As
we progress into our 15th year, new ideas and projects continue to present themselves.
We are excited to be meeting at our new venue this month, we have a new and improved
YouTube channel, we’re working to update our website to be mobile-friendly and
we want to extend the Songwriter Summit experience beyond the confines of our
wonderful new meeting location.
Technology
is something many of us embrace, though many of us don’t have a full grasp of
its uses and capabilities. I don’t mean musical technology but social media
technology. We have many friends and followers who are simply too far away to
attend our meetings on a regular basis. As it is, several of our members are troopers
when it comes to attendance. Chuck Picklesimer drives in from West Virginia as
often as the weather and his work schedule allows, Rick Bruening comes in from
Pennsylvania when he can, and Bob Sammon along with Ken Moody-Arndt make the trek
south from Cleveland every month to share their songs and thoughts.
We
will soon be experimenting with the concepts of Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and
other concepts that would allow us to share our meetings with a virtual audience.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to share our meeting in real time with former
member
Terry
Richardson in the U. K.? (If he’s allowed to stay up that late!) What if other
songwriter organizations could watch our meetings live and maybe even comment