A few years ago, I launched the MoneyPit Music Community to provide a place for local bands and aritists to publish their profiles, songs, videos and pictures. Not long afterward, social sites like MySpace sprung up like weeds allowing people and bands to easily create and manage pages and content and reach a wider audience. This was all well and good, and I even supported and promoted the idea, but it didn’t leave much room for small and personal sites - they would just be lost in the sea where everyone surfed.
Then came blogs. And jumping over the whole evolution of blogging, we now have access to sophisticated and free blogging applications and inexpensive or free hosting. While blogs are really meant for blogging, I’m calling them out-of-the-box websites for the rest of us. They are easy to set up, customize and maintain. Case in point - the MoneyPit.
And even more than just having a website, we are now in the world of Web 2.0, syndication, and aggregate content. Just like that. So instead of competing with the MySpaces, Youtubes and Photobuckets, we can now collect and group pertinent content that’s already been published. Other than ease of use, it helps anyone who wants more exposure to be, well, more exposed.
So that’s what this blogsite is about - I have a few pages to basically contain pointers to other places. For example, the Groups and People pages (will) contain maybe a thumbnail photo and short summary, but more important, those pages will link out to your MySpace pages, websites or other internet locales. I also have a nice gig calendar that’s easy to update and maintain. In addition to all that, I may do some actual blogging touching on subjects like music, recording or local event reviews. Special events will be posted as an actual blog post which means it will get sent out in the email newsletter. To get these updates, plus the occasional blog article, enter your email addy in the box to the right and hit the Subscribe button. And, If you’d like to see anything in particular added, feel free to email me by clicking the link under the button.
