Since I’ve realized  the music-career necessity of getting plugged in to the social web, I’m discovering the Internet all over again. But how can anyone keep up with it all? So more tools…

I found a neat Firefox browser plugin called “Morning Coffee” — add the sites I want to keep track of on specific days of the week, open the tabs all at once and proceed through them to get caught up. I use Facebook more, see my friends’ posts, network more on LinkedIn, and I’m finally taking a look at Twitter. It feels more efficient, especially since I can then feel finished and move on to writing some music — something I was having a hard time doing.

I don’t really get Twitter yet. If you have any tips on how to get more out of it, please let me know! I did discover some more people/entities to follow just by searching for “classical music.” One was a  newspaper, the contemporary classical daily. (It’s a paper.li site, another type of platform for content aggregation.) So I added it to Morning Coffee, and I’ll see if it stays interesting.

What about a Sunday morning reading list? Like New Music Box, Sequenza 21, Boston Musical Intelligencer, The Rest Is Noise. What else? That’s a lot of reading!

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