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The Music Industry

Thinks Out Loud

• Bas Grasmayer: The Next Music Format Case-Study: Twisted Music
• Dave Cool: The Four P’s of Playing Live Shows: Promotion
• Brian Thompson: The Twitter Trolls: How to Deal with Criticism Online
• Ariel Hyatt: Musician’s Arsenal: Killer Apps, Tools & Sites - Facebook’s Timeline
• Jamie Leger: What Can We Learn From Indie Band Pomplamoose?

Happy New Year from Music Think Tank & Hypebot.com!

 

Happy New Year from Music Think Tank & Hypebot.com!

Thanks for reading and contributing to the conversation! If you would like to contribute a post, read the guidelines and post a summary on the MTT open tab. Every week, several posts will be moved from the MTT open tab to the main MTT page and featured on Hypebot.com so if your post seems to be “missing”, your post may have been moved to the MTT main page and will be published soon.

It’s a new year and fresh start! What are your plans for the new year and what projects are you working on?

What improvements or suggestions do you have for Music Think Tank and Hypebot?

Let’s make 2012 great!

Happy New Year!

—Natalie (@ncswim881), MTT Community Manager, and the rest of the MTT & Hypebot crew

Music Think Tank Logo

I just passed this logo over to Bruce and Kyle at Hypebot, but it occurred to me that others may need it also.  Without further introduction, may I present…the Music Think Tank logo (as a PNG).

What If You Owned Music Think Tank?

It’s been a few months since the Hypebot team has taken over the stewardship of Music Think Tank. In that time, we’ve published some really spectacular material along with a couple of things that did not deserve to be featured in this thoughtful forum. Along the way, we’ve learned and are (we hope) slowly improving how we do things and the quality of the content.  But now that we’ve got our bearings, it’s time to ask for feedback: If you ran Music Think Tank, how would you do things differently?

For example:

• Should we more or less selective with the articles that we publish on the home page?
• Does the current level of self-promotion in some posts bother you or is it payback for sharing their content?
• Are there additional voices that you wished were represented here?
• Are there topics that you wish we’re covered more on MTT?
• Do you listen to MTT Radio and if so, how can we improve it?
• (Your great idea here.)

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Music Think Tank Brings On New Intern

Good afternoon all, I wanted to take a moment and announce that we have a new intern that’s helping around Music Think Tank. Her name is Natalie Cheng (@ncswim881).

She is from Sugar Land, TX. She is twenty-two and is very interested in music marketing and branding, new trends in the music and record industries, and distribution. She wants to learn more about the changes affecting the music industry and how artists are changing the way they interact with fans.  Her career goals include working in a marketing position at a music company or label and working as a session musician for major artists. Currently, she is seeking a job/internship at music labels and companies in the Texas area or to continue her education, possibly pursuing a master’s degree in music or marketing. 

Here at Music Think Tank, she’ll be focusing on tagging posts, writing post summaries, approving comments, and getting involved in a myriad of other ways with Hypebot too.

Take a moment to welcome her to the community.