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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 music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.
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MySpace, launched in 2004, allows anyone aged 14 and over to create a personal profile. Unlike other social networking sites, MySpace allows users to personalize their profiles by entering HTML into certain areas on their pages, thus displaying video or flash content instead of text. This format is especially useful to musicians, who can post full songs as well as videos and an events calendar. Users may also customize the colors, backgrounds, and fonts on their profiles through the use of CSS (cascading style sheets).
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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 Facebook profile for an artist, band, brand, or business. Users can add themselves as "fans" of an artist or business, write on an artist/business profile's "Wall," upload photos, and join other fans in discussion groups.
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Life's a Pitch 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 audience development? Boring artists? Greedy managers? Overstretched marketing departments? We're beyond debating who owns the problem. Let's fix this thing.
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Amanda Ameer left her position as Publicity Manager at IMG Artists in June 2007 to start First Chair Promotion. She currently represents Hilary Hahn, Gabriel Kahane, David Lang, Eric Owens, Michael Gordon, Hélène Grimaud, Sondra Radvanovsky, Julia Wolfe, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and serves as a consultant to Chamber Music America.
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Amanda Ameer left her position as Publicity Manager at IMG Artists in June 2007 to start First Chair Promotion. She currently represents Hilary Hahn, Gabriel Kahane, David Lang, Eric Owens, Michael Gordon, Hélène Grimaud, Sondra Radvanovsky, Julia Wolfe, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and serves as a consultant to Chamber Music America.
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Contact Click here to send an email. more
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Twitter I gave in and answered the siren call of Twitter. Click the button to follow:
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Now Play It
This site has musicians teaching viewers how to play their most popular songs on the guitar via downloadable video. more
This site has musicians teaching viewers how to play their most popular songs on the guitar via downloadable video.
MOMA - Eye on Europe
This microsite for one of MOMA's 2006 exhibitions is a(n extreme) lesson in what can be done digitally for special projects (world premieres?).
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This microsite for one of MOMA's 2006 exhibitions is a(n extreme) lesson in what can be done digitally for special projects (world premieres?).
The Metropolitan Opera
Sometimes, when the (performing arts) world gets me down, I go to The Met's website and feel better about it all.
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Sometimes, when the (performing arts) world gets me down, I go to The Met's website and feel better about it all.
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