The Left and The Right Blog

We have a wide variety of skills to offer our clients. We're not just a singular type of company. We have people behind the scenes that are working hard to get things done and to get it done right. People is the most important part of what Left Right Minds offers. Oh, and we also have a few pugs that help out in many ways.

We are a Drupal shop. Drupal is one of the most amazing content management systems currently in the open source market. We use it to do pretty much everything. It is scalable, extensible, flexible, and bends to our will. Every site we develop is built on this solid platform.

We are excited to be a part of the Canadian performing arts community and offer artist management services for a roster of five fabulous and eclectic arts groups. Our artists are Vancouver-based performers who perform locally and tour in British Columbia, Canada and internationally. Combined with our web skills, our solutions are a fully realized experience.

We work with clients over the long term. We don't like to develop solutions and then disappear. We work and plan over for the long haul and create a legacy plan with our clients. For shorter term projects, we provide an intense and complete service to make sure you're up and running quicker and faster.

Working with companies, charities, and festivals excites us. We love to get things done and invite people to come and enjoy the events we help to produce. Getting people together and making sure they are having a good time makes us smile and our clients too.

The Left and The Right Blog

Below are a few of the mentions of things we are doing, what our clients are doing, or anything else we think is important.

February 28th, 2008

Canada Council - last minute consult

The Canada Council Theatre grant for emerging artists are due on March 1. I spent a few hours helping out Cameron MacKenzie, a recent Studio 58 grad, with his first application. He was referred to me by my friend Jennifer Smith, who is the General Manager for Pound of Flesh Theatre. Cameron is planning a fall project with an ad hoc group of artists. He had done an excellent job of the initial draft and already gotten feedback from a number of his peers. We went through the application step-by-step, making sure that all the attachments were included. We reviewed the project description and spent time developing solid project objectives. Then we revised the budget to truly reflect the scope of the project. Best of luck with your application, Cameron!

February 23rd, 2008

A blogger talks about art

This guy named Dave Olson is talking about his art and his blog. He's encouraging the audience to be artists, share your stuff and consider allow collaboration on projects. He wants to have cross-pollination where people work together and distribute their work for free. I wonder what the Canadian Actors Equity would think of these ideas? When will live performance join the Internet revolution?

February 23rd, 2008

Northern Voice 2008 - advertising on your blog?

We're at a session that James Sherrett from Adhack is facilitating. He's looking to the expertise of everyone attending the session and asking who has advertising on their blogs and who doesn't. The question is becoming -- is it a benefit to the readers or a detriment? Yes, the money is great but no one wants to alienate their readers. Someone just said that he uses ads on pages to punish readers who click through from Google searches about Guitar Hero. The person next to me then said that why don't you ask your readers?!?! And a new suggestion is -- here's a tip jar, if you like our content, pay up!

Here are the reasons on the YES side:

non-commercial
contributor
not for readers / only archives
to pay for hosting
salary
money
business
affiliate sales
recommendations
free stuff / beer
right fit
reader tax
karma

Here are the reasons on the NO side:

fear of rejection
clutter
company site
confuse motives
temptation
ugly / aesthetically displeasing
personal
feeling pressure
kids
competitors ads
podcast reviews
neutrality

And then, we're now discussing if the whole blog is actually advertising for you! What do you think???

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