29. June 2009 by admin.

 Monday June 29^th, 2009

Dallas’s very own fashionista at heart, Jacqueline Maccann launches a new social shopping network for designers in the fashion industry. From multimedia design to fashion show production, Jacqueline’s knowledge and creativity will aide in redefining the local world of fashion. As a graduate from the Art Institute of Dallas, Jacqueline’s mission has become to offer a helping hand to budding local designers giving them new and innovative ways to market and sell their products. Her company, named under a dual premise. Comes from the modern ideals of today’s social media interactions with networking as its central focus. Maccann feels that specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, ideas, and financial exchange, all play a critical role in determining the ways in which organizations are run. In its simplest form a social network is a representation of the relevant ties between individuals in any type of community.

Design society intends to strengthen it’s various users in specific areas of networking, self-promotion, and marketing. Creating an empowering environment that better serves as an outlet for designers who need to promote their individual creativity but lack the voice to do so. With DesignSociety.net, designers can market and sell products through various social networking avenues. Designsociety.net offers to provide the tools to advance each individual’s company whether: designer, photographer, model, or buyer. In addition to providing this free marketplace of ideas for designers, Design Society makes it easier to post resumes and build business contacts by sharing an on-line profile with the world. Including features such as adding digital portfolios, video uploads, and individual listing in DesignSociety.net’s exclusive business directory.

In celebration of the launch of it’s newly created website Design Society is hosting a drawing with the winning prize set to giveaway a brand new search engine optimized website worth $600! In order to enter, designers participating in the contest must upload product photos (no posting fees involved) to DesignSociety.net no later than Monday the July 15^th. The winner to be announced by July 20^th, 2009.

Website: http://designsociety.net

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21. May 2009 by Candace Carlisle.

 http://www.brokenearproductions.com

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13. May 2009 by admin.

Calling all Austin ladies, come check out Broken Ear Productions this Thursday at Cuba Libra for Martini & Manicure Night!

Come have a drink, (maybe two) get your nails done, and shop Broken Ear Production’s cool upcycled and creative jewelry and totally rad handmade clutches and bags. Be on the lookout for a special Martini & Manicure Night discount!

Click here to check out her stuff online www.brokenearproductions.com

www.cubalibreaustin.com

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20. April 2009 by admin.

Time goes by so fast….Wow already nearing the end of April, crazy! Well, earlier this month I started on a project and enlisted the talented Trevor Ray Thompson to take some excellent (I might add) shots of Jason Blanchette of Lost Werks.

(click here to check out Jason’s music)

Electric Promotions is currently working on vamping up the Lost Werks Myspace page & website. So be on the look out for this up and coming artist!

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19. April 2009 by admin.

Diane Gilleland of Crafty Pod has just released a new Ebook that gives an incredible depth of information to people looking to blog about creative subjects. The 49-page Making a Great Blog: A Guide For Creative People focuses on building a blog with strong content and explores building connections within the blogging community.

It’s designed for beginning bloggers, and for more experienced bloggers who need to get re-inspired. And most importantly, it’s written specifically for art and craft bloggers.

Making a Great Blog is brilliant in its straightforward, easy-to-follow guidance on how to determine the why, when, what and how a craft writer should develop their blog. Diane’s approach to blog development gets the author working on the deeper issues of their content and leaves the nuts and blots of setting up a blog to the generous online resource section. When a person can have a blog up and running in a matter of minutes, it’s incredibly refreshing to see a point of view that encourages pause for thought before hitting “publish” and going to town with a new blog. I read hundreds of craft blogs every single day, and the ideas and methods Diane introduces in her book would make each and every one of those blogs better.

Making a Great Blog walks the reader through easy exercises (with 8 handy worksheets!) that brings motivation, inspiration and endurance front and center for the blog reader. This form of self-publishing is a fantastic medium, but because it’s so easy to dive in to, it often doesn’t get the attention and focus that other media do. Blogs clearly, though, are a huge component of new media and the blogs that will not only survive but thrive and lead to new opportunities are ones that follow the exact steps Diane has outlined in her book. Even if a writer’s intention isn’t to earn income or catch the eye of a publisher, the more thoughtful approach to blogging that Diane advocates in Making a Great Blog is something any writer should aspire to, and something every reader will appreciate.

Don’t think that Making a Great Blog is just for newbies, either. Long-time bloggers will find new inspiration and will learn a few tips and tricks for keeping ideas fresh and for avoiding Blogfade. (you’ll have to get the book for that brilliant little bit of verbiage) I found myself newly excited to beef up my personal craft blog and felt renewed sense of motivation after reading the book. What’s even better is that Diane’s handy worksheets and tips help to harness that newfound excitement into purposeful habits.

Simply put, if you have a craft blog or have toyed with the idea of starting one, Making a Great Blog should be considered required reading. Diane’s expertise is rich, and is rooted in years of successful blogging, networking, researching, experimenting, sharing and plain old perspiration. Her blog and podcast, Crafty Pod, was recently referred to in the New York Times as an “influential blog and podcast.” She’s blogged regularly and thoroughly for several years, and has written for multiple craft publications. Her book, Kanzashi in Bloom, will be released this summer. She’s taken her years of experience and has extracted the most fundamental ideas and laid them out beautifully in Making a Great Blog. In addition, she’s developed an extensive online resource section to accompany the book. All of this for less than it would cost to see a movie and buy a soda.

Here are some of the highlights of Making a Great Blog:
- Diane’s exploration of the benefits of a good blog will inspire new bloggers and will remind veteran bloggers why they started in the first place.
- Her tips and tricks on avoiding Blogfade would keep even the most finicky blogger afloat.
- The chapter on imagery provides simple techniques for boosting the look of your blog that anyone can follow.
- She addresses blog etiquette in a thoughtful, professional way that I wish every blogger would pay attention to.

Making a Great Blog: A Guide For Creative People by Diane Gilleland
49-page EBook, including 8 worksheets
Extensive Online Resource Guide
$12.50 for Downloadable EBook

-by Rachel Hobson

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28. January 2009 by admin.

AUSTIN, TX, January 28, 2009 – Anne Marie Beard & Allison Wall, owners of The Bearded Ladies Present, are quite excited about showcasing vendors for their upcoming Shop Austin event, which is being produced this April, and is considered to be the first show of its kind.

All media, vendor, contributor, or sponsorship inquiries for the event should contact via email: info@thebeardedladiespresent.com

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14. January 2009 by admin.

I stumbled across this site in the most random of ways, but I feel it has the potential to do a lot for unsigned & signed musicians who are local to Austin. So I encourage all musicians to stop by and give this site a little love because I think it has the potential to give it right back!

Sign Up for a user account, sign up so you can start rating music. In the near future, those ratings will gain a bit more significance to both Users and Artists. If you’ve been playing along at home, you know we are working on site upgrades and a little surprise for Artists. Songs ratings will play a part in that surprise. So, if you are an Artist, get your fans here now to rate your music and be ahead of the curve!

To all you musicians looking for a good CD pressing plant, steer clear of Triple Disc Media. Check out the blog for more…

http://www.twogroove.com

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12. January 2009 by admin.

HI-RO MUSIC FEST at The Austin Music Hall
(280 Nueces Austin TX 78701, Austin, Texas 78701)
Cost is $40.00 to get in. Purchase Tix

On January 24, 2009, Power Music Movement in conjunction with Brand Ur Band will redefine the Austin Music Scene with the First Annual “Hi-Ro Music Fest, Hip Hop and Rock Nature Tour.” The festival will rock the“Live Music Capital of the World” and bring new life to indie music by bringing musicians of all genres together to create a movement. This movement is geared to empower indie musicians by educating them and  giving their music a true voice on a local, national, international and even corporate level. Indie Musicians will also learn to create bond with their fans, giving fans the “ultimate concert-going experience.”

Power Music Movement is an event planning and entertainment work shop company which prides itself on bringing years of experience in the music industry to create a concept, educate the musicians, and createt  he “ultimate concert-going experience.” Thus they have created Brand Ur Band. Brand Ur Band is giving indie artists a platform to join forces with platinum artists and give them the extra “push” they need for their band to be successful. Grammy Award-winning De La Soul will be headlining the festival, along with Big Red Rooster, Zeale, DirtyWormz, Loona C, Dreamt the End, DJ LX, Crash Gallery, The Fanatics,Omega Red, Pimpin Pen, Goodnight Goddess, Dawn Over Zero and John Pointer. The event will be held at the Austin Music Hall and doors will open at 12:00pm. This will be an all day event and tickets will be $40.

“This festival is purposely designed to create a more intimate setting for fans to connect with national artists or bands they know and the unsigned acts they don’t know! This allows Hi-Ro Music Fest to make itvery well known that we support local artists in every major city we plan to land in because, “From Fans to Bands, We Make it Happen””

~Damar Howard, Founder of Power Music Movement

There will also be a Brand Ur Band After Party at a venue to be announced at the show. This party will feature surprise performances, a show you will NOT want to miss!

Hi-Ro Music Fest, Hip-Hop and Rock, Nature Tour at Austin Music Festival. Tickets are $40 for an all day event and are available at www.gettix.net, Waterloo Records All Run Tex locations, Monarch Event Center, and the University Co-op. For more information go to www.powermusicmovement.com.

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10. January 2009 by admin.

So, it was fun times at the Beauty Bar last night… Vinyl Entertainment put together a fun sioree, for Built by Snow, Bankrupt & the Borrowers, PJ & the Bear, and DJ Markus w/a K at the Beauty Bar. This photo taken by Trevor Ray Thompson Photography. I recommend using his services for your next party.

Also…I have to point out the lovely LeighElena enamel ring I am wearing (it is the giant green one I’m sporting on my index finger). If you love it like I do stop by any Whole Foods in the Southwest to pick up one of your very own or check out her website for the location of her next local show.

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18. November 2008 by admin.

This event is a great way to create a buzz for your local business and to support the 1rst Annual Shopping event produced by the Beard sisters.

Sign-up today to become a sponsor and get featured on thebeardedladiespresent.com website, listed in press releases, a feature ad in the program, web banner, invite listing, your companies logo on The Bearded Ladies Present: Shop Austin t-shirts, free tickets to the event, and more.

Visit http://www.thebeardedladiespresent.com/become_a_sponsor.html to sign-up & let them know Electric Promotions sent you!

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