Archive for the ‘E-News’ Category

When is the last time you backed up your data? If your computer was stolen or dropped or a virus hit it……. Nuf said.

I use Mozy to automatically back up my data to an offsite server. I also back up locally to a hard drive, but that wouldn’t help in case of fire or flood. Even a virus could eat away those files.

Mozy offers a free 2 gb account or 4.95/month for unlimited. It only needs a high speed internet connection.

Mozy Unlimited Backup

Do you know what people are saying about you on the internet? Google Alerts will notify you anytime someone posts a blog or review about you so you can keep tabs on what’s being said about you and where your name is being dropped.

Think of Google Alerts as a customized automatic Google Search that delivers the search results to you in your email inbox anytime something new hits the internet.

Google Alerts are also helpful when you’re trying to keep up with certain topics, news, or people.

This is very helpful for musicians to keep track of reviews and places their album is featured.

Nobody Knows Nothin’

(A New Song Benefiting Gulf Aid)

Featuring the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Clint Maedgan plus Threadhead Records artists John Boutté, Paul Sanchez, Susan Cowsill, Craig Klein, Margie Perez and more

Written by: John Boutté, Bill Lynn and Paul Sanchez
Produced by: Ben Jaffe, Bill Lynn and Paul Sanchez

Coming off their successful collaboration with Mos Def and Lenny Kravitz that resulted in the popular Ain’t My Fault recording and video benefiting the organization Gulf Aid , Ben Jaffe, leader of the world famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Bill Lynn, professional fundraiser and master auctioneer, have teamed with singer/songwriters John Boutté and Paul Sanchez to write and produce a fundraising project through Threadhead Records called Nobody Knows Nothin’, also benefiting Gulf Aid.

Tuesday, July 13th, at 12 noon

Join the New Orleans Arts Council online for our latest webinar, Making Money with Your Music: Songs and Recordings. Presented by ELLA Project supervising attorney Ashlye Keaton, this webinar will cover:

      * Maximizing your revenue streams.

     * The importance of owning your music.

     * Making money from digital downloads.

     * Music in film and television.

     * Plus your questions via live chat!

 Making Money with Your Music: Songs and Recordings An Arts Council webinar presented by Ashlye Keaton Tuesday, July 13th at 12 noon For the link to this webinar, please email: gmeneray@artscouncilofneworleans.org

GULF COAST OIL SPILL VOLUNTEER CLEANUP – The Humane Society of Louisiana Gulf Coast Strategic Planning Conference/ Assisting More Animals in Need The Humane Society of Louisiana and its oil spill response program, Operation Here to Help, will be hosting a two-day strategic planning conference from Saturday, August 7th through Sunday, August 8th, called the Gulf Coast Strategic Planning Conference – Assisting Animals in Need.

This important event will feature speakers from BP, the Coast Guard, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and animal rehabilitation groups. There will be individual speakers, a panel discussion, and a strategy-building session. On Sunday, the second day of the conference, conference participants will travel by chartered boats to the high-impact areas, such as the barrier islands in Barataria Bay off Grand Isle.

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Scan your passport, important documents, prescriptions and photos of your instrument and equipment in case they are stolen.

Then email them to someone (you can contact easily by the internet) staying home so that if you lose your documents you can have them emailed to you (or your embassy – or the authorities) to make it easier to get replacements.

If you have a secure file server with your website, you can also upload the files there for retrieval by you. I also read where you can upload the images to a free account on Flickr and then set it as “private” (not sure how secure this is.)

New Orleans Jazz Camp needs volunteers. Below are some of the jobs that need to filled.

Camp will be August 1-6, 2010

Instructor Assistants: Every day we will need a volunteer assigned to each music instructor. The time will be from 9am-5:30pm. Let me know if you will be available for the entire day, just mornings or just afternoons.

Airport Camper Greeters: Need a couple of volunteers to be out at the airport on Sunday August 1st to greet our campers. The time will be from 11am until 5pm.

Most people know that the last digit of a barcode is a “check digit” used by the scanner to check whether it read the barcode correctly. It does this by adding up and multiplying the numbers it gets from the bars. The secret formula for the last digit is: 

DiscRevolt is developing the next version of their technology platform and it should be released in the next 4 weeks or so. This new platform is going to be a huge upgrade and we’re super excited about the prospects. The new platform will still do the same things the old platform does, but it will do them better and will also do much more.