Shaun Groves
The new website (donations still needed to build) will combine the shock of shlog.com with the awe of shaungroves.com to provide visitors with a combined shock and awe cyberspace experience. Ok, so it’s just a web site. I’m just trying to get you as excited as I am about the possibilities here.
In essence the new site will combine the business/fan components of shaungroves.com (such as booking and contacts and tour schedule) with the content, connectivity and interaction of shlog.com. We’ll fuze the shaungroves.com message board with the comments of SHLOG.COM in a way I’ve never seen before. Every post on a blog will become a “thread” in the message board. So, you guys can comment on stuff I throw out in blog form but also create topics of your own to discuss.
In addition to all this will be two more blogs on “music” and “writing”. In the music blog I’ll post from the road, about other artists and songs, journal the making of my own music and anything related to, well, music. In the writing blog I’ll be able to post articles I write for various magazines today, parts of books in progress or entire books, write about other authors and their books and articles I found interesting. And of course we’ll still have the SHLOG blog, essentially everything else I want to write about.
But wait, there’s more. You’ll be able to earn money by sending people to my on-line store, subscribe to a newsletter, watch videos, hear music, see moblogs from the road, listen to podcasts, download e-books and free music. And all this in one site.
What else would you like to see on the new site?
Aiming to please,
Shaun
Anonymous says:
It would please me for your new site to make me brownies.
Krisy says:
There’s a lot of good writers out there with good things to say, but all too often they aren’t given a chance. It would be awesome to run a contest, or maybe even have a section of the site, where people could submit their writings to give another perspective. Maybe even offer ebooks from pretty much unknown and unpublished authors.
Just a thought.
Duda Mano says:
Oh, since you’re aiming to please, my wife will arrive late at home tonight… I’d be pleased if your new site cooked my dinner!
Ok,enough with the food jokes, the Hillsong Church (Australia) have an annual “cover contest” for their new album cover… the artist who does the best job gets a free copy of the record.
Well, I guess many of your fans know their way around Photoshop, enough to design a cool album cover… why don’t your do that? That would be nice for a few reasons:
1. You may or may not use the winners design, but maybe we could dicover some talented people who could work for other musicians for a reasonable price, instead of the fortune those big designers charge us.
2. We would have lots of fun voting for the best cover.
3. I thnk that, in some way, by doing that we, your fans, would be more involved in your music, since we could be a part of the creative process.
That´s it for now…
Peace!
Eduardo Mano
Rio de Janeiro | Brazil