Since I’ve realized\u00a0 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…<\/p>\n
I found a neat Firefox browser plugin called “Morning Coffee<\/a>” — 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.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0 newspaper, the contemporary classical daily<\/a>. (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.<\/p>\n What about a Sunday morning reading list? Like New Music Box<\/a>, Sequenza 21<\/a>, Boston Musical Intelligencer<\/a>, The Rest Is Noise<\/a>. What else? That’s a lot of reading!<\/p>\n