Free workshop alert!
Digital Sovereignty - Don't Build Your Castle on Someone Else's Land.
But what does that even mean?
Most of us have built our businesses on platforms we don't own. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok. What happens if they disappeared tomorrow? What happens if you log on to Instagram and everything you've built over the years is just gone?
It's already happened to countless creators around the world - accounts banned, suspended, or just wiped and there was nothing they could do about it. Years of work, audiences they'd spent years building, gone overnight.
The algorithms reward attention, not intention. You end up making content for the platform, not for your audience. And that relationship with your audience isn't really yours - it belongs to Facebook, or Instagram, or whoever you're renting space from.
We'll work through the problem and what to do about it. Bring your questions!
📅 Wednesday 20 May, 10am
📍 Brunswick Design and Innovation Hub (Brudi)
🎟️ Free - details and tickets in the comments
☕ Morning tea afterwards
See you there!
Meeum
We ❤️ digital empowerment
⚡️Digital ⚡️Culture ⚡️Strategy Digital literacy is our business
At Meeum, we believe that understanding technology is for everyone.
Whether you want to know how to update your website or understand the steps to take to rank higher in Google, that knowledge should be accessible to all. We are passionate about teaching foundational digital skills, teaching them well and giving you the confidence to take it where you want. We don’t make things complicated when they can be easily understood. This is a world, a skill-set and an opp
12/03/2026
The arts sector needs better pathways, training and workforce planning, and the people who know that best are the ones working in it.
If you work in the arts, that's you.
We're working with Service and Creative Skills Australia (SaCSA) on a national career mapping project, and we're inviting creatives, technicians and administrators at all career stages to share their experience.
https://sacsa.org.au/get-involved/career-journey-mapping-expressions-of-interest
SaCSA is inviting expressions of interest to participate in our Career Journey Mapping project. This national workforce planning initiative will capture real career experiences to better understand pathways into the sector, career progression, skills development & workforce challenges.
By sharing your journey, you will help inform national workforce planning, policy advice and future support for the arts workforce.
We are seeking people working in creative, technical or administrative roles across:
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Craft and Design
Writing and Publishing
Digital Games
Screen
Music
We welcome people at all career stages, including freelancers, sole traders and employees in metropolitan, regional and remote areas.
What’s involved?
- One-on-one online interview, 45 to 60 minutes, and/or
- Online validation workshop with peers, 60 to 90 minutes
Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis throughout the year.
🔗 Learn more and register today: https://share-ap1.hsforms.com/1bKLX3UskRvOcp1ngj2CIbwnuiee?
02/03/2026
Educators – this means school teachers and home educating families!
Sydney Opera House and Meeum want to hear from you!
We're working with their Digital Creative Learning team and gathering perspectives from teachers, home educators, and anyone who works with digital learning resources.
It takes about two minutes and your response will be useful whether you use their programs regularly or have never used them at all.
Survey link in first comment.
[Image description: An aerial view of the Sydney Opera House.]
02/02/2026
Absolutely astounding show from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds over the weekend.
07/12/2025
We’re proud to have built the website for 20 Things Men Can Do to Challenge Patriarchal Attitudes and Practices - a resource developed by the Continuing Conversations with Men About Violence Against Women working group.
The project launched in late November as part of the Merri-bek City Council Voices for Change forum, which brought community members together to imagine a future without gendered violence.
We’re grateful to have supported this work, not just technically, but because the message matters.
You can explore the resource at https://20thingsmencando.com.au/
26/11/2025
AusMusic T-shirt Day has arrived, and it’s basically our Met Gala at Meeum HQ.
Opening the runway, Elyse is serving an ORIGINAL early-90s “I Love Ratcat ” tee. A true vintage masterpiece that refuses to age and absolutely steals the spotlight.
Following in dramatic fashion, Sam is stepping out in a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds shirt from the 2013 Push the Sky Away tour, giving brooding rock-chic energy and timeless Australian iconography.
Also, turns out taking a selfie that captures both your face, and the full T-shirt is surprisingly difficult, but we persevered for the sake of Australian music.
Happy AusMusic T-shirt Day, friends. Strike a pose, support your favourite artists, and wear your nostalgia with pride.
Support Act
It’s AusMusic Month, so it’s time to Ausify Your Algorithm 🎧
That means streaming Aussie artists, liking their posts, saving their tracks, and commenting like mad.
💥 Here are some of the standout Australian acts we caught at SXSW Sydney and a few at SXSW Austin too...
Selve (Gold Coast) – yep, bought the tee
Charlie Ivan Band (NT) – Goanna meets something totally its own
Stella Bridie (Melbourne) – saw her in Austin and Sydney, 10/10
Lucy Sugerman (Canberra) – lovely and cool
Lady Lyon – POW!
Swapmeet (Adelaide) – multi-talented and genre-jumping
Letters to Lions (Sydney) – ROCK!
dust (Newcastle) – awesome.
BOCCE – didn’t see live but haven’t stopped streaming
👕 AusMusic T-Shirt Day is 27 November!
Wear your favourite Aussie band tee, festival merch or even your go-to record store shirt. Or do like we’re doing and rock one every day this month.
🧠 Remember: every play, save, follow and comment helps. Let’s train the algorithm to deliver more of what we love!
👇 Tell us who you’re listening to! Emerging, legendary, even New Zealanders (maybe).
📣 Our final public workshop for the year is coming up!
🖥 How to Plan a Website
🗓 Wednesday 19 November
📍 Merri-bek City Council, Coburg
🎟 Free to attend (registration link in comments)
Whether you're building your first site or giving an old one a refresh, this workshop covers the practical stuff that makes a real difference. We’ll talk about:
• Why having a website still matters
• UX, SEO and accessibility (made simple)
• Planning pages, content and navigation that actually works
• Choosing the right platform – WordPress? Squarespace? Shopify?
• How to test your site properly and keep improving it
It's hands-on, beginner-friendly, and full of useful tips you can apply straight away.
Come along, ask questions, and we’ll chat about websites!
Thanks very much to Business Merri-bek for putting on the workshop!
G’day creatives, small business owners, and sole traders 👋
Next Wednesday 12 November, we're running a free one-hour workshop at BRUDI in Brunswick all about getting your LinkedIn presence sorted.
This isn’t about becoming a LinkedIn influencer.
It’s about understanding how LinkedIn fits into your digital strategy, especially if you’re in the creative industries or just starting to get your online presence together.
Some of what we’ll cover:
✨ How to set up and optimise your LinkedIn profile
✨ What to actually post (and what not to)
✨ The difference between business and personal profiles
✨ And a bit about digital sovereignty: why everything should connect back to your website
It’s relaxed, practical, and designed for real humans who want to make the most of LinkedIn without having to live on it.
📍 BRUDI (Brunswick Design & Innovation Hub)
🕦 11:30am Wednesday 12 November
💸 Free
🔗 Link to tickets in the first comment
22/10/2025
Today is ! A new national giving day for the arts is TODAY Thursday 23 Oct 2025!
It's a national public movement set up by Creative Australia that celebrates and elevates the role of the arts in Australian life.
Your opportunity to take part is to find the arts orgs in your life that you love and cherish, and donate to them today.
Get into it!
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
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