Using Ning for Music, Film & Creative Interests

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Sherman Hu: Hey, Hey, Hey, Sherman Hu from ShermanLive.com I wanted to give a shout out that I’m enroute to go visit a friend that is a renowned music producer and I’m not going to mention his name, but a lot of top music artists know him and have him write their music and produce. He wants to discuss, brainstorm, and organize and have me come over and help him out with his online community project. I’m not sure exactly what it is, but by the end of the night I know I’ll find out.

If you have friends or associates or clients or whoever that is looking to launch their own online community project in the arts, whether its music, film, movies, modeling, whatever the case might be, then definitely consider Ning.com as a social networking application to be the piggy back, a platform for your online social network. Then you definitely want to piggyback on MySpace, create a profile for that project and upload the media pieces. When you’re talking about music, the music content is incredible media that you can publish to MySpace or Ning or to a host of media sites. You can post music videos, interviews with the artist, that kind of stuff.

Just a heads up on an application that I’ve used quite well that I really like is TubeMogul.com, and it’s a free web-based application that broadcasts your video to a whole list of video sharing sites. So instead of having to upload your video one at a time to eight to 10 video sharing sites, you just have to upload your video once to TubeMogul and it will broadcast it to the ten video sharing sites for you. And not only that, it will track the views and the stats of how well those videos are doing at the different video sharing sites.

One of the video sharing sites that it posts to is Blip.tv which is where all of my video media is hosted right now. And the cool thing about Blip.tv is they will also cross post to a variety of different places, one of them being "Internet Archives". Google loves "Internet Archives" like Blip. These video sharing sites are doing very well when you post your media to it and you use good titles to title your videos.

Right there I dropped four apps for you to consider; Ning, MySpace, TubeMogul, and of course Blip.tv. Check it out, right now we are in such a video craze that when you use it well you can really show up well in the search engines for Google’s Universal Search where they showcase pictures and YouTube videos and different things like this. Anyway, that’s my tip, enjoy, use it, benefit from it, and we’ll talk to you soon.