PING.FM
I love ping! Why? Because it provides me with the opportunity to update my status on several websites all at once. I can either send an email or text message, or log onto their site and post a status update or mini-blog and they do the rest of the work. It shows up on Twitter, Linked In, Plaxo, MySpace, Reverb Nation etc. If I wanted to, I could also have it show up on my Facebook account, but I’ve chosen not to do that for the following reason. All of those except facebook are my “artist” profiles, and therefore, I keep my status updates on topics that I feel comfortable sharing with people I don’t know. I actually don’t even know who most of the people are who follow me on Twitter, though I suspect most of them want to sell me either porn or pharmaceuticals. Facebook on the other hand is much more personal, and my status updates are often more personal than I feel comfortable just putting “out there”. I still haven't figured out how to connect ping to update the status on our artist page at Facebook, but that's on my list.
Tiny URL dot COM [AND BIT.LY AND OW.LY] I have to put "dotCOM" or else it gets edited when I post this. And apparently you cannot type tiny and url without a space either. boo.
So now you’re on Amazon and iTunes, and you want to link to your pages from your YouTube pages, but they don’t allow html. Yet if you just put a url [http://www.whatever.com] in your text, that becomes its own link. Too bad your Amazon and iTunes urls are 4,563 characters each. That’s where ..-dot-com [or bit.ly, or ow.ly] can be of assistance. You can generate a much shorter alias url to use, and it even allows you the option of creating a custom alias url which is much shorter and easier on the eyes. So you paste in: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_0_17?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=worldwide+groove+corporation&x=0&y=0&s prefix=worldwide+groove+corporation And they allow you to generate http://www.tiny url DOTcom/YOU-Amazon or whatever you type in for the text after the slash. Lovely. This is also helpful in putting a url in your status updates, though some services, like Twitter, automatically generate a shorter url on your behalf.
[Hi all, Ellen here. I've decided to take a very long handout that I created for my college students and break it down into a series of blogs. This is a summary of what I know about promoting yourself and your music online. If you or someone you know is a self released artist who doesn't necessarily have a plan of action after the CDs are manufactured, subscribe to this blog and read the series. I'm breaking it down into bite sized portions. ]
I love ping! Why? Because it provides me with the opportunity to update my status on several websites all at once. I can either send an email or text message, or log onto their site and post a status update or mini-blog and they do the rest of the work. It shows up on Twitter, Linked In, Plaxo, MySpace, Reverb Nation etc. If I wanted to, I could also have it show up on my Facebook account, but I’ve chosen not to do that for the following reason. All of those except facebook are my “artist” profiles, and therefore, I keep my status updates on topics that I feel comfortable sharing with people I don’t know. I actually don’t even know who most of the people are who follow me on Twitter, though I suspect most of them want to sell me either porn or pharmaceuticals. Facebook on the other hand is much more personal, and my status updates are often more personal than I feel comfortable just putting “out there”. I still haven't figured out how to connect ping to update the status on our artist page at Facebook, but that's on my list.
Tiny URL dot COM [AND BIT.LY AND OW.LY] I have to put "dotCOM" or else it gets edited when I post this. And apparently you cannot type tiny and url without a space either. boo.
So now you’re on Amazon and iTunes, and you want to link to your pages from your YouTube pages, but they don’t allow html. Yet if you just put a url [http://www.whatever.com] in your text, that becomes its own link. Too bad your Amazon and iTunes urls are 4,563 characters each. That’s where ..-dot-com [or bit.ly, or ow.ly] can be of assistance. You can generate a much shorter alias url to use, and it even allows you the option of creating a custom alias url which is much shorter and easier on the eyes. So you paste in: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_0_17?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=worldwide+groove+corporation&x=0&y=0&s prefix=worldwide+groove+corporation And they allow you to generate http://www.tiny url DOTcom/YOU-Amazon or whatever you type in for the text after the slash. Lovely. This is also helpful in putting a url in your status updates, though some services, like Twitter, automatically generate a shorter url on your behalf.
[Hi all, Ellen here. I've decided to take a very long handout that I created for my college students and break it down into a series of blogs. This is a summary of what I know about promoting yourself and your music online. If you or someone you know is a self released artist who doesn't necessarily have a plan of action after the CDs are manufactured, subscribe to this blog and read the series. I'm breaking it down into bite sized portions. ]
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