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As far as profiles, I think each musician should update their own profile. After all, it is the musician that set up the profile; musicians that no longer have valid links should be emailed, or people should attempt. Most give an email address. I mean, back in February, I set up a LD profile, proving how each musician can update their own. Tyler Z On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:36:26 -0700, Matt Davignon wrote: >Exactly. The San Francisco experimental/improvised music community has a >site >called bayimproviser.com, which similarly has some elements that are out >of >date. >I think the secret is to keep the number of pages to a minimum - just the >number you're willing to keep up to date yourself, or that can be >auto-maintained by members. >For example, if someone wanted to update loopers-delight.com, the changes >I'd >suggest are: >--Get rid of MOST of the links/menu items from the first page. >--Keep "Tools of the Trade", but only if someone can keep it up to date. >Let >members contribute reviews to gear. >--Clear out the Artist Profiles and start again. (Probably only a small >percentage are current.) New profiles would have: Artist Name, >Instrument(s) >(100 character max), description of music (100 character max), location, >upcoming shows (see below) and URL. Add some sort of validation that >hides the >profile if the URL link is no longer active. The idea would be to keep >this >page clean and easy to navigate, while driving viewers to the artists' >own >pages. >--Allow artists to submit calendar events, but only show events that are >happening in the future. (See www.bayimproviser.com/calendar) If an >artist has >an upcoming gig on their calendar, show that as a link with 1 line of >descriptive text on the artist's profile. >--Have one link for News/Tips/History. From that link, provide links to >the >different "important" articles, with dates. Allow members to contribute >articles/tips, etc, but sort articles their by date, with most recent at >top. >--Have one link called "Products" for the T-shirts, Compilation CDs, etc.) >Having a big resource is good, but when I land on a site, and see mostly >content that's more than 3 years old, it starts feeling musty. Remember >that >many of the people looking to learn about looping are younger folks, so >making >an attempt to highlight a larger diversity of "well known" artists - if a >kid >in high school is checking the site out, and all she sees featured are >Caucasian guitarists over the age of 40 and articles about the great >things >that happened in 1996, there's a good chance she's going to associate >looping >with being "an old guy thing". Great job on this video page: >http://www.livelooping.org/musicians/listeners-port/ and the link on >that page >to http://www.youtube.com/livelooping >-- >Matt Davignon >mattdavignon@gmail.com >www.ribosomemusic.com >Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Petri Lahtinen ><kollegavalmentaja@gmail.com> >wrote: >Maintaining a website for a community as large as this is, >is a task that no-one (?) likes to do pro bono. >We so much want everything served for us on a silver platter, >updated, full of the latest info and so forth, but really forget >that in these kind of communities, somebody ALWAYS has >to do the job of maintaining the technological side of things. >As so many times in this forum it has said, >when someone wants to do this without getting paid >and just for the love of it, he / she is free to do so. >But as we have noticed, volunteers always disappear in this stage... >:-) >_Petri_ >2012/4/26 todd reynolds <toddreyn@gmail.com> >I know, right? >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:35 AM, michael klobuchar <nemoguitt@aol.com> >wrote: >michael sez: >but by keeping the site for themselves instead of opening it up, for >reasons >nobody really understands, the site owners effectively killed it. >michael sez:....WHAT ?.....LD is dead?????.....why am i always the last >to know? >-- >==================================== >The Best Classical Music ofthe Year, 2011 - Amazon.com >Outerborough, Todd Reynolds' solo double CD is now available wherever >music is >sold. Here's a direct link to Amazon, however! >======================== >http://toddreynolds.com >http://twitter.com/digifiddler >http://myspace.com/toddreynoldsmusic >http://blog.toddreynolds.com >http://facebook.com/toddreynolds >http://reverbnation.com/toddreynolds >need me right away? Call or text me at 917.576.6166 >-- >Petri