Ariel's Blog Challenge Week 4

Ariel’s Blog Challenge Wk. 4—

Through my online Berklee courses, and Ariel’s book, I have learned about the importance of social networking and blogs. I joined Facebook and LinkedIn some time ago, and more recently joined Twitter. I have almost 400 friends on Facebook—friends, colleagues, and industry personnel. I really enjoy LinkedIn not only for the industry connections, but the group connections. In fact, there are some great articles that are posted at some of those group sites. I also started blogging shortly before Ariel’s blog challenge. I need to improve my blogging—shorter, more concise, and interesting things to say. I would like to start responding/commenting to other bloggers, but time is an issue. I want to be “in” with a few of them so that they might consider blogging about the artists I work with as the artists release new music. I did join one bloggers’ blasts. He is in the UK and is a fan of Gregory Douglass. I still like the good old-fashioned phone calls because I feel like I get to know people better rather than social networking and e-mail. But, I realize that it is important to get out there. The phone calls can come later. In fact, they are. And that’s awesome. I just joined Flickr yesterday and put two photos up. But I have to figure out how to get them into my biz newsletter that is created at my website (hostbaby). Not so easy to do that with this type of website. I like skimming through the tweets at Twitter. I think Grace Potter’s tweets are cool. She says more than just “playing a show at . . . “. I need to check out the many websites that Ariel suggests in her book. Once again, time is an issue. Lastly, I have been holding out to join MySpace. I keep reading that it is dying. The only reason I would join would be to post the artists’ songs, not for social reasons. Any suggestions about that would be appreciated.