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More Concepts & Ideas to Collaborate With Independent Musicians and Upcoming Media Companies

wolfgang.senges@contentsphere.de (Wolfgang Senges) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:57:00 +0200

Finally, I decided to change the content design of ContentSphere quite a bit.

Previously, articles have been long. Some very long. Others… well, think of the Chinese Wall. The disadvantage is, the longer the articles are the less frequent there’s a new posting.

From now on, each day will see a very short posting. Some ideas that came to mind. Some link I came across. Some new site worth a mention. It would be really great to get a bit of feedback from your side relating to these postings. Because, based on these I decide which short article or new issue is worthwhile to work out.

Concept is to throw in one longer article (deserving that name) once a week. But don’t expect it to be as long as the chart toppers from previous months - some consisted of more than 10k characters (don’t ask for #1… 18k).

Maybe I won’t show the discipline to keep up with my new principles but at least I hope so.

Regarding the topics to cover in forthcoming articles, I aim at providing more advice and most of all more exchange and more collaboration. So, you took my advice and it went wrong - the result did not match your expectations? Mail me, post your reaction, whatever. I’d like to learn.

Also, shortly the static pages are about to be changed and featured more prominently. But that’s another story.

Recommended: Andrew Dubber's "The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online"

wolfgang.senges@contentsphere.de (Wolfgang Senges) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:41:36 +0200

[Deutsche Version] Yeah, I know. It is from 2007. BUT - do yourself a favour and read it.

Andrew Dubber is known for being a lecturer, a music industries consultant doing un-consultancies, an entertaining blogger, and a trustworthy man true to his principles. Some of these are “only free music gets it started”, “free music is no strategy”, “DRMs are not useful” and most all - helping independent musicians to thrive by mastering new media technology.

It is a great book - motivating, advising, and entertaining at the same time. You’re in the music biz? Read it. Get a grip of the changes the market is going through right now. Take your advantages out of it. More than ever, you can do it now. You’re not into music at all? Read it anyway. It’s uplifting and truely helpful.

And on top, now there’s even a German translation to it. I’ve liked the book so much - I just translated it. Also, there are translations to Spanish and Chinese. Well, these I didn’t translate, to be honest. Fellow translators Ismael Valladolid Torres and Tze-Ern Liew did a perfect job on these.

See also the all new page on ebooks…

All new.

wolfgang.senges@contentsphere.de (Wolfgang Senges) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:22:08 +0100