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New York City, February 23, 2010 – The music industry’s leading digital content provider, Loud Feed, is proud to announce the launch of its new social media networking site for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The A2IM branded site allows the trade association to focus specifically on the needs of its community, empowering members to connect, share news and add content within a highly interactive and useable online social network.

A2IM serves the Independent music community as a unified voice representing a broad coalition of music labels, music companies and services. Key aspects of their new social networking site include FaceBook-like features whereby members can view site-wide activities, status updates, and latest news. Members can also join groups, forums and promote events. Each profile allows for custom fields and tags. Distinct tag clouds are viewable for music labels, associate members and news items.

“The new A2IM.org social web site is an enhanced gateway for our membership to better connect with one another and to easily stay updated with what’s happening in our community. Dr. Ron Suarez of Loud Feed engineered an impressive custom solution using standards based Open Source tools that laid the foundation for greater things to come. We are especially pleased that our non-technical staff are able to control our content more easily.” – Jim Mahoney, Vice-President, A2IM (more…)

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Download this free plugin and try it out with a free Loud Feed account to promote your music. Loud Feed has created “Music Label WP” as a Wordpress plugin that takes content managed in Loud Feed and automatically populates your Wordpress site. Whether you’re an established Music Label or starting your own Label, this plugin leverages Wordpress for the ease of creating and skinning your own site possible with content that Loud Feed stores using Amazon Web Services for storage and bandwidth. Loud Feed offers a publishing workflow for all you music content (albums, artists, songs, shows, promotions, widgets and related metadata).

See examples of artist and album pages displayed on a Wordpress site using “Music Label WP” site that uses content from the GoinNative Label, whose custom site we developed in Ruby on Rails. Wordpress with the new Music Label WP plugin will now offer a less expensive solution for labels and make it easier for the label and their staff to control the front end, while leveraging to powerful Loud Feed Music Content Management System integrated with Amazon Web Services for unlimited scalability.

The plugin is being licensed as GPL Open Source and the Loud Feed platform itself is in the process of becoming licensed as GPL Open Source (as soon as our lawyer is done).

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