Gordon & Jonathan It really sounds fab what you are doing with the UK theremin portal, good on you, I will try and be a good ambasador for it and use it. I think the problem most of us have is time - I only confirmed the tour details with Masami Takeuchi 10 days before, then it took me another 5 days to get it out to people... If you can make use of more Web 2.0 technologies e.g. RSS feeds the easier keeping a portal up to date becomes. From my own profession, I've worked in online publishing for 6 years, and most recently for quangos (public-private organisations) where we're always talking about developing a portal for this and a portal for that... loads of money gets thrown at it, and within 6 months the motivators behind the project leave and it gets abandoned in cyberspace like a floating white elephant... The keys to portal/social networking success are: make it do something that everyone appreciates and values. Engagement to get everyone using it. Ownership - make people feel it's owned by them collectively. Personally, I'm terrible about updating my own website, let alone anyone else's, and I'm probably more web-savvy and organised than most musicians! Wouldn't a MySpace theremin group do a lot of this stuff? E.g. people already post details of their gigs, links to their music files & videos... although it's a bit limited on functionality like adding in documents, links, resources... Sorry to throw in the Rupert Murdoch financed option, but it's what people are already using...! Anyway, genuinally do eagerly await details of theremin UK portal. -- Susi O'Neill Lunette Records www.lunette.co.uk - sales@... Tel: 07981 222799 Hypnotique "The Hanging Garden" - soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse - out now! http://www.hypnotique.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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theremin UK portal
2006-06-15 by Lunette Records