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Best Practices In Social Media.

November 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Geek · Managing Information Streams · tips for musicians

Last.fm-buzzing - day one results + free stuff :)

June 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

OK, one day into the last.fm buzzing experiment, and the first thing that’s clear is that this is going to take a little longer. Twitter buzzing takes a maximum of 20 seconds beyond reading the blog post. You find a link, you twurl it, you tweet it. Simple As.
I did, however, have twice as […]

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Twitter-Buzzin’ - some early results…

June 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Geek · Managing Information Streams · Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians

The great “Twitter-Buzz experiment”!

June 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

OK, here’s the plan - I’m interested to see how much of a buzz a modest number of twitter-followers can create about a particular site/service/artist/whatever, so I’m running a competition, in which y’all get to come up with whatever ideas you like to send your twitter-readers back to my site, or to my videos on […]

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Tags: Geek · Music News · Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians

Seesmic goes celeb crazy

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Things got very exciting this morning on Seesmic, the video conversation site, as a few of the regular posters got to interview some MASSIVE cinema celebs at the Cannes film festival… Something v. interesting occured, but as this is a post about seesmic, I think I’ll use seesmic to comment on it - and you […]

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Tags: Geek · film/tv

Get in touch

May 12th, 2008 · Comments Off

If you’ve got a music related question, those are definitely best dealt with in The discussion forum.
If you’re wanting to organise a gig, or find out about bass lessons, college lectures, or hire me for a project, you can email me via the form below, and I’ll endeavour to get back to you, (if your […]

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Review - Conversations (Loopers Delight)

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

“From the beginning of the first track’s languid fretless, grooving, melodicism it’s a feast of inventive looping. Hey, and it’s so lush and “pretty” that my wife doesn’t even ask me to “please turn it down” — which has got to be some kind of a first for a ‘”looping” CD.
Jez Carr’s spare, pointalistic pianisms […]

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Twitter-peoples: welcome to my e-world, dive right in!

May 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

OK, so you arrived here via my twitter page, and want to know more?
Short version - I’m a musician, music teacher, blogger about musical things and the miscellany of life, web enthusiast and consultant/thinker about Social media and what all this web 2.0 stuff enables us to do that we couldn’t do before, particularly as […]

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friends and inspiration

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Stevie Stuffs
Pillow Mountain Records - My record label
Recycle Collective - My monthly looping/improv gig in London
Steve @ MySpace - My MySpace page.
Steve @ Last.fm - my last.fm artist page.
Steve @ YouTube.com - lots of videos!
Steve @ FaceBook.com - find me on facebook.
Steve @ ReverbNation.com - loads more music to listen to.
Steve @ iLike.com - click […]

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Etiquette for soliciting press-quotes from people…

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been asked a few times lately to give quotes to people to use for promo purposes, so I thought it would be a good time to offer some thoughts on the process. Largely because it’s something I’ve done myself from time to time, and continue to do when the conditions are right…
Firstly, it’s worth […]

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Tags: Musing on Music · the future of music · tips for musicians