Published 30 March 201230 March 2012 · Main Posts Meanland: Developing online audiences Lisa Dempster Lisa Dempster, Director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, joins Meanland online (and at great expense) from the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair with some great advice on how an arts organisation might best become an online digital hub for the community it serves. Very briefly below are the five key points Lisa covers in her discussion, but if you’d rather hear and see Lisa talk than read a list go right ahead and hit that big ol’ play button on the video below. 1. Bring your audience together 2. Encourage and facilitate discussion 3. Get to know your audience and introduce them to each other 4. Create meaningful events where your audience can participate as experts 5. Digital engagement doesn’t just happen online Lisa Dempster Lisa Dempster is the Director of the Emerging Writers' Festival, and creator and Director of its EWFonline stream of online literary programming. Lisa is a professional writer and editor. Her titles include the travel narrative Neon Pilgrim and vegetarian review book The Australian Veg Food Guide. As the publisher at Vignette Press she created the successful sub-cultural journal the Sex and Death Mooks. More by Lisa Dempster › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.