Really nice site you have here. I’ve been reading for a while but this post made me want to say 2 thumbs up. Keep up the great work.

This is all stated in their bios but just to recap for you…Nick Venturella is one of the musicians you speak of that utilizes the internet for promotion and recognition. Broadjam is an international music company that helps thousands of musicians and bands promote their music. Local Sounds is a Madison music organization that is the umbrella for Gimp Radio, MadCity Tube, and the former Rick’s Cafe. MadTown Lounge is a great entertainment website that most Madison bands and musicians utilize for promotion. The Journey Music has done amazing things for the local music scene, especially the all-age band and fan scene. Roy, Matt, and Tom are also musicians as well as currently working on the promotional side of music.

I agree that Box Social, Caustic, and Crustacean Records are all wonderful examples of individuals/groups that utilize the internet to the fullest music promotion possibilities. We can, however, only have a certain number of people on a panel. The list was very long and full of very qualified individuals. We may do another panel like this again in the future in which we would use a different set of panelists.

MadInteractive is going to be doing a panel on music blogging. Ryan from Muzzle of Bees is on the top of the list to be asked to be involved with that panel. That is why he was not asked to be part of this panel.

Thank you for expressing your thoughts about the panel. I hope that you will attend tonight’s discussion to hear what these five individuals have to say on the subject.

Box Social booked an entire tour via MySpace contacts.
Crustacean Records is almost completely dependent on Internet sales.
Caustic has had huge success promoting online and also has a number of interesting thoughts on how file sharing hurts his bottom line and how to overcome it.
Muzzle Of Bees is a very important national music blog that brings tons of attention to local artists.

-Wendy and Dianna

John

I added this to upcoming.org for my own calendaring convenience. If you use that too:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/183596

Also, one thing I thought about after last time that might be cool and not take a ton of effort: adding “your URLs” to the sign in sheet. Then maybe a post on the blog here with the results… it’d be kinda cool to see some of the sites that are locally maintained.