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[This post was originally posted as a comment on my "What Makes Your Music Interesting?", but was far too wonderful, and involved, to leave as a comment. So please do read the other post first, and Jennifer's earlier comments. Jennifer Moore is, as I said in the comments there, the first person I ever saw [...]

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I’ve been getting WAY too many ‘follows’ on Twitter of late from musicians who really don’t get it. So here’s my Top Tips For Musicians On Twitter. You may want to start with my Best Practices In Social Media post, or just jump straight in here.

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I’ve just spent a most enjoyable few hours of the last couple of days removing over 90% of my Myspace ‘Friends’. By ‘removing’, I just mean from my list of myspace friends, not anything more sinister!
My reasoning was fairly simple - with just over 8000 friends, I was finding Myspace to be completely unusable. I [...]

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Weeks and weeks ago, I was ‘tagged’ by the very lovely and talented Ben Ellis of RedCatCo, in a blog-meme about best practices in social media. It’s a great subject, because with social media stuff being as young as it is, we’re not as clued up on how to ‘use’ it as we are with [...]

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OK, I promised a greenbelt round-up, and that’s still on the way, but first (this is backwards, I know) some thoughts on how video worked for us at Greenbelt. By ‘us’, I mean the social media monkeys that were trying to get Greenbelt’s web-presence away from just being a static website into something a little [...]

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So our internets at home is down. Currently jacking wireless from some thankfully un-security-conscious neighbour, while I delete 150 THOUSAND (YES, THOUSAND) emails off my server. Some spamming bastard has cloned at least one of my domain names, and I’ve got 150,000 replies. Brought my email server to its knees, not surprisingly.
I’m going to [...]

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Thanks so much to all of you who took part in the great Twitter-buzzin’ experiment! It was firstly a whole lot of fun and the most obvious traceable statistic is that it the number of unique visitors to my blog and the wordpress part of my site more than doubled, and unlike most traffic spikes, [...]

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I’ve spent a lot of time considering how to filter information, get good information, and cut back on pointless information, but haven’t thus far said (or thought) all that much about what we do with it once we get it.
And that is clearly key. Information requires processing as well as ‘managing’ - it might require [...]

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Here’s a load of more general twitter tips, based on my observation of what goes on on there, and in no small part based on the things I’ve got wrong, and the twittering faux-pas I still make, but designed to help us use Twitter as part of a well-managed information filter… (I’ll blog about something [...]

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OK, let’s get practical about the use of Twitter for musicians.
Here’s a list of possible uses, that I’ll then break down (in no particular order of significance)

spreading rumours
publishing gig dates
inviting discussion
interaction with fans
promoting friends
developing a brand
personalising your website
keeping your site updated
proliferating info to a lot of sites
integrating with other social networks
keeping up with the interests [...]

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