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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

Saturday, July 31, 2010, 8-11pm

One Eyed Jack’s (615 Toulouse Street at Chartres)

Admission $25. Doors open at 7pm

All proceeds benefit the Gulf Relief Foundation

“Jazz for the Gulf” will showcase locals Ellis Marsalis, Charmaine Neville, Cindy Scott, Leah Chase, Brian Seeger, and many others. Also on the billing is jazz vocalist and three-time Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson, who has been a staple on Concord Records for years and has released twelve CDs on the label.

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.

Good article by Jonathan Ostrow on Music Think Tank

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.

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: 

How many emails are in your inbox right now? Yes, it’s probably 80% spam, but that leaves 20% that’s not. How many missed opportunities are in there? How many irate people are waiting for your reply?

Every day you wait it gets worse. If you have 400 email messages, do the math – if you spend only one minute reading / answering each email, that would take almost 7 hours! And when you add in the fact that you probably already read some of them but didn’t respond/address it then, you’re doubling your email time. The trick is to deal with emails regularly and completely and immediately.

http://www.airbnb.com/

Do you have an extra room/apartment/house to rent? If you have a spare room to rent out during mardi gras/jazz fest you need to get on this site. I use this site to rent my house in New Orleans during jazz fest and mardi gras. The people I get are wonderful.

Do you need cheap places to rent while traveling / on tour? There are some really great deals on this site. Don’t be fooled by the Airbed in the name - most have real beds!

You want the following specs no matter what program you use:

• File type: mp3
• Bit rate: 192 kbps or 256 kbps
• Be sure your embedded tags include your artist name and song title
• Remove track number from file name

Windows Media Player

Put CD into drive

click on the “Rip” tab

WMP should automatically detect and scan it.

Media Player should then query an online CD information database to figure out album and track information. If it doesn’t find anything, it will ask you for track names and artist name. Be sure it is correct – it will encode the mp3 file with this info.

Free Workshop

Success Planning for Musicians and Bands

How to write a one-page Strategic Action Plan in about 60 minutes.

A quick and easy method to help you focus, prioritize, and plan to succeed.

Presented by Diana Thornton of Crescent Music Services

September 23, 2009

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Location: Tipitina’s Music Office Co-Op, 4040 Tulane Ave., NOLA 70119

Sponsored by Tipitina’s Music Office Co-Op & Crescent Music Services

All registrants who register by September 18 will receive a free Success Planning toolkit.

To Register:

Email mfowler@tipitinas.com

Phone 504-891-0580

Here are some resources I’ve discovered in my internet travels that you might find helpful. I do not endorse any of these sources, and cannot vouch for the validity of their content or characters.

Music Phone Book contains over 75,000 listings from 29 music industry categories and provides detailed contact information for all 50 states including: nearly 10,000 live music clubs and venues, 1,800 + independent and major record label A&R reps, nearly every national touring artist, and thousands of music contacts that can’t be found anywhere else. www.musicphonebook.com

www.startarockband.net

www.artisthousemusic.org

www.knowthemusicbiz.com

On June 4, 2009, the Arts Council’s Cole Bernstein and Gene Meneray sat down with Kristen Evans and Dennis Monn of New Orleans Fringe Inc for a conversation about the successes of the Fringe Festival, plans for future festivals and performances, the state of the performing arts community in New Orleans, and tips and ideas for others looking to create a start-up arts organization.

This conversation is available for free streaming through our website. The conversation lasts roughly 15 minutes, and can be listened to by clicking here.

 
The Arts Council presents it’s latest webinar, this time on Trademark. Join ELLA Project Co-Founder and Supervising Attorney Ashlye Keaton as she discusses the differences between copyright and trademark, in what circumstances you need a trademark, how to attain one, and answers your questions.

This webinar will go live at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 26th Participants need a Flash enabled computer, speakers, and a high speed connection. Participants will be able to interact through live chat, and submit their questions to be answered in real time. If you can’t join us on the 26th the whole presentation, including audio, will be available for free streaming on demand from the Arts Council’s website.

“How To” videos that to help you maximize your presence on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace YouTube, etc. from Madelyn Sklar’s Social Networking for Musicians. Her latest video, “How To Add ReverbNation App To Your Facebook Fan Page”, is available on YouTube. You can view it and others at http://www.youtube.com/sn4m

Do you know about the Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis? It’s one of the five largest music conferences in North America. This amazing event is chock full of music, seminars, workshops, networking and booking opportunities. Five days of industry workshops, panels, exhibits, showcases, concerts, and more for members of the international music community. The event provides a networking opportunity for those in the industry to work hard and enjoy themselves while doing so. I attended this conference last year and I have to tell you it’s fantastic. I’m going again this year. Every day and night there are literally hundreds of musicians playing, most in intimate settings.

Confused by Facebook?

Normally selling for $14.95 I’M SELLING THE CALENDAR FOR $5 EACH!!!!!!!!.

www.louisiana-festivals.com to order.

 The most complete listing of events in the state, listing over 500 events with dates, town names, phone numbers and websites

Each year the calendar is updated with new festivals and photos. On the top part of each month a particular festival is chosen to for display with photos and detailed captions.  An index on the last two pages lists each festival for the whole year alphabetically, which then directs you to the correct month.

Copyright Infringement Comparison to Theft. Wikipedia.

A nice article written by someone from the Harry Fox agency describing the basic concepts pretty well.

To learn more about digital download licenses

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.pdf (Copyright Office circular 22)

Contact Gene at the Arts Council for more information. 504-523-1465

Louisiana’s first completely carbon free, eco-friendly music festival.

Podcasting the Arts Webinar Available On Demand

The Arts Council’s latest webinar, Podcasting the Arts , is now available for free streaming via our website. The webinar runs roughly 15 minutes, and can be viewed by clicking here.

To supplement this webinar, please see this Basic Guide to RSS and Feeds, downloadable as a PDF.

Presented by Cole Bernstein and Gene Meneray of the Arts Council’s Arts Business Program, the webinar covers how to create a podcast, how to distribute it, what other artists are doing with podcasts, and tips for production and recording.

Arts Council Workshop: Three Artists and the Internet

On Wednesday, July 15th, 2009, join the Arts Council and our esteemed panel for our latest workshop, Three Artists and the Internet.

Presenting at this workshop will be artists Heather Elizabeth, Rebecca Rebouche, and Dona Simons . All three artists have different careers, and different marketing strategies, but all have made creative and innovative use of the web to market their artwork. Topics to be addressed include:

• Creating an effective internet presence.
• Using music and video to enhance your presentation.
• Promoting your art via blogs and social media.

FREE Promotional Resource for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Fascinating video on YouTube about how CDs are made.

Diana Thornton - one of New Orleans' 30 "People to Watch"

What happens once a musician is finished recording songs in the studio? In New Orleans, it’s usually a visit to Diana Thornton at Crescent Music Services on Crete Street.

Thornton and her graphics team work with some of the city’s best-known musicians, including Ellis Marsalis and Kermit Ruffins, helping them to design and produce their CDs for maximum consumer appeal.

“Packaging is the face of the CD,” says Thornton, a graphic artist and digital designer. “It is the visual presentation of the music and is often the very first impression someone has of your music.”

CityBusiness article by Brett Clanton, Staff Writer

Every day, Diana Thornton’s humble home office in Metairie welcomes young musicians big on dreams but short on cash. Some of them come with freshly recorded studio albums in hand, ready for Thornton to design an eye-catching cover or with hopes she can find a manufacturer for their CDs; others just bring their questions. She sees them all.

Biz New Orleans

A professional graphic designer, Thornton had long been interested in music, but it wasn’t until she came to New Orleans in 1989 that she started dabbling in singing and songwriting. When she went to record a CD, she discovered there was no one in the area to really help her through the process.

Working with a local mastering engineer, the person responsible for “polishing” a recording for production before it goes to the factory, Thornton launched Crescent City Music Services in 1997. Her company provides musicians with a place to develop the look of their CD.

Recently I contacted my state representative to urge him to support HR 848, which would close the loophole that radio stations now enjoy of not having to pay musicians for their performance. I was shocked when he responded with a letter saying he didn’t support this!

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