The Ethics of Crowdsourcing

Recommended short video by Futurist Ross Dawson for everybody who plans to source funds from the crowd: Discussion of the Ethics of crowdsourcing.

A Book Recommendation: The App Effect

Recommending: "Almost overnight, display devices and multi-touch have become the normal user experience. The biggest constant however are our personal apps. In this book we sketch out these major developments in technology and human information behavior. And, in particular, focus on their business impact.

Apps on display devices are “merely” the heart of the issue. What really matters is that this irresistible force works in tandem to create new information behavior that already has begun to profoundly impact organizations. The App Effect will leave a lasting mark on our interaction with products and services.

“We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.” Never has this been more true than in the present mobile revolution, as Paul Hermelin, Vice-Chairman and CEO of the Capgemini Group, states in his foreword to The App Effect. The following 10 fundamental App Effects and attendant business implications are ...read on."

ExaTrends of the Decade: Reputation Economy

Futurist Ross Dawson shares these insights into major trends: the reputation economy. A short video worth watching for everybody whose business model targets the public and who seeks to expand their audience. For more see www.rossdawson.com.

Spotify: € 0.007 per stream? What’s all that about?

Just found this on digital distribution service iMusician Digital's blog: "This is a difficult one because we love Spotify and would go as far as to say that with Spotify (Simfy, Rdio, MOG, MyJuke etc) for the first time, we have a music service that just makes sense.  It’s just these pitiful payments which leave a bitter taste in our mouths.  Spotify pays us 0.007 EUR per stream so you make about 0.0059 EUR though depending on whether the listener has the free, unlimited or premium versions, it can be more. But it still means your next beer just cost you 840 streams…read on and leave your comments."

Midem 2012 - Quick Review

For all those who couldn't make it to Cannes end of January, here is a quick review of Midem 2012. The event's organisor prepared an exclusive summary of the show's key news and events, be they music business, technology, brand or artist-focused. 
Read here.

The Universe is a Symphony of Vibrating Strings

As music is one of Seven Beland's business fields, we sometimes like to take rather unusual approaches to this wonderful art. Professor of physics Michio Kaku has an interesting point of view:

Musikbusiness E-Book: "CD machen - und dann?"

For our German Readers in Switzerland:

Seit unseren MBiz Workshops 2010 zu haben: Praxisorientiertes E-Book für alle unabhängigen Musiker/innen, Produzenten und Interpreten. Der Leitfaden bietet viele Tipps, Hinweise, Adressen und weiterführende Links rund um die Themen Vertrieb und Promotion im Schweizer Musikmarkt und dient als Hilfestellung, um als Musikschaffende/r seine Kunst eigenständig zu verbreiten.

Erschienen am 5.4.2011 auf » lulu.com, € 18.90, PDF 60 Seiten A4 auf allen Computern und mobilen Geräten.