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Below are some tools you can take advantage of in your day-to-day activities. Enjoy, and check back frequently for updates.
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On thesixtyone, new artists make music and listeners decide what's good. Find your new favorite song in less than five minutes a day. thesixtyone tracks the web's musical obsessions in real time, delivering the best to your doorstep.
Visit Website: http://www.thesixtyone.com
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PLUGOLA, a social music community and marketplace for indie music artists and their fans.
- Membership is FREE! All genres welcome!
- 100% Full Control
- Non-exclusive, no obligations.
- Set your own prices and affiliate commissions.
- Fun and interactive for music fans.
- No subscription or service fees.
- Detailed statistics.
- Customizable, user-friendly profiles.
- On/Offline promotional social tools.
- Embeddable media player/widget.
...and a bunch more!
Visit Website: http://www.plugo.la/
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Ning is the social platform for the world's interests and passions online. Millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions, and meet new people around shared pursuits.
So easy, it just works: In less than 30 seconds, get your Ning Network up and running. Then deliver a compelling social experience to millions of people.
Member engagement: Connect people around your interest or passion. Drive deeper engagement than you’d get on a blog or website, and tap into member data.
Make it your own: Fully integrate your brand and wield complete visual control. Use your own domain and establish a social identity that amplifies your brand.
Visit Website: http://www.ning.com
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OurStage cuts through the overgrowth of commercial music and lets you access what you really want. Untapped talent. Big opportunities. A wider playing field that puts you in control.
We’re not just another music-centric social networking site. The OurStage community is made up of undiscovered artists hungry for exposure, music lovers with insatiable appetites and industry professionals committed to bringing incredible talent to the masses. Together, we’ve created something larger than the sum of its parts – a collaborative environment where truly great artists get discovered.
We partner with industry professionals to leverage priceless opportunities for our artists. We provide an intuitive platform that lets the stars of tomorrow connect directly with fans. And we foster an ongoing conversation between the musician, the music lover and the people who open doors.
This is OurStage. Come play.
Visit Website: http://www.ourstage.com
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TweetDeck is the leading browser for the real-time and social web, allowing users to connect with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.
TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up-to-date.
Visit Website: http://www.tweetdeck.com |
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Bebo provides an open, engaging, and fun environment that empowers a new generation to discover, connect and express themselves.
Visit Website: http://www.bebo.com
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SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.
Visit Website: http://www.soundcloud.com
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Mozes connects people to what they love from their mobile phones. Mozes enables any marketer to easily build and manage interactive mobile CRM campaigns that integrate with the web and live events, print and broadcast media. Mozes powers thousands of mobile campaigns that connect millions of fans to their favorite bands, brands, sports teams, causes and more.
Mozes guarantees consumers no hidden costs, as well as a permission-based and spam-free mobile experience. This approach builds trust, attracts more customers, increases participation and loyalty, which results in more effective marketing campaigns.
Visit Website: http://www.mozes.com
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ArtistData allows you to enter information once, and have it distributed across many different sites.
Here's how it works:
1. Sign up for an ArtistData account and confirm your account.
2. We lead you through a login process where you import your information and immediately resync it out to other profiles of your choosing.
3. You log into the ArtistData Dashboard and see what we're doing by looking at our Activity List. We list every time we update a profile or submit a tour date for you.
4. We tell you how we've helped. Right from the home screen, you can see a historical count of what sites we've updated and how often. Just take a quick look at how much time we've saved you!
5. Start managing data through ArtistData. Now when you enter a tour date, it will go directly to all these destination sites.
6. With all the time you saved go do something more useful and move your career forward.
Visit Website: http://www.artistdata.com
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Professional Twitter client.
HootSuite is the professional Twitter client. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success.
Visit Website: http://www.hootsuite.com
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ArtistForce is a web-based business platform and professional community designed to help Agents and Managers successfully manage and expand their business.
They offer web-based tools you can use every day to communicate, manage relationships, negotiate offers, transact business, track bookings and share documents with your professional community of Venues, Promoters, Talent Buyers, and Performing Artists.
Visit Website: http://www.artistforce.com
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GigThing is a flexible gig calendar system specifically built for the entertainment industry. Its the perfect solution to manage gigs and simplify the contact between artists, managers and agents.
GigThing is developed and owned by Magnus Enarsson and Jonas Ljung, two Swedish entrepreneurs. Magnus is a web business developer and programmer and Jonas is a stand-up comedian and magician.
Visit Website: http://www.gigthing.com
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Promotional sprouts are ideal for musicians, politicans, non-profits or any person or organization that has fans and wants to provide them with a chunk of Web content that can be virally spread. Sprouts can be edited at any time, and all copies in circulation are instantly updated, so your fans can be kept engaged and informed with fresh content.
Visit Website: http://sproutbuilder.com
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Eventbrite is the best way to publish, promote and sell-out your next event. Our service will save you time, money, and keep you organized to ensure your event is a success.
- Increase attendance
- Collect credit card payments online
- Begin selling in minutes
- Track sales and more
Vist Website: http://www.eventbrite.com
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WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Vist Websites: http://www.wordpress.com or http://www.wordpress.org
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The Virtual Publicist is a comprehensive updated music press list that you can download from your computer. There has never been such an extensive music press list like this made available to indie musicians before now.
If you've ever tried publicizing your music, you know that researching and compiling a list of independent music press contacts is time-consuming and challenging. And it's even harder to keep that list updated and accurate, because the key contacts change frequently.
The Virtual Publicist experts, take care of that. You can send your press kits with confidence - and have more time to make music.
Vist Website: http://www.thevirtualpublicist.com
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Skype is internet communications. Skype is software that lets you use your computer and internet connection to communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world.
Skype is a free Voip (voice over internet protocol) solution, use requires the ability to record and playback audio. The program and more information can be had at http://www. skype .com/. Add ons such as the ability to call out and in to POTS (standard phone lines) and soft answering machines (SAM is an freeware example) make this a versatile method of synchronouse and asynchronous communication. The network is provided by all combined users of the free desktop software application. Skype users can speak to other Skype users for free, call traditional telephone numbers for a fee (SkypeOut), receive calls from traditional phones (SkypeIn), and receive voicemail messages.
Vist Website: http://www.skype.com
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Tumblr is your friendly, free, and terrifically easy tool for creating tumblelogs.
A tumblelog is a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary.
Vist Website: http://www.tumblr.com
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FanBridge is an easy to use email and mobile fan list management solution designed specifically for bands and musicians. Our #1 goal is to provide you with the tools and resources you need to build and manage your fan list like the pro's do.
Vist Website: http://www.fanbridge.com
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Writeboard is a free collaborative (but not real time) text editor, which allows creation of an unlimited number of web-based text documents. Each Writeboard has a separate user name and password, and changes can be monitored via an RSS feed.
Writeboard is a very simple application but supports Diff, allowing users to compare changes made to the document. Writeboard has since been integrated with both Basecamp and Backpack.
Vist Website: http://www.writeboard.com
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Streampad is an Internet audio player.
You can:
- Listen to your own music from anywhere in the world
- Stream concerts from the Internet Archive
- Tune in to great music from around the web
- Create your own playlists and share them on your own site
- See what your friends are listening to
Streampad is a full-featured music application that runs inside a web browser. It is currently being developed by Dan Kantor. Dan was most recently a developer at del.icio.us and has spent time at Yahoo and Microsoft.
Vist Website: http://www.streampad.com
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MP3tunes is a Music Service Provider (MSP) and the home of Oboe, the only personal music locker offering unlimited online storage. With just a couple clicks, Oboe users sync up their own music collections to enjoy through any web browser and a growing number of home entertainment and mobile devices. Oboe is available in an ad-supported Free edition, along with Oboe Premium which permits larger music files, full access to album cover art and full customer support access.
Vist Website: http://www.mp3tunes.com
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Jumpcut.com is a website that provides free video editing and hosting services.
If creating a video and publishing it to the web seems like a challenge, we think you'll find that Jumpcut makes it easy and fun. If you've been wondering what to do with the video you shoot with your snazzy new camera (or your phone), Jumpcut is the perfect place for you to be creative. If video isn't your thing just yet and you just want to make cool slideshows with your pictures, Jumpcut is still the best place.
Finally, a free online location where you can use all your media, create great looking movies and publish to anyone you choose. There's nothing else like it.
Vist Website: http://www.jumpcut.com
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Millions of people risk losing their unprotected, critical data every day. As the amount of unprotected data stored on multiple devices increases, it becomes harder to synchronize and easier to lose. Keeping data secure, synchronized, backed up and available can be expensive and require in-house IT expertise. Whether you are online or offline, working at the office or on the road, Nomadesk allows business teams to secure, sync and share data with no limits or new interface to learn.
Vist Website: http;//www.nomadesk.com
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IMEEM is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote their content, share their tastes, and discover blogs, photos, music and video.
IMEEM is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. Launched in October 2004, the service has both a social network structure as well as a content browsing/filtering structure similar to that of flickr and youtube. It works on an advert based business model, and is therefore free to use.
Vist Website: http://www.imeem.com
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Backpack is a web-based personal information manager. It features a simple web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times. Tagging pages makes it easy to group related pages together.
The application has two main functions: user-created pages which can include text, images, and files etc., and an iCalendar format calendar.
The main features of the user-created pages include to-do lists, inline photo galleries, notes & file attachments, and page sharing. The main features of the calendar include support for iCalendar, email/SMS reminders, color-coding of calendars, and iCalendar sharing.
Vist Website: http://www.backpackit.com
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Use Vimeo to exchange videos with only the people you want to. Vimeo has a bunch of different privacy options so you can choose exactly who can see your videos, and others can do the same. When you join Vimeo, this page becomes your homepage and will fill up with your videos (and the videos you love).
Vimeo is a video-sharing site (owned by Connected Ventures) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding and video downloads, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars.
The main difference between the site and other competing sites such as YouTube is that Vimeo pertains to user-created videos, of a friend and family nature. No pornography, TV shows, music videos, movies or anything not created by the user can be uploaded.
Vist Website: http://www.vimeo.com
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Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, currently three gateway numbers are available: short codes for the USA and Canada and a UK number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Vist Website: http://www.twitter.com
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Revised and Updated 2010 Edition!
