Archive for the ‘Social Media and Music’ Category

Following on from my video blog on how musicians should be using Twitter, I thought it would be interesting to compare the four big boys - who you might expect would be pretty damn good at using Twitter, wouldn't you? Well one of them is that's for sure. (more...)...

First of all, a litte shout out to Henry Cook for pointing TFAT out to me, thanks buddy! For those of you who haven't seen this already, Tweet for a track (or #TFAT) is a new website that allows you to set up a simple viral music campaign using Twitter. In fact the concept is so simple that they've summed it up in just four steps: (more...)...

So it's a week until Valentines Day and I thought I would treat my blog readers, Facebook friends and Twitter followers to a chance to win a prize that might just make Valentines day 2010 that little bit extra special. We're giving away some ASOS clothes vouchers or a pair of free tickets to a gig of your choice! Oh, and while we're at it we're throwing in 15 e-copies of The Musician’s Guide to World Domination to 15 lucky runner-ups!...

Here goes my video blogging virginity.. After reading the comments and feedback on my 5 tips for Musicians who don't get Twitter post I decided that I probably need to do a follow up, and instead of trying to write an essay sized explanation I thought I would have a go at explaining a few of my points in a video blog, so here it is! (more...)...

If you’ve still not got an account on one of the social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Mixx, Stumbleupon or Digg then… well just get with the times, musician. The reasons why are numerous but for this blog post I’m just going to  stick with eight reasons for why you should be a part of Reddit, which is my personal favourite social book marking site for music related content as the people who use Reddit are generally a little bit...

Flickr, the Yahoo! owned photo sharing website has become the most dominant photo sharing website on the internet, with the bulk of its members being a part of the 'artistic photographer community' - whos photos blend style, elegance, and interest seemlessly. But there is another reason why Flickr is so popular - it's not cluttered up, allowing your photos to appear more often in higher positions. Now for those of you who haven't clicked on to...