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		<title>SOUNDZ Hits 50 Releases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomkihl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dance music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DJs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hype]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami WMC]]></category>
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Congtratulations on reaching a release milestone go out to one of our record label clients this month. SOUNDZ, the forward-thinking deep house and techno imprint &#8211; for whom Alchemy Content provide online profile and promotional services &#8211; celebrates it&#8217;s 50th release with a corking track from the prolific Hakan Lidbo, featuring haunting vocals from Melpo [...]]]></description>
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Congtratulations on reaching a release milestone go out to one of our record label clients this month. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/soundzlimited">SOUNDZ</a>, the forward-thinking deep house and techno imprint &#8211; for whom Alchemy Content provide online profile and promotional services &#8211; celebrates it&#8217;s 50th release with a corking track from the prolific Hakan Lidbo, featuring haunting vocals from Melpo Mene. </p>
<p>The package contains no less than 3 different remixes from X-Press 2 and has already been given full support by the trio in their sets and charts, plus picked up on by a wide range of international DJs since first emerging at Miami WMC back in March. For this key release, content assets include streams of the track, images and a doc containing <a href="http://bit.ly/9iEaqt">interviews with Hakan and Rocky</a> for press/bloggers to use for quotations or in their entirity. All supported across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and beyond.</p>
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<p>There&#8217;s plenty more to come from SOUNDZ and it&#8217;s legendary house music-focused sister label, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/slipnslidemusic">Slip N Slide</a>, over the coming months. As online streaming, Twitter and mobile all become increasingly central to the promotion of new tracks, the importance of a good content generation and management package becomes ever more obvious.<br />
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		<title>Jeff Goldblum? Harrison Ford? Michael Jackson. Chinese whispers.</title>
		<link>http://alchemycontent.com/blog/social-media/jeff-goldblum-harrison-ford-michael-jackson-chinese-whispers</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomkihl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the internet is currently grinding to a halt with reaction to Michael Jackson&#8217;s untimely death. And naturally it&#8217;s a field day for consipracy theorists and rumour mongers already. (Who placed a bet the O2 gigs wouldn&#8217;t happen?)
But, with a couple of other celeb deaths today, the intriguing &#8216;news&#8217; out there at the moment is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So the internet is currently grinding to a halt with reaction to Michael Jackson&#8217;s untimely death. And naturally it&#8217;s a field day for consipracy theorists and rumour mongers already. (Who placed a bet the O2 gigs wouldn&#8217;t happen?)</p>
<p>But, with a couple of other celeb deaths today, the intriguing &#8216;news&#8217; out there at the moment is of the &#8216;death&#8217; of Jeff Goldblum in a fall while on a movie set, and of Harisson Ford variously going missing on a boat/helicopter, presumed crashed. We read they are both currently working on the same movie. I&#8217;d love to know the origins of these &#8217;stories&#8217;. Could it even have a distant PR connection?</p>
<p>Every week we see how tools like Twitter are shaping the instant nature of global communication &#8211; and how the worst, gossipy tendencies of us as a species are magnified along with the unquestionably liberating power that comes with all this too.</p>
<p>At times like this the mainstream newspaper sites start to look a vital, rather than shaky proposition. But newsrooms deciding on tomorrow&#8217;s headlines have got a tough task trying to keep up with the user driven aspects of an &#8216;event&#8217; story like MJ tonight. They also better beware of printing misinformation pulled from any source (Jackson &#8217;suicide&#8217;, anybody?) &#8211; trust no site until this gossip frenzy has calmed down.</p>
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		<title>Swine Flu’s Media Sex Appeal</title>
		<link>http://alchemycontent.com/blog/social-media/swine-flu%e2%80%99s-media-sex-appeal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomkihl</dc:creator>
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News of a potential global flu pandemic is content gold for news outlets. Did anyone see the Sky News feature running yesterday complete with gratuitous scary music?! With the continuing assault on ad revenues and competition for audiences, it’s fair to say that this sort of story is going to be worked for all it’s [...]]]></description>
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<p>News of a potential global flu pandemic is content gold for news outlets. Did anyone see the Sky News feature running yesterday complete with gratuitous scary music?! With the continuing assault on ad revenues and competition for audiences, it’s fair to say that this sort of story is going to be worked for all it’s worth.</p>
<p>With the professional media pushing the hype levels into overdrive for their own reasons, the gossip driven world of social media is understandably awash with even more made up nonsense and irresponsible scaremongering.</p>
<p>Certainly a quick dip into the flow of <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swineflu">#swineflu</a> tweets provides some wildly inflated, totally unofficial death tolls, misinformation about eating pork and, of course, plenty of ‘this is God’s punishment’ type messages. If this does become the first pandemic of a wired world, the effects of all this chatter could create unnecessary panic and seriously compound the problems. But one way that authorities charged with minimising the impact of the outbreak could counteract our natural urge to sensationalise would be to be on top of technologies like Twitter with their official voice. </p>
<p>As we are constantly saying, today’s media is about the conversation. And the channels of that communication are constantly developing. Organisations will be left behind if they don’t keep abreast of the very latest ways to get their message across, particularly when there is the sudden need to act fast, as in this Swine Flu case.</p>
<p>Even with a full, official digital profile in place, the hype will still be circulating at pace via all forms of media. At times like these it’s hugely important for us all to take a savvy, level-headed approach to all we read, no matter what the source. </p>
<p>People are probably already better at filtering messages than we collectively believe they are, but human nature is still prone to herd mentality. As an exercise in developing media filtering skills, something that we’re going to need to be really good at, this particular news story could be one of our biggest tests yet.<br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2009/04/25/track-swine-flu/"><br />
Check out Mashable’s list of ways to track swine flu coverage properly.</a></p>
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