All About Jazz has made several improvements to its news center and news wire service, starting with a brand new submission form. The new form requires less data entry which results in less time to submit an announcement. In addition to saving time and simplifying the process, posting news to All About Jazz now has the added benefit of reaching a focused audience through our affiliation with the Jazz Forward Coalition (an organization established to support the professional jazz community).
AAJ News Improvements
- Industry announcements are now considered for inclusion in the monthly Jazz Forward Coalition newsletter.
- We auto-complete the musician's name and related information. If the musician entered is listed at AAJ, then we'll grab some of their profile information and include it with the announcement, like their photo, their calendar dates, and links to their website, MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages.
- The character set issue has been resolved! The new form now handles international and rich text characters.
- We automatically size the various YouTube width/height dimensions to 425x344 pixels.
- Once logged in, AAJ recognizes you, so you no longer have to enter your email address.
- You can view your pending news announcement in finished form after submitting it.
- We create a short URL for each announcement so you can share it on your blog, at Facebook or on Twitter. The short URL appears next to the “Recommend" button.
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About the Jazz Forward Coalition
The Jazz Forward Coalition is a consortium of industry leaders who seek to enhance jazz's vitality and cultural relevance. Through existing and emerging technologies, JFC will develop an infrastructure suite of marketplace tools and solutions, coordinate resources and provide ongoing support services for the jazz business community. By providing a global voice to trumpet cultural and economic advocacy, JFC will cultivate opportunities to sustain growth for current and future generations of jazz professionals.
