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 20 March 20262 April 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Judith Wright Poetry Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize seeks outstanding poetry from new and emerging writers. This year’s judges, Shastra Deo, Harry Reid and […] 20 March 202620 March 2026 · Main Posts Final results of the 2025 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize Editorial team Established in 2007 and supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize seeks outstanding original short fiction of up to 3000 words themed loosely around the notion […]
