Just when I thought I had discovered the coolest social site - Twitter, along comes Twitter with music.
It’s called www.Blip.fm.
Once you sign up for an account, you can enter the name of a group or song you’d like to hear and you get a list of members who provide those songs or artists.
A page appears with all the pictures of “DJs” with the note at the bottom that says, “add all?”
Once you click that link, you instantly have 30 new “Favorite DJs” in your community (or however many were on the page).
If you want to hear a song, all you have to do is enter the title or author in the field. It will search for that title or author and allow you to preview or blip.
Click Preview to make sure it’s the song you are looking for.
If you blip it, you send it out to the community. Add a message to say anything you’d like.
Blips come in constantly just like tweets do on Twitter and it’s fun to see what people around the world are listening to.
It’s a cool way to share and hear your favorite music.
Isn’t it amazing what you can do with technology!
At our last conference in Atlanta, social sites expert Don Crowther taught a session on how to use social networking to make a pile of money.
If you’d like to watch his session, his was just part of the video set for the conference. You can check it out at www.EntrepreneurDays.com.
And if you get the videos, make sure you don’t miss watching MikeandMichael.com, who provided the musical entertainment at our Saturday night banquet.
They are actually Mike Stewart and Mike Edging, two musical geniuses who wowed the crowd with original jazz on the piano and sax. It was one of the best nights of my life!
I wonder if their music is on blip.fm…
So many books, so little time…
Rhea!
who isn’t the most technical knife in the drawer
Am I the only one who is glad Election 2008 is finally over?
Whether it turned out like you wanted it to or not, we just witnessed an example of a successful marketing campaign on steroids.
Although the Democratic candidate Barak Obama won, the heroes of the Nov. 4 victory were actually Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe and David Axelrod, king of Chicago political consultants, who orchestrated an amazing marketing program.
We literally watched marketing history being made on TV as Obama’s team climaxed their offline and online campaign with a gigantic live and virtual victory party which outclassed previous celebrations in America’s political history.
Not only were hundreds of thousands of supporters present, but thousands more were present in other locations. Millions watched from around the world on TV. (Obama was surrounded by bullet-proof glass.)
Obama’s savvy marketing team not only employed volunteers from all over the country, but for the first time, it also turned to the power of the Internet.
Supporters used social networking sites such as MySpace.com, FaceBook.com and the hottest thing online right now, Twitter, to continually send tweets of support for their candidate.
Being an EduTweeter (an educator addicted to Twitter), I noticed the unusual barrage of posts. It seemed the Republicans were far out-numbered. It was disappointing to learn later that the barrage was all part of the plan.
During the election returns, tweets were coming into to Twitter so fast, the timeline scrolled continually for hours.
Callers sent supporters to the official campaign website to make online donations. In the final weeks, contributions were up to $5,000,000 per day.
It wasn’t hard to win the election with financing like that.
So no matter what you think of politics and Election 2008 in particular, here are the lessons we can all learn from this:
Hire the best consultants to help you.
Plan your campaign well.
There is power in numbers; employ volunteers.
Include strategies that are online and offline.
Don’t be afraid to try something that’s never been done before, like social networking.
End your campaign with a live event and invite as many attendees as you can host.
In case you run for public office next term, make sure you include these strategies in your campaign.
Or if you just want to make a few bucks from home, they’ll help you accomplish that goal as well. (And now that the Internet has changed the game, it’s not hard to do.)
Whatever you do, do something to make a contribution to your world.
You really don’t have to run for president.
So many books, so little time…
Rhea!
who would be proud of you if you won
P.S. See Charlie “Tremendous” Jone’s final public presentation as a bonus in our Entrepreneur Days 2008 videos here:
Charlie “Tremendous” Jones was one of the most remarkable people I have ever met.
He was the keynote speaker at our Entrepreneur Days 2007 conference in Atlanta. It was truly an honor for our attendees to get the opportunity to personally meet such a successful man in life and in business.
It was also an honor for us to have him give his finale presentation on our stage.
On Oct. 16, Charlie died of cancer.
But I can’t say he lost the battle. He didn’t believe in losing. He would tell you today that he conquered life. That all of us are only here on this earth for a short time and what we do with Jesus while we’re here determines where we spend eternity.
He was a man of faith. He was a man of character. He was a man of conviction.
People all over the world will miss his hilarious stories and his unique wit. He was truly a perfect example of what a Christian should be.
Always light-hearted, full of wisdom and quick to set you straight, he continually spread his wonderful positive attitude everywhere he went.
Whenever I called him, he would always tell me, “Life is tremendous! YOU are tremendous! God is tremendous!”
As soon as I met him on the phone, I decided I want to be like Charlie “Tremendous” Jones when I grow up.
I called his office one day recently to chat after hearing that his health was failing. They said he was no longer able to take calls and I was sad. I so wanted to tell him good-bye.
Then a friend gave me the opportunity to record and send him a video message just a few weeks ago so I said all the things I wanted to tell him in that short video. I so hope he was able to get it.
Life is so short. So often we get caught up in the details of life that seem so important at the time but later seem to have stolen the day.
If you feel discouraged, remember Charlie “T” Jones. He never wasted a day, he never missed the opportunity to make someone happy, no matter how bad he felt, and he always gave God the glory.
He truly lived a tremendous life.
I’m not the only one who will miss him.
So many books, so little time…
Rhea!
who wishes everyone could live life with the Christian commitment and hilarious sense of humor that Charlie “Tremendous” Jones had
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