A new thing.

     I own a business called SwingHigh Productions. We are a full service recording studio and production facility. Our niche is the Christian (CCM, Gospel, Latin Gospel) and church music markets. Another thing we offer in our production that is special to this area is live instrumentation as most of the smaller places like ours mostly do sequenced music.

     As a business owner, it’s important to have a network of professionals in and around your field be they burgeoning or veteran. Having others to glean ideas from, to exchange gigs with, and to basically form community with can be helpful to your business. Examples of this could be a studio that mainly focuses on Rap/Hip Hop production suggesting another studio to a client that wants do, say, a Classical or Jazz recording or a facility that’s in contact with a few tech / repair people who can do work on their recording gear.

     There are few ways a professional in this industry could use digital media to help boost their career. One is sites such as meetup.com (http://www.meetup.com/netmix/) can be used to get involved in regional networking events.  Linkedin has similar opportunities available like (http://www.linkedin.com/in/professionalnetworkingparties). You could use Facebook as a way to connect others as well.  You will need to do more than simply contact others in the industry to have it make any kind of difference with your career / business goals. As an audio engineer or a producer you could use your Facebook page as a means to link people to your website where they can get more info on you. Number three, Youtube is another digital media where you can post tracks of your work and hopefully gain interest. The bottom line is that there are a number of ways a person could use digital media to boost your career.