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Klout Crowns Bieber “King”, and Rihanna a “Thought Leader”
I swear, there must be hundreds of sites that claim to rank social media effectiveness based on social metric-driven algorithms now. It’s a challenge to keep track. Klout is one of the bigger ones basing its influence score (0 to 100) on Facebook and Twitter presence and influence. Klout’s blog just posted about the the [...]
Google Guitar Logo App: A GarageBand Killer??
No, but a neato app nonetheless. Google continues it’s oh-so-amusing trend of messing with its logo on special occasions. Today’s celebrates the great Les Paul — a mouse-playable, recordable, and shareable Google Guitar app doodle. You can actually send a recording to someone else, and that person can jam along with you. Granted, there are [...]
3 Ways to Expand Your Fan Base Using Social Media
Today, we have a guest post from Andrew Charlton, owner of Gold Shore Records, that speaks to three ways to help grow your fan base via social media. (Sure, there are 100′s of ways, but I couldn’t possibly ask Andrew to write about all of them in one guest post. So he’ll touch on [...]
Crowdsourced Choir + Phat Video Editing
Eric Whitacre, composer, conductor, lecturer, and model, invited anyone who felt like it to perform one of his choral pieces…via YouTube. 2,000 plus singers from across the globe later, and the Virtual Choir 2.0 video is almost done. Below is a video of Eric at TED presenting a teaser of the project. As good as [...]
Best Facebook Song EVER?
I finally finished the track and accompanying music video for the Mark Zuckerberg Facebook rap, Zuck, On Facebook. Check it out. (If you like it, please pass it on — it’s just in time for Oscars and the Social Network.) The TRACK: The MUSIC VIDEO: Even More Ways to Zuck-Out: Check out the lyrics and background [...]
Need Your Feedback: “Zuck, On Facebook”
As I recently mentioned, I’ve got a DRAFT of Zuck, On Facebook, my Mark Zuckerberg nerdcore rap ditty. It was a fun project, and I don’t really know what to make of it. In a couple days, I’ll release a final version, plus a YOUTUBE VIDEO a few days after that. So, here it is: [...]
New Facebook Rap Almost Finished…
After The Social Network won a Golden Globe for best picture, I was inspired to write a rap (a first for me) from the point of view of Mark Zuckerberg, in response to the movie, the bad press, the law suits, etc etc. The poor 20-something billionaire deserves a voice, after all….so I thought I’d [...]
Why Remixes Help Promote Your Music & Five Tips to Get DJ’s Interested
[Note from Mike: Have you gotten any DJs to remix your song lately? Me neither. Marcus Taylor of TheMusiciansGuide.co.uk smacks us with some key reasons why we should, and some tips on how to do it. Pretty interesting stuff. (His site is actually full of such wisdom, as well as band resources -- worth checking [...]
