the world of internet media

I feel that all of the different internet and social media leading the world of self promotion and networking are overwhelming. For one, Facebook MURDERED Myspace along time ago in terms of popularity, relevance, function and any category of media you want to share with the world to the point where myspace is obsolete. My hat goes off to the people who capitalized on the new trend and got famous off of myspace exposure and buzz like Soulja Boy, drake, Colby Callet and many others. Don't get me wrong Facebook and myspace are effective tools for social networking but its hard to keep up with the constant change of whats hot or relevant and all the different sites like twitter and blogging. I like the idea of having one website for everything so I don't have to go down the long list of all the different places you can check me out. I want to be able to say "heres my website everything is there." I think the online portfolio with david lewis is an excellent source for that structure and I plan to take full advantage of it. However, Facebook seems to  have all the capabilities that the McNnally profile does and everybody is already on Facebook. you can post videos, pictures, music, messages (blogs) pretty much tweet by updating your status, promote shows and events and even start fan groups. If you put enough effort into having a professional Facebook, you have all the social networks like myspace, twitter, you tube, and your own domain name on the same free site. 


My favorite part of Kareem's presentation was when he had us google ourselves to see what the top hits are for our name or our band were. When I searched my self I wasn't anywhere, but when I searched my band Lazlo Supreme the entire page was filled with our content: images videos and links which is great. our name is very original and it feels good to know that were not hard to find. I like how he explained that the key words for googles top spots are internet real estate and people pay for key words and my band has the prime real estate. Kareem had a lot of interesting sites that can be beneficial for a band or artist but the one that stuck out most to me was www.kickstarter.com where you can set-up an online fundraiser for band projects like touring or recording. It's an effective way to promote yourself and offer prizes/rewards for supporters of your cause and increase the reward depending on how much money they donate. Brilliant!


here are some popular media sharing sites that are useful for musicians and artists

• Photography and art sharing: deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr, BetweenCreation
• Video sharing: sevenload, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Nico Nico Douga, Openfilm, TubeMogul
• Live casting: Livestream, OpenCU, Skype, Stickam, Ustream
• Music and audio sharing: ccMixter, Pandora Radio, Last.fm, MySpace Music, ReverbNation.com, ShareTheMusic, The Hype Machine
• Presentation sharing: scribd, SlideShare
• Blogs: Blogger, ExpressionEngine, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, Vox, WordPress, Xanga
• Social networking: ASmallWorld,Cyworld, Facebook, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Tagged, XING