB via the tools 2.0 is Catalan. However, communication by the CCCB is trilingual (Cat-alan, Spanish and English) and according to the audience that we are addressing, we may use any one of these three languages.

When we disseminate contents, we will use their original source language (Catalan, Span-ish, English or any other language).

Identification

The CCCB’s profiles 2.0 have to be identified with the corporate logo or corresponding graphic image. The profile descriptions and all the contents that we generate and share on the web 2.0 must be identified as CCCB projects (through the logo or alternatively in writing).

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The main criterion to take into account is prior planning: before making use of a tool we should think about what it is that we want to communicate, why and whom we want to address, and what the communication strategy should be.

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CRITERIA FOR EDITORIAL & PUBLICATION ON BLOGS

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The CCCB has two blogs: a corporate blog, VEUS CCCB and another specialising in re-search and cultural innovation, the CCCB LAB blog.

• VEUSCCCB http://www.cccb.org/veus

Is the corporate blog of the Centre de Cul-tura Contemporània de Barcelona. It is a tool for external communication and interaction with the Centre’s public. It represents a new way of communicating the CCCB’s projects to all the voices involved in the Centre’s ac-tivity: workers, collaborators, curators, art-ists, technical team.

• BLOCLAB http://www.cccb.org/lab

Gathers all the knowledge that is generated at the Centre around the mutation of genres and formats and the work methodologies and work processes that may be explained by workers, collaborators, curators, the technical team, etc. It is a tool for external communication to the general – non-spe-cialised – public to make them aware of the Centre’s transformation towards a virtual CCCB (exhibitions, new audiences, partici-pation 2.0, etc.), as well as other objectives explained in the founding document of the CCCB LAB. [03]

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What are the CCCB blogs used for?

• ToaddressthepublicoftheCCCB’sactivi-ties in a closer and more direct way.

• ToexplaintheactivitiesoftheDepartmentsfrom angles different to the usual ones. To show how an activity is made possible and the less visible side of the CCCB.

• Toraiseawarenessregardingaspectsoftheteam’s work that usually remain forgotten once the activity has been programmed or, that for reasons of space or time, end up not being explained.

• TodebatearoundtheCCCB’smainlinesofprogramming.

• To publish chronicles, criticisms and arti-cles and promote future activities.

• Toexplainhowthedepartmentsarechang-ing: what they are doing to innovate and adapt to the new cultural reality of the 21st century.

• Tomakeknownwhotheteamisandwhateach staff member / collaborator / curator does at the CCCB. To chat with the pub-lic and find out what they think about the CCCB’s work and activity.

• Tonetwork:tomeetandcontactpeoplewithinterests and professional activities similar to those of the team and collaborators.

More uses of the blog:

• Recommendations/criticisms/commentaries on articles and news, websites, music, program-ming of our own and other cultural centres, etc.

• Explanation of curious facts and anecdotes. • Summaries of team participation at sector

meetings or congresses.• Proposals for ideas about our department with

regard to receiving feedback from the public.

How should we write in the blog?

• It is necessary to use a direct, simple and clear style. We can allow ourselves a more personal style.

• The texts must preferably be short and have to be accompanied by an image or multi-media resource (video, audio and links) that makes them more attractive.

• In the case that we want to publish a more elaborate background article, it will be pub-lished attached to an introductory (summary) post of the article.

• All the texts of the blogs are signed with the name of the author and a brief description of who the author is. The signature is also recog-nition of the author and a good form of com-municating to the public who is who at the CCCB. Articles can be signed in the name of the department or of a team when texts are more informative, neutral and less personal.

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Do not lose sight of the fact that we represent the CCCB

• VEUSCCCBandCCCBLAB represent thevoice of the institution through the many voices of staff and collaborators. If we make criticisms, we will make use of professional criteria, never personal criteria.

• Our opinions will be connected to theCCCB’s public image, and for this reason we must be coherent with the Centre’s general lines and philosophy.

Restrictions

• Nooffensiveoradvertisingcontentswillbepublished.

• Wewill request permission from our col-leagues before writing about them.

• Wewill avoid publishing texts about pro-gramming that is not yet confirmed.

Attribution

• If we quote another blog or publication, we will always link to the original source (if this is possible)

• If we use photographs that we have found on the web, we will always use credits and link to the author.

On comments

• The author of a post must review it to see if any comments have been received and re-spond to those comments personally in or-der to open up a conversation with readers.

• The editor of the blog will moderate all comments and will not publish comments that are offensive or contain no argument.

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Notes:

03 DocumentfundacionalCCCBLAB[online].Barcelona:

CCCB Lab, November 2009 [Consulted on 8 Septem-

ber 2011].

Available at: www.cccb.org/lab/wp-content/themes/

default/docs/dossier_03_ca.pdf

VEUS CCCB i CCCB LAB representen la veu de la institució a través de les moltes veus de treballadors i col·laboradors.

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RELAYING ACTIVITIES THROUGH TWITTER

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We propose some practical recommendations in case we want to relay an event live using Twitter (=live Twittering). The tips or sugges-tions are organised according to the phase of the activity:

1. Before the activity2. During the activity3. Once the activity is over

BEFORE THE ACTIVITY

• It is necessary to seek documentation on the participant(s): biographies, links to arti-cles, webs, blogs, Twitter accounts, etc. We should also already have all the information that the CCCB has generated around the activity (link to the activity file, interviews, articles in the blogs, etc.) well organised. It is preferable that all this documentation be online to be able to provide links for our followers.

• If the event is a conference, we will try to get hold of a copy in printed format before-hand: To be able to organise following via Twitter and the listing of the main ideas of the conference properly, it is highly recom-mended to have a copy of the text that the speaker will give, in advance. Thus we will also be able to document the broadcast better, searching for links for points of the

conference that may be of interest for the audience to seek further information. Forexample: if the speaker makes a literary reference, it is useful to find that reference on the Internet and post a link for it.

• Compile support material: It is also very important to be able to have access to the PowerPoint file or support material that the speaker will use during the conference. It can serve us as documentation for our own purposes and we can also offer it to our followers as a complement (added value) to the relay.

• Contact with the Twitter community inter-ested in the theme of the activity or in the speaker. Daysbeforetheactivity,wewilldoa search for possible followers of ours on Twitter who are especially interested in the activity theme and contact them personally so that they take part in the live relay and add value to it with their tweets.

• Prior search for tags, basic key words (hashtags)*withwhichwewilldefineouractivity.

*TAGS OR HASHTAGS: Communication via Twitter often functions via tags or hashtags (words preceded by the hash sign #). They are key words that serve as a thematic guide (#politics #democracy), for the classi-fication of contents or quotations that we publish. Hashtags are also used to name an

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event (#kosmopolis #k11) or the key theme of the event (#literature).

Example: Conference by Lipovetsky on “The future of

thecities”withinthedebate“THEFUTURE” The main hashtags could be #city (if we

want to emphasise the theme of the confer-ence) or #lipovetsky (if we want to highlight the author) or #debatefuture (if we want to highlight the global event). Each tweet that we write can include these hashtags (all 3, 2 or 1, according to the space that we have available) which will mean that people from all around the world interested in #city or #lipovetsky #debatefuture, may find and view what we are saying and follow us more easily.

• Once we have decided on the hashtag, it is important to publicise it in the days lead-ing up to and the day itself of the activity. We will have to present the event just before it begins (authors, place, date and starting time) and notify that we will be broadcasting from it live. If a direct address for streaming exists, provide it. We can save this tweet in case it is necessary to remind people of it once more later on (especially the streaming address, which we will have to repeat seve-ral times during the conference in case any followers have joined us later).

Useful tools and tips for preparing a broadcast:

• Ensure that the place where you will be following the activity has a good WiFi connection

- Prepare a document with some general tweets of the conference and all the docu-mentation that you have compiled to pro-vide it during the broadcast.

- Have a URL address shortener handy: Des-pite the Twitter account management pro-grammes such as Hootsuite and Tweetdeck already incorporating the shorten URLs function, it is a good idea to have some tool to hand to make longer URLs shorter.

- Use a social networks management pro-gramme. These tools allow you to manage tweets and hashtags, and visualise and monitor the impact that the broadcast is having.

• MUUTER: http://muuter.com/ A tool that allows you to “silence” Twitter

users. When we broadcast a conference, we produce a large number of tweets one after another, and that may annoy some of our followers who do not want to know about the conference. We can suggest to them, before beginning the broadcast, that they use the Muuter to silence our tweets.

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DURING THE ACTIVITY

• Open document in Word: It is useful to have an open Word document contain-ing the main #hashtags for the conference noted down, as well as other links that we have found during the prior documenta-tion phase. That will allow us to document the broadcast with links and not lose time searching for information.

• What do we explain? TYPE OF RELAYING. As suggested by Zemos98 in the article “Live Twittering” [04], a good formula for relaying conferences/events is to try and accumulate the largest number of interest-ing or representative phrases around what the speaker is saying. The idea is that some-one who is not attending the event physi-cally can follow live or read later about the most prominent contents of a conference. It is important that one single person is dedicated exclusively to the broadcast be-cause it is a job that requires concentration. There is no need to try and follow sentence by sentence what the speaker is saying, but rather make a summary, through tweets, of everything that is occurring (including reac-tions of the audience, questions, etc)

• How do we explain it? STYLE FOR WRIT-ING TWEETS - Zemos98 proposes tweets structured in the following way#hashtag event + @usernamespeaker (if s/he has one) + “Quote inside quotation marks”Another option, if we do not want to do di-rect quotes but summaries of contents is:#hashtag event + #hashtag speaker + text that we want to highlight- We must use a simple, direct and under-standable style. - We are offering a service and have to try to be as serious as possible, without losing sight of the fact that Twitter is a conversa-tional tool and we must be able to respond with the style that our followers expect from us: close, informal and direct.

Tips for broadcasting events via Twitter

• Choose the language that we believewillmost interest our followers – If there is a streaming, the user speaks English and the interpretation is into Catalan, it might be a good idea to write the tweets in Spanish in order to cover all 3 languages.

• Ifwemakeamistake,wecaneraseatweet.If something does not work, it is a good idea to accept that there has been an error (we can write a tweet explaining that the

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streaming is down). At all times, we have to be aware that there are people following us and we may make a mistake and explain it.

• Always be alert to whether anyone hasasked a question or made a complaint. In these cases it is important to listen to what they are saying to us and respond directly.

• Remember the MUUTE (silencer) andstreaming address.

• Whentheroundofquestionsbegins,offerthe possibility for Twitter followers to ask questions via Twitter so that they can be answered. If there is a lot of activity in the real-life round of questions, perhaps it is best not to say anything else on Twitter in case the questions of our followers cannot be attended to.

ONCE THE ACTIVITY IS OVER

• Wehavetoclosethedirectbroadcastwitha goodbye tweet, informing people that the event has finished. If there have been very active followers, who have taken part with questions or haveRETWEETED*our con-tents, it is important to publicly thank them for their contribution.

*RETWEET: On Twitter, when content appears with the initial RT before it, it means that a user has retweeted that content. What it means is that s/he has wanted to repeat the

same phrase/content that you have written because s/he finds it interesting, useful, posi-tive, etc. The RT or retweet is a way of re-disseminating contents, a code that Twitter users have for echoing and valuing contents published by other users. If the tweets are retweeted a lot, that is a good sign! You have managed to please your followers and your message will reach more people!

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Notes:

04 ZEMOS98. Live twittering en [pcdunia] [online].

Zemos98 [Consulted on 8 September 2011].

Available at http://publicaciones.zemos98.org/spip.

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A good formula for relaying conferences/events is to try and accumulate the largest number of interesting or representative phrases around what the speaker is saying.

«The CCCB on the Web» presents the strategy that has been followed up to now by the CCCB to create and share contents, services and par-ticipatory projects on the Internet. This docu-ment is also the starting point for advancing towards new challenges and future lines of work, which will allow the CCCB to be well po-sitioned on the Internet in the second decade of the 21st century. To be able to innovate, we consider that firstly it is necessary to carry out a critical internal reflection on the use and abu-se of social networks and the Internet. Backing a new way of working and of promoting cultu-re in harmony with the current times leads us to define a series of steps to be followed:

• Permanently research the new tools avai-lable in the digital world, paying special attention to those that optimise human, intellectual and creative resources. In this sense, it is necessary to define strategies for the use and application of mobile tech-nologies and videostreaming.

• Make deeper inroads into the culture of participation so that if the project requires it, participation is designed in advance and taking into account that different levels exist that range from interaction to co-creation with users. The communication and disse-mination of the Centre’s activity is a priority objective but the philosophy 2.0 should re-ach all spheres of the CCCB.

• Progressive integration of all the contents generated by the CCCB into a single con-tents portal that will become a place of re-ference and debate for users with regard to contemporary culture. The experience of the user at the CCCB must take into account both the physical environment (building, exhibition space, etc.) and the virtual en-vironment (web, social networks, mobiles, etc.).

• Define a general policy of authors’ rightswith licences that allow a reuse and disse-mination of cultural contents, in so far as is possible.

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the different digital and real-life activities at the CCCB.Definitionofamethodologythatmeasures efficiency and the quality of con-tents and interaction with users.

These objectives have to be achieved with the transversal work of the entire CCCB team and the guidance of the Centre’s systems de-partment. An integrated and global strategy is necessary so that the design, production and creation of virtual projects can be worked on jointly and in a sustainable way with the inte-llectual, human and economic resources that we have in house.

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An integrated and global strategy is necessary so that the design, production and creation of virtual projects can be worked on jointly and in a sustainable way.