AUDITIONS for Terry Pratchett's CARPE JUGULUM
Tue, 11 Mar 2003, 09:35 amWalter Plinge15 posts in thread
AUDITIONS for Terry Pratchett's CARPE JUGULUM
Tue, 11 Mar 2003, 09:35 amAUDITIONS are now available to be booked for ARENA's next Community Theatre production, Terry Pratchett's CARPE JUGULUM.
See the AUDITIONS section of this website or phone 9362 4080.
See the AUDITIONS section of this website or phone 9362 4080.
Re: Seized by the Throat
Sat, 15 Mar 2003, 05:24 amARENA Arts & Entertainment Inc wrote:
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> Oh dear, try something different and you get dumped on.
G'day Simon
(...same Simon James who was at WAIT/Curtin around 86-87? Were we both in an upstairs production by Andrew Creagh?)
Thanks for your well-thought response. Clearly, as I had surmised, you had admirable intentions.
There was certainly nothing personal in my ranting or raving, toward you or Arena; I'm quite impartial regarding who I rant & rave about (ie: everybody). And given the title of Pratchett's play, I thought bursting a large blood vessel would be deemed appropriate behaviour..!
I also wasn't dumping on you for trying something different, my gripe was purely about the annoying attributes of spam on a website such as this. Not my 'rules', but my reaction; and I'm aware that others share that reaction (someone suggested that the next poll ought to canvass appropriate punishments for those who carpet-bomb their posts unnecessarily across the board) ...although I do concede we may not be the majority or necessarily 'right' in that view.
On the topic of polls, the recent Publicity Poll didn't actually refer to the usefulness of this site; so while it's fair for you to insinuate we may need a reality check on how importantly we regard this site, I think you made some incorrect inferrals. It was just the 'What's On' section that ranked low compared to high-ranking options like posters, flyers, word of mouth etc. The site itself didn't really take a battering (for instance, some of the discussions in forums here must also count as word of mouth, which ranked pretty high...) but I guess statistics like that are free to be interpreted.
The poll was up for two weeks, which (based on a previous poll) is the preferred length of time before changing topics. Not even sure that I agree it was 'generating a lot of shared publicity ideas' ...the ideas were pre-generated from two contributor's suggestions and then my editorialising; all the poll does is reflect some limited opinion on the priority of those ideas.
There was some forum discussion on the topic; this had waned long before the poll was removed. (If you feel the need to refer back to the poll, click polls/view polls at the top of this page).
Re: Deleting posts - Yes, that's possibly a desirable function to incorporate. But actually, I don't know of any bulletin boards anywhere that actually have that facility. So it means you've got to be responsible with what you post (and I've certainly made plenty of un-retractable blunders). This site does have a 'preview' function, which is more than most.
I'm afraid I still don't think your explanation about advertising the auditions here as well as via newsletter, email, radio, etc. quite justifies the flooding of this website with a single message. You want your auditionees to respond as to how they first heard about auditions...say someone first read it in your newsletter - would it effect their answer if you'd sent six or seven identical newsletters to their address? Or is that just annoying overkill?
Your intention to guage the efficient use of your resources doesn't correlate to whether you post one message or many on this site. That was a bit of a red herring argument. The only question we're disagreeing on here is whether or not posting on all message boards attracts significantly more readers than it annoys.
Simon, you've justified your intentions well, and you can certainly be forgiven for your experimenting. I perhaps wouldn't have responded to all your points, except that you made it clear that Arena is keen to receive feedback on its publicity efforts...which I assume includes the use of this site. So surely my feedback & criticism about that is exactly what you called for in the first place. I'm sorry you consider that being dumped on.
And hey, it's only my opinion.
Cheers,
Craig
PS: 125 shows over 14 years is very prolific. Congratulations on such a wealth of output and experience.
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> Oh dear, try something different and you get dumped on.
G'day Simon
(...same Simon James who was at WAIT/Curtin around 86-87? Were we both in an upstairs production by Andrew Creagh?)
Thanks for your well-thought response. Clearly, as I had surmised, you had admirable intentions.
There was certainly nothing personal in my ranting or raving, toward you or Arena; I'm quite impartial regarding who I rant & rave about (ie: everybody). And given the title of Pratchett's play, I thought bursting a large blood vessel would be deemed appropriate behaviour..!
I also wasn't dumping on you for trying something different, my gripe was purely about the annoying attributes of spam on a website such as this. Not my 'rules', but my reaction; and I'm aware that others share that reaction (someone suggested that the next poll ought to canvass appropriate punishments for those who carpet-bomb their posts unnecessarily across the board) ...although I do concede we may not be the majority or necessarily 'right' in that view.
On the topic of polls, the recent Publicity Poll didn't actually refer to the usefulness of this site; so while it's fair for you to insinuate we may need a reality check on how importantly we regard this site, I think you made some incorrect inferrals. It was just the 'What's On' section that ranked low compared to high-ranking options like posters, flyers, word of mouth etc. The site itself didn't really take a battering (for instance, some of the discussions in forums here must also count as word of mouth, which ranked pretty high...) but I guess statistics like that are free to be interpreted.
The poll was up for two weeks, which (based on a previous poll) is the preferred length of time before changing topics. Not even sure that I agree it was 'generating a lot of shared publicity ideas' ...the ideas were pre-generated from two contributor's suggestions and then my editorialising; all the poll does is reflect some limited opinion on the priority of those ideas.
There was some forum discussion on the topic; this had waned long before the poll was removed. (If you feel the need to refer back to the poll, click polls/view polls at the top of this page).
Re: Deleting posts - Yes, that's possibly a desirable function to incorporate. But actually, I don't know of any bulletin boards anywhere that actually have that facility. So it means you've got to be responsible with what you post (and I've certainly made plenty of un-retractable blunders). This site does have a 'preview' function, which is more than most.
I'm afraid I still don't think your explanation about advertising the auditions here as well as via newsletter, email, radio, etc. quite justifies the flooding of this website with a single message. You want your auditionees to respond as to how they first heard about auditions...say someone first read it in your newsletter - would it effect their answer if you'd sent six or seven identical newsletters to their address? Or is that just annoying overkill?
Your intention to guage the efficient use of your resources doesn't correlate to whether you post one message or many on this site. That was a bit of a red herring argument. The only question we're disagreeing on here is whether or not posting on all message boards attracts significantly more readers than it annoys.
Simon, you've justified your intentions well, and you can certainly be forgiven for your experimenting. I perhaps wouldn't have responded to all your points, except that you made it clear that Arena is keen to receive feedback on its publicity efforts...which I assume includes the use of this site. So surely my feedback & criticism about that is exactly what you called for in the first place. I'm sorry you consider that being dumped on.
And hey, it's only my opinion.
Cheers,
Craig
PS: 125 shows over 14 years is very prolific. Congratulations on such a wealth of output and experience.
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