If there's one thing that I've found most frustrating about having an online presence as an artist, it's the sheer chaos surrounding the environment of social networking, band profile sites, blogs, facebook, myspace, imeem bebo, garageband, ilike and the list goes on and on...
Yesterday, Digital Music News reported that MySpace is going to make "profiles" portable. What this means to the artist is that instead of having to update your photos, blog, bio, and video across 15 websites or more, you can do it once and it will show up on whatever social networking sites you might choose to put them on.
This is pretty profound and what I think will be the way to go in the future.
At the SF Music Tech conference yesterday, I heard Tim Westergren, the head of Pandora
online radio suggest that bands should actually add an extra band member whose sole job is to manage and handle your web presence. Theoretically this sort of job falls into what a label or manager would traditionally do. But we don't live in traditional times anymore...
And the web presence is hugely important. Perhaps music managers will start adding these types of team members to their teams, if they haven't already. And if you're looking to get a start in the music business as a young internet-savvy person, then that's certainly an opening you could position yourself with.
But I give props to myspace for getting the jump on this "profile portability." Anything that makes life easier on artists in this crazy new music business is a good thing.
Yesterday, Digital Music News reported that MySpace is going to make "profiles" portable. What this means to the artist is that instead of having to update your photos, blog, bio, and video across 15 websites or more, you can do it once and it will show up on whatever social networking sites you might choose to put them on.
This is pretty profound and what I think will be the way to go in the future.
At the SF Music Tech conference yesterday, I heard Tim Westergren, the head of Pandora
online radio suggest that bands should actually add an extra band member whose sole job is to manage and handle your web presence. Theoretically this sort of job falls into what a label or manager would traditionally do. But we don't live in traditional times anymore...
And the web presence is hugely important. Perhaps music managers will start adding these types of team members to their teams, if they haven't already. And if you're looking to get a start in the music business as a young internet-savvy person, then that's certainly an opening you could position yourself with.
But I give props to myspace for getting the jump on this "profile portability." Anything that makes life easier on artists in this crazy new music business is a good thing.
1 comment:
That rocks the free world, if that happens, ahh...more time to write new songs and ,god forbid, concentrate on whats really important, the music!!
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