It used to be that a website put you at the forefront of technology. For bands a website used to be enough to get you on the level with you fans and make you accessible. Would now seem that having a dotcom isn’t enough in the dotcom world these days. The advent and quasi maturation of blogging has forced wanton artists to step up to the plate in terms of audience accessibility. You can find more and more celebrities using blogs and various other social networks to keep in constant contact with their fan base. It’s not a bad idea for emerging artists to use the very same technologies that are readily available to them in order to establish themselves.
Mattew Good is a Canadian recording artist who has seen and evolved with the trends and phases of emerging technologies. He is currently making the most of his resources at www.matthewgood.org in order to communicate not only his music but also his thoughts and experiences via the world wide web. The blogging platform he is using is WordPress. It’s very user friendly on both ends of the user spectrum: artist and audience. Navigating the site is a breeze and very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. It’s a simple approach that gives the viewer the most while putting in the least amount of effort. The main page is full of the most recent postings and the side bar is a quick guide to finding out just about anything you need or would like to know about the artist. Everything from author information, online store, causes he supports, archive posts, shows, and music are all at simply a click away. Another interesting aspect of how this WordPress platform is genius is that it allows you to connect your audience to all the social networks used. Matthew Good lists his Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Delicious, and Flickr accounts along with the RSS feed to his actual website. If this is good enough for Matthew Good it’s good enough for indie artists trying to make it in the industry.
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