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Well, only Three Months to go!  The campaign has been long and hard but I know you will agree with me that it was/is worth it!   There have been so many great ideas and thoughts that have come out of the ME Blogger folks over the last 9 months that it would be almost impossible to write them down…but we did and for all the world to read and see!!! :) 

Any ME Blogger (or any serious blogger) will tell you that the act of actively blogging has changed their thought process, made them better at what they do, and has expanded their communicational sphere (Think Global here… and don’t forget local as well ).   I’m very proud to have founded/started this campaign and I feel that we will, indeed, make or goal of 100 ME Bloggers by January, 1st 2009!   Keep those ideas, posts, and comments coming!!!

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Hello all,

    As with everyone it’s been more than busy with the start of the college year.   We’ve had a killer band camp and the Marching Wolverines are stronger than ever (And We’re Going To Disney in October!).   I am working to having the ME Blogger campaign back on track, as far as my administering of it, and up-to-date as of this September.

    Just a note, I will be looking back over the ME Bloggers in the next month to make sure that you all are keeping you’re commitments to being a ME Blogger.  At the end of this campaign, I will be writing a  number of articles for publication and I want to make sure that all the ME Bloggers are active bloggers and not just “cruising” along.  The ME Bloggers are the FIRST generation of Music Education bloggers and we need to be the examples for countless generations to come..we have to set the standard.

  Find out what we are all about here: http://mustech.net/100-me-bloggers.   I am going to be “pushing” for a community of people that comment, not only here but internet-wide over the next year…both of ourselves and of our students, and, musician friends.  Take the time to comment on posts you like, both here and everywhere; even if it’s just to say, GREAT JOB!.

    Doug Butchy has requested that I come up with a way to start a Twitter Music Education Group (Thanks Doug for the idea).  I’ve figured out how to do this out and will be posting about it soon.   You can always follow my twitters at http://twitter.com/pisanojm the page is Black &  Gold for the STEELERS!

    I’ve decided to use Wordpress at the CMS for the NU Chapter of Phi Beta Mu (International Bandmasters Honorary) and am working toward finishing their/our site soon.  If you want to see this progress from “root” to something in the next two weeks you can check out the site and progress here: http://pbmpa.org.  I’m also going to be using Wordpress for our PA Intercollegiate Band Masters site, which I will have up…TBA!!! Stay “tuned” for that site.

    Don’t give up on  your music program, if you need help make sure you check out http://supportmusic.com. I’ve posted about this in the past, do a search in the sidebar for related posts.   Also check under the advocacy section of mustech.net.

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I’ve been having a couple of issues with MusTech.Net so if things have been a little “different” with your experience, I apologize!

I’m still waiting for the PodPress update to be published. So you will not be able to listen to the podcasts directly from MusTech.Net until that is resolved.  I’ve also had issues with my ODEO feed in the right Sidebar.  It was causing a script error with the ODEO player.

Finally, I totally messed the site up when I was upgrading a number of plugins that I use and lost 3 of my last posts (Despite by daily backup!!!!) so I had to reconstruct those. 

Oh well!  Things are “kinda” back on track now!  Well I’m at it I might as well also state that I’m about 6 weeks behind on the ME Blogger Project.  My goal is to get that turned around very soon!  Stay tuned!

I’d like to wish a Happy Mother’s Day to all of the women who are their kids MOMS that read MusTech.Net!  To that end, I would like to direct any reader to Espie’s About Music Education blog where she has written  a lot of great, related music/educational information about Mother’s day.: 

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Espie is a full time MOM, a full time music educator, full time blogger, and good friend of MusTech.Net.  Some of her Mother’s Day posts and articles include:

• Songs for Mother’s Day
  A collection of songs to honor that special woman in your life - Mom!
• Heart-Warming Ideas for Mother’s Day
  A collection of ideas to celebrate Mother’s Day.
• Mother’s Day Articles - Songs for Moms
  A collection of articles meant to make Mother’s Day extra special.
• Songs About Mothers - Music Sheet, Lyrics and Music Samples
  Heart-Warming Ideas for Mother’s Day… Songs for Mother’s Day
• Famous Moms in Music
  In honor of Mother’s Day, let’s get to know some of the most famous women in music who were not only gifted composers, but also devoted moms.  

Please take the time to visit Espie (One of our ME BLOGGERS!) and take a look at her terrific site.  She truly is one of the most active Music Education Bloggers that I am aware of and, her nearly endless list of great posts are the proof!

Happy Mother’s Day to all!