The MusicRVA Network

Hello All,
Here is a Super Update for you all!!
First, the MusicRVA Network site is now on an upgraded platform.
I made this decision recently, because the hosting service that the .com site has sat
on the the last 5 years, has made many changes to their cPanel structure, and I can not
get the new system to work.
I have not been able to update the main site in a year now, and I can not get the support
I need from the hosting company, so I have decided to close that hosting service account
in March when it comes due again.
I have instead put the money into this platform so that I could open up the option to use
html and java on this site. Ironically, that changed the 250 member limit I had grandfathered
into when they revamped the free service here, to only 150, altho there are less than 100 members here.
The benefits to this, besides the ability to use html, is that it opens up new features the free platform
did not support, like chat. We now have built in "private" chat on the site, listed under the Media tab.
I will be gradually deleting old inactive members, or members who never confirmed their emails,
over the next few months. I will be transforming this site to be more like a website, BUT, I do want active members here,
who have valuable content to share. Therefore, if you would like to continue as a member here, please log into your accounts,
and place active content on your blogs, profile pages, and forum. Tell us about your band, your art, the venues in your area.
Post show dates for you and your area, generally be active and help promote the music and entertainment you love.
Please invite your friends and buttociates that you know who love to write and share experiences about music and entertainment.
I will henceforth be choosing to accept new members based on these type of factors.
I have made the add links area of the site open to members to post links here. This is a trial, Please DO NOT abuse this priviledge.
If I start seeing links to unrelated entertainment, such as porn, spam, etc. I will cease this ability, and the offending user
may be deleted. This is for the protection of everyone.
Secondly, I built a related forum for this site a year or more ago, and literally forgot about it, DUH!
It is an awesome forum, with features up the yin yang!! I am in the process of updating it and will continue to do so over the coming weeks.
It will be the meeting ground for everyone who can not gain membership access here,
as well as an extention for our current members. There is much more freedom there to post content, and the file space is much bigger there,
so pictures and videos are not a problem. There is also the ability to add, or upload files for downloading, so it will be
a very useful extention, not to mention the extra share abilities there.
You can also log in with your FaceBook account, or just register as a new user. Find the forum here.
http://musicrva.forumotion.com/
I am now seriously looking for a few people who want to be "staff" on the network platform here, to add articles, specific content, and also someone to
administer the calendar for shows and venues. This would also include the Blogger MusicRVA Blog. This is NOT a paid position. I do everything I do out of love for the art, and I will expect anyone
who wishes to be a contributor on staff to do the same. Altho I would love to pay some of you, this is not an option, at least not at this time.
I am not sure yet, where I will redirect the .com domain name after the host has been discontinued, but it will either point to the forum, or the blogger.
Well I think I have given you enough info for now. Please do login into the network and add some content, AND join the new forum and do the same.
The more you promote yourself, the more you will be seen.
Sincerely,
Angela