Yes, it’s been a minute between posts, but I’ve been insanely busy working on projects with my new digital consultancy, Digital Strategy Works.

Netmix has been this pro-hobby, if that makes any sense. I’ve actually been working full time and going to school at NYU for the last 5-years. I graduated in May with a Bachelor Degree in Digital Communications and Media.

While I love writing this blog, it hasn’t been my first priority. I know that shows given the time between posts, but I try my best to update when I can. Given the economic turmoil we’ve faced over the last few years and the demise of the music business as we once knew it, I knew it was important to focus on work first and the hobby second. I always say, you have to have a base from which to work.

Okay, so even though I always say it, I ended up throwing that advice out the window—sort of.

In November, I left my full-time job. Yes, in this economy, I actually LEFT my job! I know. Call me crazy. I’d been working for a web development company in Long Island, but I really missed the New York City digital media and music scene. Long Island just wasn’t where I wanted to be every day. I felt really disconnected from the community. It was time to make a change.

I was passing up so many opportunities making the 3-hour+ commute. I’d been running myself ragged going back and forth. Not only was I missing out on all the nightly Meetup.com events and other entrepreneur and start-up gatherings, I was wearing myself down in the process.

If that wasn’t enough to do, I’d also taken on the side role of Director of Interactive for the National Museum of Hip-Hop. And, along with DJ Ming, Harold Stephan and DJ Chad North, we’ve been running 20dot20, a monthly networking event for the interactive and advertising music industry. Between driving back and forth to Long Island, Netmix, and my other extracurricular activities, I decided to go back to entrepreneurship.

Given my 15-years of web development experience, I thought I might as well just launch Digital Strategy Works and put that knowledge to work. This new addition to the Netmix Media portfolio provides strategy digital media consulting services to individuals, entrepreneurs, start-ups and corporations with a focus on the media & entertainment industry, including music, nightlife, fashion, film and television. We’re building web sites on Wordpress and Drupal, e-commerce platforms on Magento, and mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad.

It all starts with the planning and execution of a measurable end-to-end digital strategy that makes an impact. In today’s competitive online marketplace, an effective digital strategy is executed across an array of online and mobile applications. This includes nformation architecture and user experience design, creative direction and graphic design, web and mobile development, search engine optimization, e-commerce and monetization, and social media and online marketing. There are so many things to know. Since that’s what we do everyday, we’ve become experts in the field and are passing on that knowledge to you.

Please visit the web site at http://www.digitalstrategyworks.com to read more about Netmix Media’s latest addition. We’re currently offering 2-hours of Wordpress consultation through March 31 for $250.

After a long break, I’m back with a new 180-minute Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast. Has it been a year already? I guess so. Life kind of got in the way. I’m brushing off the laptop cobwebs and putting together a hot mix for the holidays.

There are 29 tracks in this mix, which is approximately 3 hours and 8 minutes. I inadvertently used Lukas Greenberg’s “A New System” twice. I don’t know what I was thinking, but enjoy it two times around, because it is a slammin track!

1. No Turning Back – Original Mix – Gui Boratto – Kompakt
2. Libellules – Original Mix – Agoria – InFine Music
3. Praise You – Fatboy Slim vs. Fedde Le Grand Remix – Fatboy Slim, Fedde Le Grand – Skint Records
4. Feels Like I’m Dancin – Ahmet Sendil Remix – Ahmet Sendil, Sivana – Bazooka
5. 73 Tomtom Avenue – Jimpster Mix – Jimpster, David K – Tsuba
6. The Rhythm Track – Jimpster Remix – Jimpster, Milton Jackson – Freerange Records
7. A New System – Lukas Greenberg ‘Drift’ Mix – Ross Couch, Lukas Greenberg – Body Rhythm Records
8. Stoppage Time – Reshuffle Remix – Guy Gerber, Niv Hadas – Bedrock Records
9. Dance Bits – Original Mix – Tek DiLuxe – Overline Records
10. Acid – Lost In Acid Ausfahrt Mix – David Tort – Strictly Rhythm
11. Good Life – Original Mix – Kim Fai – Size Records
12. I Like House Music – Original Mix – DJ PP – Soulman Music
13. I’m Gonna Get You – Remix – Bizarre Inc. – S2
14. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Tee’s Mix – Snap – Arista
15. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Armand Van Helden Remix – Snap – N/A
16. Balearic – Original Mix – Submission DJ – Tribal Spain
17. Can I Get……?! – Matthias Meyer Remix – Matthias Meyer, Alex Niggemann – Supernature
18. That Feeling – DJ Chus 2010 Revisited Mix – DJ Chus, The Groove Foundation     Defected
19. Amalfino – Original Mix – Kaiserdisco – MBF
20. Wobble Night – Original Mix – Remerc – Greelpound
21. Je T’aime – Carlo Lio Mix – Kolombo, Carlo Lio – Hotfingers
22. Empty Trash – Original Mix – Joris Voorn – Rejected
23. A New System – Lukas Greenberg ‘Drift’ Mix – Ross Couch, Lukas Greenberg – Body Rhythm Records
24. Matter – Original Vocal Mix – Matteo Marini – Deeperfect Records
25. To The Six – Original Mix – Boom Jinx, Andrew Bayer – Anjunadeep
26. Who Dares To Believe In Me? – Martijn Ten Velden Remix – Martijn Ten Velden, The Believers – Strictly Rhythm
27. Joy – Original Mix – Butch – Bangbang!
28. Celebrate – Original Mix – Manuel De La Mare, Matteo Matteini – Hotfingers
29. Hidden Source – Original Mix – Daniele Papini – Break New Soil

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Mindshare: The Party flyer

Netmix.com and Zaah Technologies present Mindshare at Label Lounge, where Music Technology professionals meet New Media folks for a night of networking, music and play.

DJ Tony Z makes his return to the DJ booth to blend warm house vibes from the tech house, techno and deep house genres. DJ Madsol Desar puts a classic vibes house set together.

From 7 to 9 PM, the networking gets started with a $4 Happy Hour(s) drinks special on beer and mixed drinks.

Our Netmix gift-bag raffle takes place at 10 PM. With the purchase of a drink between 9 pm and 10 pm, get a ticket for the raffle and you’ll have a chance to win the following:

10 gift-bags will be raffled off. Each bag includes separate items donated by various partners, including New Riders, RockYourReligion.com, PhetusExclusives.com, BM Linx, Kristine W, Threadless.com, 622Photography.com, Zaah Technologies and more.

• A $50 T-Shirt Coupon Code from our friends at Threadless.com
• An 11 x 17 print of “The Colored President”: a portrait of Barak Obama by urban artist, Vic Nisoci (ArtWeCan.com). The original oil on canvas was donated to Russell Simmons Hip Hop Summit Action Network’s Hip Hop Inaugural Ball; it will be auctioned later next month.
• The new dance single, “Never,” by accomplished dance artist, Kristine W.
• A pre-release album from BM Linx entitled “Black Entertainment”
• Designing for the Social Web (Voices That Matter) by Joshua Porter (New Riders, 2 copies) – ISBN 0321534921
• SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate (Voices That Matter) by Joel Postman (New Riders, 2 copies) – ISBN: 0321580087
• Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Voices That Matter) by Susan M. Weinschenk (New Riders, 2 copies) – ISBN: 0321603605
• A special Netmix Podcast MP3 Data CD, containing 3 Netmix Podcast MP3’s – Subscribe to the Netmix Podcast Feed at: http://tinyurl.com/5wqm3m
• Netmix/Phetus Exclusives T-Shirts (5) from Urban Art inspired brand, PhetusExclusives.com
• A Peace Pendant from RockYourReligion (1)
• 100 Free Prints from PhotoMama.com
• 15% off of photography services from 622photography.com
• A hardcover copy of “Outliers,” the latest book by Malcolm Gladwell

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Kristine W "Never"

Okay, so we’ve been kind of quiet here at Netmix over the last week and a half, since the Minitek Festival concluded The reason? Well, I’ve started a new full-time gig as VP of Product & Business Development at Zaah Technologies in Farmingdale, NY, about an hour from my home in Westchester. Getting into the swing of things on multiple projects and products is time intensive and has taken my daily focus off the blog for a minute.

Given that my commute is an hour from my home in Westchester County, if I could blog while driving, that would be a wonderful thing. Maybe I can v-blog my thoughts from the car! Kind of like a cross between “Taxi Cab Confessions” and a NASCAR event. Driving the Long Island Expressway everyday sure sharpens your driving skills. I just hope I don’t pick up the Long Island accent!

I’ve been a client of Zaah’s for the past three years on multiple projects, including StarStyle, where I was VP of Music Services, as well as a few consulting projects I worked on in tandem with White Space Group, a product strategy and digital incubator run by my friend and former StarStyle CEO, Ashley Heather.

On top of of all that, I also started my final two classes at NYU. This semester, I’m taking Database Design and Final Cut Pro. Now, I already know Final Cut to some extent, but I could use a refresher. And, who wants to write papers in their last semester? Not I!

In December, I’ll graduate with the Bachelor degree that eluded me all these years. I can literally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Actually, I do have one credit left to complete, as I only transferred in 9 credits when I started the program in 2003. Because of the odd number of credits transferred in, it’s left me with a single straggler. To complete the credit, I might do a study abroad in Digital Photography in either Abu Dhabi or Florence. My girlfriend, Missy, and I are looking into the options and she’s helping in the decision-making process.

I’d love to go to Florence again. Spend three weeks in Italy? I’m not mad at that. Will be awesome to have that experience. I’ve been to Florence, Sienna and Rome, but only for a week. I’d love to take an Italian class while I work on my digital photography skills and bring some Italian culture into the Net-mix!

In additon to all of this, I’ve been working on two projects with one of my partners, Madsol Desar. The first is assisting a client in Chicago in securing a performance by the modern queen of Salsa, La India. Confirmed just yesterday, La India will perform at the Congress Theatre in Chicago. The event is a combined voter registration drive and networking opportunity. A popular Chicago DJ will play music around the performance, which is expected to last 75 to 90 minutes. Should be a great show.

Another event Madsol and I had been working on was a b’day party for Blacksmith Music’s President, Corey Smyth, at New York’s hottest new downtown nightspot, Santos Party House. The event, which took place last night, was heavily attended by the who’s who of hip hop, including Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Jeru the Damaga and DJ Pete Rock. Pete layed down a heavy set and was on point. I was running around too much to get a slice of that birthday cake. Maybe next year!

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The great thing about Santos, is its unpretentious. A new breed of club where it’s more about the musical experience and party atmosphere than velvet rope and bottle service. Both upstairs and downstairs sound systems are INCREDIBLE! They rival, if not surpass, any club in the city.

On a side note, Melanie Donnelly, who also posts to this blog, is joining the team at Zaah. She’s been busy learning how to drive, so she can get her license and do the commute by car to Farmingdale. Now that we’ll both be in a office together, we can focus our efforts on Netmix a bit more. In fact, Zaah are partnering with Netmix to provide us with technology services under their incubation plan. We’re already in the process of revamping Netmix in a myriad of ways that will become more apparent over the next few months.

That being said, we’ve been developing a new Netmix Media business plan and financial model, building a board of advisors and taking the steps to reorganize Netmix.com and bring to market DJGig.com, which I can’t get into just yet. We think you’ll love it when you see it.

Gotta run!

– Tony Zeoli

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I am re-releasing this podcast from 01-02-06, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.

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I am re-releasing this podcast from 04-01-06, which aired only on Netmix
Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix
Podcast RSS feed.

I am re-releasing this podcast from 10-10-05, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.

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Beatportal.com, the daily blog journal run by the folks at Beatport.com, where kind enough to run my latest Netmix Global House Podcast in the Community feed section. You can check out the posting here.

Many companies are now looking to users to generate content for their blogs. Hiring bloggers is an expensive proposition against revenues. If you’re traffic doesn’t cover the cost of the hosting and content production, then it’s smart to look to the user community to develop content for a web site. We may be doing that ourselves very soon!

On another note, we’re moving away from Podpress for Wordpress as a Podcasting plug-in. It seems the developer is no longer supporting the application since 2007. As far as we can tell, Podpress has become extremely problematic, conflicting with more recent plug-ins, to the point that it breaks the plug-in repository in your Wordpress admin. We found the new Podcasting plug-in. When used in conjunction with a Feedburner_Feedsmith plug-in, we think it works quite nicely.

Podcasting supports iTunes, but it does not have links to the other podcasting web site featured through Podpress. It also does not host a download link with its player, nor does its player show the number of downloads. A bit disappointing, yes, but do I really need to tell people how many podcasts have been downloaded? Or, is that just a bit of ego on my part? I’ll go with the ego and forgo displaying the number for now. As long as I know what it is and that number is in overall subscriptions, I’m going to say that’s more important to Netmix growth over the long term.

That being said, my workaround was to simple. I added a text link under the Podcasting player provided by Feedburner to allow anyone to subscribe to my podcast feed. That way, it will ping users who have subscribed to the podcast with updates, in the same way that Podpress functions.

In a nutshell, I think we’ll be better off for the time being. Feedburner is quite a powerful way to organize and distribute feeds. For Netmix, that’s another great analytics tool, which compliments our Google Analtyics and GetClicky accounts.

If you’ve stumbled across this post, Netmix Media is the parent of Netmix.com. The company consults to media & entertainment organizations on web strategy, including blog and site development, rich media application development, Internet marketing and promotion and a host of other services. Contact Netmix Media if you need help with your web site or blog.

Despite the $4-a-gallon gas, since I moved to the suburbs with my lovely girlfriend, Missy, getting around hasn’t been the easiest. The time was definitely right to go mobile. It’s been about 15-years since I’ve actually owned a car. Living in the New York City, I didn’t much need one and would just rent if the need arose.

Of course, what better than to celebrate the new wheels with this “NETMIX” vanity license plate. Pretty cool. Not only do I own the domain name, but now the New York license plate too!

Vince Hearn, head platenut at platenuts.com even did a write up about my new plate! How cool is that. Platenuts features vanity license plates from car owners around the world. Thanks for nod, Vince!

After a few starts and stops, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up my latest 3-hour mix show. Things have been hectic over the last few months and I just didn’t have the time to focus on it. But, it’s finally done!

I love the 3-hour format, because you can really stretch out and program a variety of tunes into the set. So, download to your desktop and transfer to your portable device—or simply just listen to it here.

I’ve also provided links to download each individual track from Beatport.com when available. I know I was hard on Beatport in the past, but the service finally got around to building out a text linking program through their partnerships with Linkshare, an affiliate network that provides companies with the tools to build out affiliate programs. I found most of the tracks, but there were a few I couldn’t track down. It might be because they are new and haven’t pushed an update to Linkshare yet. Beatport have also created an API through LinkShare, which I hope to use in the future. But for now, we’ll just keep it simple.

Would love to know what you think, so please come back and post your comments. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1. Pianeep – Satoshi Fum | Beatport Download
2. Atlantic Deep – Christos Kessidis
3. No Te Vas feat. Angela Jones – Christos Kessidis| Beatport Download
4. Here Comes The Sun (Stryke’s Sunshine State of Mind Remix) – The Timewriter | Beatport Download
5. Not Exactly – Deadmau5 | Beatport Download
6. Faxing Berlin (Chris Lake Edit) – Deadmau5
7. Sweet Sensation – Satoshi Fumi, Deptech | Beatport Download
8. It’s Majik (Terry Lee Brown Jr Remix) – Gui Borratto | Beatport Download
9. Blonda (Funk D’Void Remix) – Shlomi Aber, Itamar Sagi | Beatport Download
10. Cosmic Force (Soul Minority Remix) – Andy Cato (Groove Armada) | Beatport Download
11. Do You Want it Right Now (Mischa Daniels Funktion Remix) – Degrees of Motion | Beatport Download
12. Toto – Brazen | Beatport Download
13. Twilight – Adam K, Soha | Beatport Download
14. Back In My Life feat. Fourfeet – Chuck Love | Beatport Download
15. Space Carnival (Global Communication’s Remix) – Azymuth | Beatport Download
16. I’m Not Afraid of The Future (Jimpster Mix) -Akabu | Beatport Download
17. Make It Move – Pete Moss | Beatport Download
18. Pass The Suntan Lotion (Nic Fanciulli Remix) James Talk | Beatport Download
19. Tribe – The Mulder | Beatport Download
20. World, Hold On feat. Steve Edwards (Wally Lopez Factomania Vocal Remix) – Bob Sinclair | Beatport Download
21. World, Hold On feat. Steve Edwards (Wally Lopez Factomania Dub Remix) – Bob Sinclair | Beatport Download
22. Can’t Let Me Down (JJK Remix) – George Morel, Romina Johnson
23. Don’t Go – PUZIQUe
24. Hydrology – Glenn Morrison | Beatport Download
25. Everybody’s Free feat. Rozalla (General Electric Mix) – Global Deejays
26. Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Remix) – Fragma
27. Seka (Francesco Pico Remix) – AMB

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