Chat with Rhonda Vincent–Next Monday

Country Music Chat welcomes Rhonda Vincent as guest on Monday July 30nd from8-9pmCT. 

You can participate in #CMchat by clicking on the hashtag, or using #CMchatin your tweets so they will show up in the stream for other cha tparticipants to view.

Another way to view the chat is to use this linkhttp://bit.ly/countrymusicchat and it will let you see the conversation in real-time at your own speed (its adjustable) and #CMchat hashtag will automatically appear on your tweets. **If you are on Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or on the Twitter.com platform just click on the #CMchat hashtag and a window should open for you that will segregate the #CMchat tweets.

Webinar Teaches How To Promote Using Twitter!

IBMA Offers April 17 Webinar: "Tweeting Your Way to Success- How to Effectively Use Twitter to Promote Your Band, Bluegrass Event or Business"

Join industry veteran and former IBMA board member Andrea Compton , an Associate Professor of St. Charles Community College in St. Charles, Missouri on April 17 from 5:30-7 p.m. CDT for the next IBMA webinar: "Tweeting Your Way to Success - How to effectively use Twitter to promote your band, bluegrass event or business."

South by Southwest Conference Is Launching Pad for Latest Mobile and Social Media Applications

We’ve reported before on this conference that happens every spring in Austin, TX but only as it has pertained to the bluegrass community. 

True, the SXSW annual music, film, and interactive conference and festival is much more than just one genre or even artistic discipline but their success is undeniable.  With that thought, we attempt here to venture beyond our usual bluegrass boundaries in hopes that our favorite music style can learn and grow from the best practices of another conference with similar goals.

Below is a  very detailed graphic of some of the most popular apps that have sprung from SXSW including the ever popular Twitter who began there in 2007.   The graphic is courtesy of Matt Anderson and his team at

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Please use the comment section below to give us your thoughts about how the bluegrass community could approach our industry  and annual conference using same or similar ideas.   Whether you may be for or against such attempts, please let us hear your views.    Thank You!