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[LinkedMusicians]

Thanks, guys. I was responsible for building the site initially, but it has been the incredibly talented developer and member @lamia6 who has taken things to the next level. She has been incredibly important to this site. She’s written code that gave us new features, diagnosed and fixed design and coding issues, and improved various areas of performance and security. The whole LinkedMusicians passion project is about community, about our love and appreciation for music, our values of how to treat one another, ethics on how businesses should operate and transparency.

It’s the latter, transparency, that made me decide to share my real name. I will be very transparent that my hesitation to share my real name was related to my experiencing online harassment and threats. So this was, by no means an easy decision. I felt it was necessary for the growth of this site and for partnerships and I also realize, that it can appear a bit ironic that I’m very focused on transparency when using my pseudonym from my musician days. While my pseudonym has a great deal of history for me personally and my family, not using my real last name could easily make this project look less serious than it is. It was while working on the plan to assemble a LinkedMusicians advisory board with artists, educators/academia, and developers that I made that decision.

LinkedMusicians is largely a blank canvas. This is a robust social media platform that enables us to grow and accomplish a great deal and we’ve only scratched the surface. The biggest limitation has been the time I have to commit to it, which has been far too tied to posting deals (there’s technological progress coming on that front that will improve on what I’ve been doing and free up my time to focus on more strategic things).

The objective remains to continue developing the site and the community a non-toxic environment and a welcoming community where music creators of all experience levels and genres can learn and grow musically, and regardless of income level, find vetted, high-quality tools that inspire them. We’ve only just started on this journey.

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