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Musical Family Tree Gets New Look |
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 The Indiana Musical Family Tree has launched with a new look and a bevy of new features. MusicalFamilyTree.com now features easier to access music archives, better management features for musicians who contribute content and cleaner and easier to use look.
Indiana Musical Family collects and makes available quality independent/underground music by Indiana artists in hopes of exposing it to a larger audience. MFT has been online since 2004 and is one of Indiana's largest niche social networks.
If you've never checked out MFT, it's worth a look. There's great music, great history from some pretty amazing artists. The MP3 archive alone is worth taking the time to set up a profile. -- Mike
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Why Can't Indianapolis Support the Indiana Fever? |
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Opinion Leaders -
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Written by Erik Deckers
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 What do you want, Indiana? What's it going to take for our state, or at least our city, to support a professional women's basketball team? I've taken my family to four different games this year, thanks to some free ticket love from my new BFF Julie Graue, the VP of Business Operations of the Fever.
My family are Fever fans through and through. As the father of two little girls, I want them to have athletes they can look up to as role models. Hell, as the father of three kids, I want my kids to have positive role models regardless of gender and sports.
We love the Fever because they play clean, they don't get arrested, and they don't start brawls with fans in the stands, unlike some local Men-B-A teams I could name.
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Will Pay Walls Turn Journalists into Bloggers |
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There is an interesting side effect to the idea that putting news behind "pay walls" will enable publishers to make more money on the Internet: writers see pay walls as a career limitation. As a result, and much to their collective chagrin, career journalists are proving they have more in common with the bloggers that they ever would want to admit:
"it strikes me that news sites are just big blogging sites. No blogger would want their content hidden behind a paywall, and reporters are more and more just professional bloggers." -- rfugger on Slashdot (one of the oldest and most successful technology blogs)
One thing is certain. The lines are being blurred more and more between casual and amateur online media and professional news organizations. Writers clearly understand that their future earnings are tied to the size of their audience and ability to bring readers to their publisher, online or offline.
If writers see pay walls as a career limitation, could they begin to see news organizations the way many musicians see big record companies: easily replaced by a website and a few distribution deals?
What do you think - are pay walls the answer to save traditional print media or will they turn the best writers into bloggers?
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Three Social Media Commandments |
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Written by Mike Seidle
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Here are three quick things you should always do when you set up on a new social network. It doesn't matter if it's LinkedIn, Facebook, Smaller Indiana or some tiny discussion forum. It's important that you take the time to get the basics right so you get value from the time you are spending creating your profile.
 I. Thou Shalt Haveth a Profile Picture
These two rules apply to how you market yourself online, too. Yesterday, we decided to feature a prominent business coach's article on the Indiana Business Network's website. That grey picture to the left? That's his profile picture. Here's a look at his profile. It makes you wonder if our prominent Indianapolis business coach really cared enough to post, or just had an agency or intern go a-spamming. Regardless, I bet a prominent Indianapolis business coach will be updating his profile soon.
II. Thou Shalt Haveth a Personal Statement for the About You Box
I can't tell you how often I look at LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter pages where people have a personal profile that basically says:
"I work a lot. I derive my entire identity and satisfaction in life from my job, which is being underpaid to do boring work."
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2009 Indiana's Favorite Blog Winners |
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The votes are in and Linking Indiana members have selected this years Indiana's Favorite Blog winners. This year's winner, The G2 was powered by overwhelming reader support and swept both the Indiana's Favorite Blog and Indiana's Top Rated Blog Awards.
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The G2
411 Points, 86 Votes, 4.779 Rating
Category Winner: Sports
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To view the Top 10 and Category Winners for this years contest, click here.
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