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4. Barbershopper Help Needed
Posted by: "Martin Grandahl" martingrandahl@... martingrandahl
Date: Fri Dec 5, 2008 11:40 pm ((PST))

[this is being sent to the Harmonet as well, so you may receive a
duplicate]

It's getting kind of ridiculous. I have a sort of half-vast* website
going - the Afterglow Lounge. I have tags, barbershop wallpaper, a
forum, and a few surprises still to come.

There was a time that I could keep up on it my own...sort of. But
there's too much to do now, and I don't have the time that I used to.

So....I'm putting out a call for help. I need help in two main areas:

::: Tags
1: Tag research
I need someone to get music/lyrics/copyright info on tags, and
to contact arrangers for permission to post their tags.
2: New tags
Find new tags, research them, and enter them into Finale (I'm
open on software choice if you have a good argument). Post them
on the website.

::: Forum
I want the forum to be a fun social place for barbershoppers. We
currently have the Harmonet and Facebook as hangouts (and some people
on myspace, I believe)....so why do we need a forum?

I'm not trying to replace any of the current places, of course...I
just think there's a couple positives about forums that creates a
niche.....

- Once you join, you're immediately part of the community. There's no
building of a friends network before you can begin being social.
Everyone can join in the conversations.

- People can be individually ignored if they become annoying. If they
become offensive, they can be temporarily or permanently banned.

So I need someone to help me administrate the forum....watch for
abuses and ban spammers....but I also need people to help me promote
the forum and create topics of conversation to keep things active.


This could be a single person, or it could be some young punk that
stays up until 6AM every weekend singing tags that wants to be a part
of the tags, but has no interest in the forum, with a social
non-singer barbershop fan helping on the forum. :) Ideally, I'd love
having several people helping out on the site.

None of the jobs are difficult or time consuming - and I have things
set up so that very little knowledge is required - everything is
automated, so it's just a matter of filling out forms - no HTML or
anything like that required.


Also, I'd be happy to host barbershop themed wallpapers designed by
other people. And if you have any other ideas on how the Lounge might
grow, I'd love to hear them. I hate that the site has been so
inactive when it could be such a great resource. I just need some
help.....I promise it'll even be fun. :)



Contact me if you have any interest in helping in any of these areas.



* an old director's joke. He said one night that his "knowledge is
vast....well....half-vast..." :)


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Martin Grandahl
theafterglowlounge.org/forum <-- maybe?