Rock The Net (formerly Rock Your Net) presents the first series of workshops for 2013. This time we open up the series to filmmakers as well. PledgeMusic Comes To Town Benji Rogers from music fan funding platform, PledgeMusic, will present the keynote at Rock The Net on Saturday, Jan 19th at 10 AM. His presentation [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2012
A review of Leadership Music’s Digital Summit from our friends at April 30, 2012, Issue 292 Digital Summit: Social/Traditional Media Balance As the music and radio industries get caught up in the frenzy over social media, several experts at last week’s Leadership Music Digital Summit offered some insights as to how Facebook, Twitter technology tools [...]
Continue reading...31. May 2012
In about 6-7 hours, Amanda Palmer’s Kickstarter campaign will come to an end. By then she will have raised well over a 1.1 million dollars for her upcoming project. Her target by the way was $100,000. It’s fair to say that she has obliterated her goal. None of this is net of course but she [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2012
“Charles Alexander’s workshops are a joyful evening of goal setting, career planning and social media know-how that are a must-have for any independent artist…” – Lydia Hutchinson, Founder of Performing Songwriter We present the June Rock Your Net Workshops, this time around we’ll also be presenting an intermediate level hands on seminar. The first introductory [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2012
This past few months I’ve been looking at where the future of fan engagement and perhaps even music discovery will take us. I am intrigued. My appearance on a panel at Nashville’s Leadership Music’s Digital Summit has prompted me to put this thoughts down in a post. It’s fun to play, "So what’s next?" A [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2012
(Some parts of this post were featured on my 2011 PodCamp related post. They still apply this year) I have a confession to make. I’m actually an artist masquerading as a tech geek. I come at all of this tech, digital marketing, web development & pod/bar-camping from the perspective of an artist, musician, songwriter and [...]
Continue reading...12. March 2012
Hello there Here is our Facebook Music Marketing Guide. Along with the guide we also want to give you some of my (Charles Alexander’s) music. We hope you enjoy! When you enter your email you’ll be sent a link to confirm and download the zip file. As part of the process you’ll be entered into [...]
Continue reading...24. February 2012
Thank you for attending the "High Tech For Medium Tech People" and/or "Website Derby" panels at Folk Alliance. As promised, here is the "The Guide To Marketing Music on Facebook." Click on "Get It Free" and enter your email address, you’ll then receive a link via email to download the file. You’ll also receive Charles [...]
Continue reading...22. January 2012
On Friday, Congress finally gave up trying to pass an ill advised piece of legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) it’s sister bill in the Senate. Rep. Lamar Smith from TX, SOPA’s main sponsor pulled the bill saying, "I have heard from the [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2012
Introduction What Is SOPA? How We Got Here The RIAA’s Recent History The Effect of Piracy on Music Existing Statutes SOPA From An Artist’s Perspective But They’re Stealing My Stuff! Where To From Here Introduction Photo of Tootsie’s Nashville by Kathleen Tyler Conklin. Creative Commons License. I am a Nashville based performing songwriter, bioinformaticist and [...]
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10. January 2013
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