As I said in my previous post, this is going to be a multi-part blog-o-rama on this topic of week 4. Today I spent about 4 hours scouring the web for blogs that do reviews and podcasts that play my genre of music. I then put the findings into a database spreadsheet that was suggested by Chris Bracco on his Tight Mix Blog.
I started out using delicious.com and typing in some keywords. I found a few blogs, but it was slow going. Then I had a light bulb go off over my head and thought about the great newsletters that I get from CyberPR that often (well always) have interviews with podcasters and bloggers. What better way to research than to go to CyberPR’s New Media Interview archives and pillage!
I easily filled my quota of 30 bloggers (20 to go) and podcasters from the list of interviews I found. I also found a reference to a great source for bloggers called the Blog Catalog which allows you to explore the blogosphere using keywords. Blog Catalog is a great resource and very easy to use and capsulises what the blog is all about so you don’t have to waste time.
My next steps with the info I’ve collected:
- put the blog URLs into my blogroll
- bookmark the blogs into delicious.com
- add the blog RSS for each blog into my Google Reader
- monitor the blogs and start commenting
- follow the ones that are on Twitter and Facebook
- get some music up on the Podsafe Network
Next on the agenda:
- add more blogs to my list by going to google.blogsearch.com and technorati.com
- search for reviews of like sounding indie artists
- check out last.fm and thesixtyone
- start using my Flickr account – I’ve had an account for a long time, but haven’t used it
To Be Continued…
