TraceTV – Film – Music – Social Media

Hav­ing worked in “tra­di­tional” media (tele­vi­sion) for more than 20 years, I have been astounded at the growth of social media and it’s impact on how we do busi­ness as free­lance media pro­fes­sion­als. It’s also appar­ent to me that many of my col­leagues in tele­vi­sion and music pro­duc­tion are not tak­ing part in this rev­o­lu­tion, often because of a lack of under­stand­ing of how it all works.
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Free­lance Media Pro­fes­sional Tracy Ready speaks about his expe­ri­ence in learn­ing social media skills to pro­mote small busi­ness. Included is list of Top 3 skills to attract more fol­low­ers on Twit­ter, Face­book and other Social Media sites. This is first in series of 10 videos on this and related top­ics. Free newslet­ter at TraceTV-Film-Music-Social Media blog
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South Texas Soul: The San Anto­nio Sound – Augie Mey­ers, Doug Sahm and the his­tory and influ­ence of South Texas on pop­u­lar music of today. Doc­u­men­tary film­maker Tracy Ready exam­ines the influ­ence of Ger­man, Pol­ish and Irish immi­grants in South Texas on pop­u­lar music styles includ­ing Coun­try, Tejano, Blues and Rock and Roll, from a unique perspective.

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Orig­i­nally posted on Feb. 16, 2009: The Aquar­ium Con­cept
If you like these ideas please fol­low The Aquar­ium Con­cept on Twit­ter
This dude has one awe­some “real” aquarium »

The Aquar­ium Concept.

Pretty sight, isn’t it? It’s not mine, in fact, I have never had suc­cess tak­ing care of trop­i­cal fish. It’s just not my “thing”, even though I enjoy scenes like this. I do have an “aquar­ium” of sorts, but it has no glass, rock or water, only thoughts and dreams. My aquar­ium was a total mess for a long time, until I came to terms with this:

In order for things to flour­ish, they must have a good envi­ron­ment. This goes for peo­ple and fish and ideas too. You can have an aquar­ium, with some beau­ti­ful young fish but if you don’t take care of them (as I found out at age 10) soon algae grows in the tank, the fish start look­ing sickly, and then die off. Sounds sim­ple, and it is, but look­ing at your life and your goals this way takes a lit­tle prac­tice. It’s the same with ideas, projects, art, poetry, music, film, video, job search, fam­ily rela­tions; what­ever the pas­sion, the aquar­ium con­cept holds true.
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(Orig­i­nal post: Decem­ber 31, 2008)

It’s New Years Eve, 2008; Wow! what an amaz­ing year it’s been, through the tumul­tuous elec­tion process and down­turn in econ­omy, we are still hang­ing in here, and feel quite blessed to be at home with fam­ily today. Among other things, this has been a year in which I delved head­long into social net­work­ing, and it has been fun and reward­ing for me both per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally. I have gath­ered a few thoughts here, that I hope will ben­e­fit oth­ers, so here we go…

Con­nec­tions are impor­tant, but con­tent is pow­er­ful.
I was resis­tant to the social net­work­ing / blog­ging idea until I began to see the hid­den poten­tial for my busi­nesses, and our devel­op­ing music and doc­u­men­tary film projects.
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