I along with a couple of other co-SAVVY bloggers have started, what will no doubt be the best and most useful, program noteswebsite available to date (how’s that for ambitious!). I am very excited about the look of the site and the, very real, usefulness factor it provides.
I/we have been Alpha testing this site and am ready to have about a dozen new folks try this out and work with me on a closed BETA version of the site. In particular, I am looking for directors with choral, jazz, and orchestra program note experience/writers to continue the testing, but I’ll take band and wind ensemble directors too!
I really would like to publicly have the BETA moved into full production by mid-April. If you have written notes, and or want to write notes, we could REALLY use your help with this project. This project will benefit all educators by providing a reliable program note source for all of us. One that is searchable, expandable, categorical, and FREE.
I’ve taken a tip from Will and am going to embed the PowerPoint presentation I spoke about in a previous post into this post. If you are interested in the “power” of R.S.S. or even “what it is”. This PowerPoint is a good start.
This PowerPoint is licensed under a creative commons 3.0 license. You are free to share it for non-commercial use as long as you don’t modify it and attribute authorship.
Ken asked me a great question about using the new ME Blogger Logos in the sidebar of a WordPress.com site. Although it is easy to post a graphic in a regular post by using the upload featureof a WordPress post, posting a graphic in the sidebar is a little bit trickier.
This post will feature a step-by-step graphic tutorial of how do accomplish this using any standard (free) WordPress.com site. In addition, I will include specific information for posting the ME Graphic in your sidebar while having it reference back to the 100-ME-Blogger Informational page located on this site. I will also start a thread in the forums (ME HELP) to work with anyone who is having any problems following the tutorial.
Note: This is a LARGE post and you should print this if you are going to work through the following tutorial.
Part 1, Uploading the graphic file to your WordPress.com server
Step 1: PREPARE
Make sure you have downloaded the logo(s) you would like to use in your sidebar to your (local) computer (put them on your desktop or in your pictures folder so you remember where they are). In the case of the ME bloggers, you can find these pictures here: http://www.esnips.com/web/mebloggers
Step 2: Log into your WordPress.com account and click on the Write Tab
Step 3: Create a “Dummy” picture holder post
Once your in the WRITE location, choose “Write Post” and create a new POST called: Upload Picts (Do Not Post). Make sure you put the (Do Not Post) after the Picts so that later on you will remember not to post this. You will be able to use this one “Dummy” post in the future to continue to upload pictures that will not be used in an actual post but may be useful in other instances such as using in your sidebar.
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