I’m sorry I haven’t been keeping up with my blog. I logged in and to my horror I see that I haven’t written a thing here for two months. Yikes!
Okay, here is the reason – I know that if a person rationalizes, defends, or justifies a position that person is full of sh**. But really I have been ridiculously busy. I write a monthly article for Majestic the newsletter for the Lit.org writing site. http://majestic.lit.org/wordpress/ as well as keeping up with content at my site http://klstoryteller.com
How’s that for excuse making with shameless promotion stuck in?
But here is the real thing and one I am excited about. I’ve been a songwriter/singer/musician/poet for my entire adult life (since 1964) and have been a solo artist, or been in bands, all of that time. When the web became user friendly I used it to promote whatever I was doing. One of the site- types I discovered were the music community sites. In the beginning they only offered mp3 uploads and photo galleries and it worked well enough – if a little tech-difficult. As the technology improved, and got friendlier, the sites became wonderful tools to be seen and heard, Video uploads and players were a plus. I am on a lot of music promotion sites (Google Ken Lehnig) and I will tell you it does help if you are dogged about promoting yourself face to face – and then use your web presence as a credibility card, but often just shows that you are a geek.
So being A guy who has a mental disorder that demands constant busyness I started a new venture ( ’cause I am crazy!! ) With an old friend and fellow songwriter, we decided to put up a new music community site. Songswagger.com
It sounded like a great idea. We researched and purchased the latest software. Then the fun began – we redesigned the look of the site and started testing all the features. A solid month of eight hour days later, because we are mini-geeks and often sat with perspired brow and armpits – staring at a screen that seemed unwilling to reveal the secrets needed to make a particular function work – the site is up. I put my band in as well as my solo stuff and loved the ease in which the functions work.
So now- a couple of songwriter/musician types have put up a site for songwriter/musician types. We are committed to giving artist all they need to be seen, sell their songs, their goods, and themselves. The journey has begun and we will see where it goes – ready for the ride. Come and join us.
www.songswagger.com
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