ABSTRACT
New technologies have created issues around copyright and networking which then influence leadership requirements. A positive and inclusive framing of networking regards networks in terms of the likely sharing of resources, knowledge, ideas and expertise. Social media allows informal networking to occur without participants having to leave the domestic or work space. The impact of social media on connecting and the sharing of ideas are immense. It allows formal and informal groups to form, disappear and reform. An environment that supports 'creativity' is often visually unconventional and deliberately encourages social and informal interaction as compared with isolation or formality. F. Colbert argues that entrepreneurialism, leadership and marketing are interconnected in the arts, and that entrepreneurship is critical for an arts organization to stay competitive in the marketplace. The impact of new technology has been instrumental in changing the distribution of arts practice, but it has also had a significant impact on the making of art and the marketing of it.
