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I gave in and answered the siren call of Twitter. Click the button to follow: … [Read more...]
Why don't we apply the successful marketing and publicity campaigns we see in our everyday lives to the performing arts? Great ideas are right there, ripe for the emulating. And who's responsible for the wide-reaching problems in ticket sales and … [Read More...]
Jan 18-22, 2010: I hosted a virtual panel on when and how artists, managers, journalists, presenters and publicists single out musicians for being "special" in their promotion and career-building efforts. Participants included musician, pianist … [Read More...]
Now Play ItThis site has musicians teaching viewers how to play their most popular songs on the guitar via downloadable video. … [Read More...]
MOMA - Eye on EuropeThis microsite for one of MOMA's 2006 exhibitions is a(n extreme) lesson in what can be done digitally for special projects (world premieres?). … [Read More...]
SpoonThis website makes me feel impossibly uncool, and I love it for that very reason. … [Read More...]
The Metropolitan OperaSometimes, when the (performing arts) world gets me down, I go to The Met's website and feel better about it all. … [Read More...]
RSS is an acronym for "RDF Site Summary," or "Rich Site Summary." RSS is a family of XML-based Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. … [Read More...]
YouTube, created in 2005, is a free video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. YouTube uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and … [Read More...]
Wikipedia, created in 2001, is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information. Articles are written collaboratively by … [Read More...]
Facebook, launched in 2004, is now the largest social networking website in the United States, overtaking MySpace in 2009. The free-access website allows users to easily connect and interact with other people, and it is now also possible to create a … [Read More...]
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