C’mon over, the waters nice!

I haven’t looked at this blog in a little while now and just checked back for fun. I found a bunch of hits still happening everyday! There is no new content being posted here… It’s all at the new blog.

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Negative Space

Well, I am starting a business.

Negative Space Web Marketing will be a consulting firm helping you build your brand by creating a strategy using new media. I am still ironing out all of the wrinkles and working to open the doors wide for business. It will all start with a blog.

This new blog will keep you up on music news and how it relates to social media. More importantly, it will keep you up on social media and how it relates to your band or business. The industry is changing and its changing fast. We can thank the influence of social media and internet business for that.

I must thank you all who have been following this blog. Please redirect your attention to the new Negative Space blog – and resubscribe. I will be discontinuing this blog when everyone has gotten the message.

Thank you again. See you at the Negative Space blog!

#baratundethurston on #hashtags

Baratunde Thurston spoke at a Web 2.0 convention recently about the use of hashtags on Twitter. Baratunde is a standup comedian who works for The Onion and is a twitter genius. You will see in the video he has started joke twitter accounts and developed followings for each of 2000+ in two weeks through the brilliant use of hashtags.

If you don’t know – hashtags in twitter are the things you see with the pound sign before them (i.e. #swineflu, #howblackareyou, etc.). Hashtags connect you with people who don’t follow you. Search a hashtag in Twitter search and you will stumble upon thousands of conversations, you may want to jump in.

Deeper Meaning

What interested me most about Baratunde’s talk was this use of “crowdsourcing” information. Using hashtags to tap into the ideas of the crowd. It’s a way to start a conversation in 140 characters or less. This is an opportunity for you to tap into the masses and see what they have to say.

Experiment

Create a hasthag for yourself and start the conversation around it. See what kind of response you get back. Make it a question or a bold statement and hashtag it frequently. As the conversation grows it will breath a human aspect into your brand 140 characters at a time.

Watch the video, try it for yourself, tell me how it goes. Mention me – I will jump into the conversation! @jakelarson.