Popular Social Networks:Facebook Facebook.com has rolled out new fan /artist pages. Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. Upload photos * get the latest news from your friends * post videos on your profile * tag your friends * use privacy settings to control who sees your info * join a network to see people who live, study, or work around you (and you can promote show here too!)
TwitterTwitter.com -- a micro blogging site that answers one simple question: What Are You Doing? You post your answers to it and it's a great way to create that real connection with your fans and keep them updated. You can also use their widgets to post the feed into your regular Blog.
YouTubeYouTube.com - is a video sharing website where users can create their own video profile page and upload, view and share video clips.
MySpace MySpace.com helps you create an online profile and artist music web page where you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of fans & friends!
Flickr Flickr.com is on of the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. They have two main goals: 1. They want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them. 2. They want to enable new ways of organizing photos. You should maintain a page and link to others using their social networking tools.
Artist / Music Social NetworksLast.fmLast.fm.com is a music site that helps you discover new music with free Internet radio and the largest music catalog online. Site features free music streaming, videos, photos, lyrics, charts, artist biographies, concerts and Internet radio.
imeemimeem.com is an online community where artists, fans & friends can promote Everything, Photos, Albums, Videos, Music, Blogs, Groups, People, and playlists.
iLike iLike.com - Music of the people, by the people, for me. They invite every music lover to participate in a more democratic music industry. By rating, recommending, or simply by listening to music, you'll impact what gets recommended to others. And it works with Facebook.
JamBaseJamBase.com - A web portal for all things related to seeing live music featuring music, reviews and touring schedules for thousands of artists.
OurStage Ourstage.com - is designed to leverage the power of the Internet to connect fans to emerging artists. You get exposure to new fans through their ranking and judging system.
Artist Promotional Widget Sites:
ReverbNationReverbNation.com - Designed for artists. Deep, empowering stats and information on your fan base help you make decisions on where to tour and how effectively you are growing your business. Keep your page up to date and export pieces of it to other sites - imagine only having to enter shows one time for all your web locations! And GREAT WIDGETS GALORE!
Create Your Own Social Network:NingNing.com is a mainstream Internet service that allows you to create a social network for anything. Now over 75,000 social networks run on Ning.
Business & Professional Network: LinkedIn LinkedIn.com is a business-oriented networking site mainly used for professional networking. But I think it is critical to be on this site as a professional artist you need to be making serious contacts to advance your career. It has over 16 million registered users, spanning 150 industries.
Social Bookmarking and RSS Feeds:
Del.icio.usdel.icio.us is a social bookmarking website that is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. You can use del.icio.us to keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer. Share favorites with anyone, and the del.icio.us community. And they've already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, and more. You can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
digg digg.com is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. Digg is a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we''re changing the way people consume information online.
Technorati Technorati.com is a blog search engine to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. They index more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content.
Feedburner FeedBurner.com is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.
Other Sites:
AmazonAmazon.com -- Yes that's right! Create a profile in one of the most used sites on the net and get found by search engines like Google. Make lists of your favorite reads, music (include your own CD and review yourself!), wish lists and more.
AddThisAddthis.com - This button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people. The tool also provide you with Analytics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users.
ShareThisSharethis.com - This button is makes sharing content as instantaneous and customizable as possible. The widget tool also provides you with analytics and customizable features to match your website.
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