Saturday Check-In: May 28, 2011

Saturday Check-In. What has been going on with me this week?

First of all, I launched a new Twitter. I have a personal one but my new Twitter is more music based and more for promotional and networking purposes. Follow me at @TheMusicTourist.

I also joined LinkedIn. It is a professional social networking site that focuses more on professional connections. I was told to join it a long time ago but I finally did. I'm still trying to figure out how to navigate around it lol.

I am also trying to launch a new YouTube channel for The Music Tourist so I can start uploading Vlogs. However themusictourist domain is already taken. So when another domain comes to mind, I will create it and let you know.

Also this week I have been in talks with one of the marketing organizers of a conference coming to Chicago. I have contacted him over the phone a couple of times and he is trying to connect me to a marketing internship for this summer. I would be marketing for several events including this conference in July. This conference puts artists, writers, and composers in contact with A&R's and managers representing many different labels such as Interscope and Atlantic. If the internship does not work out, I may very well be present at this conference. I will let you all know if I attend and you can meet up with me and network.

I have also been writing. Did you check out the Word Up! Wednesday of this week? I'm not sure if it's a poem or lyric, or both. But there it is. I liked it and pretty much wrote it all at once with little editing. I am trying to concentrate on writing more. As a songwriter, all these little preparations mean nothing without the music.

Also I was able to attend an awesome event yesterday. I will write more about it in my next post! Stay tuned for that!

In non-music related news, I am definitely on the search for jobs to support myself until the writing career kicks off. I am also awaiting graduate school application results from a few places at well. Keep me in your prayers y'all. I've got a lot on my mind as far as my future and a lot of pressure to stay afloat in this economy. Let me know how you are too, for those that know me and those who don't. Keep your head up. We'll make it.

~L~

Songs listened to while writing this post: Parachute "Something to Believe In," Bruno Mars "Just the Way You Are"