Current (and future) members:
Some of you have indicated interest in posting pretty regularly, others expect to do so "now and then".
What are you going to write about? Well, our group description is:
" A group to share and explore many different genres of music: folk, classical, pop, country, oldies, world. Currently soliciting group members to contribute regular diaries on their favorite songs, composers, and all things musical. "
And, I elaborated some more of the vision in an e-mail with another group:
"An Ear for Music focusing, ...., on the "audience" side. A place to share clips of music or performance we admire, be exposed to different genres that might not be our usual fare, to educate readers about particular performers, styles, or specific pieces of music."
(This was with a view to a possible future partnership with the other group, Leitmotif; which would be focusing more on the music biz, working musicians, inside baseball, behind the scenes. We are still trying to work that out- stay tuned)
So you are pretty wide open to share almost any kind of musical interest. Hopefully those who are tuned into classical will learn something about the history of the blues, or early folk; and those who are hard rock afficionados will hear some zydeco, and.....the whole world of musical sounds and expressions is there to explore.
Schedule -
I don't know, I've never done this before! For starters, how about twice a week for sure (Tuesday and Saturday evening) with a bonus Thursday evening if we have enough growth in membership, content, etc? Chime in if you have a different idea. If you want to claim every Wednesday, or every other Friday, say so. Initial target - first original content this Saturday.
Getting started:
Message me (or reply in the diary) with the following:
1. Preliminary/draft/concept title of your first diary, and a brief description of what your diary will be about
2. When you think you can have your first diary ready to go.
3. Schedule limitations - when your diary goes up you get to be the discussion "host"; if you can't do that on particular days, or need the post to go up at a particular time on the target posting days, let it be known.
Based on the above I'll put together a draft schedule for the next few weeks, and you can start submitting your stuff to the queue.
PS - you can also push non-group diaries to the queue with the "Republish" feature, which I've done twice, so if you spot something wonderful, please do that. But we still want some original content around here, too.