Belly Dancing Tech Talk

The articles listed on this menu cover how belly dancers can use computers and other technology to more effectively promote themselves and deal with the day-to-day practical issues of managing their dance activities. Although these articles focus on how dancers might use technology, much of my advice on areas like building your own web site could also apply to people in other fields.

Having Your Own Web Site

Do You Need A Web Site? It seems as if everyone else is creating a web site. Do you need one?
Starting Your Own Web Site. Suggestions on how to choose a service provider, what software you'll need, and what you should know about hiring someone to do it for you.
Gig Clients, Students or Lonely Men: Who is Your Web Site Designed to Attract?. You web site is part of your brand image. Is it attracting the right clients?
Artwork For Your Site. Pointers to sources of clip art to dress up the appearance of your web site.
Getting Web Exposure Through Indexes. How to promote your site through directories and indexes such as Yahoo, Excite, and others.
Web Site Hygiene. Protect your web site from the common pitfalls that have plagued other dancers!

Other Technology Tools for Dancers

As dancers, we often find that technology can simplify or enable things we want to do. Technology can help us learn how to edit our promotional photographs to remove the pimple, prepare music for our performances by cutting, slowing, fading, etc, create promotional DVD's to audition our performance skills for would-be employers, continue our dance education through videos, and more. Here is an introduction to technology products I have used and what I thought of them.

Photoshop Wizardry for Belly Dancers. Secrets of a graphics designer who also is a dancer!
Dance Music: A New Use For Your Computer! Find out how to use your computer to assemble music into convenient formats for use in your teaching and performing.
Product Review: Spamnix and McAfee Spamkiller. I'd rather spend my time dancing than deleting offensive junk e-mail from my computer, so I tried these anti-spam software products.

Product Review of the Polaroid PDV-0700 Portable DVD Player. I bought this to play dance DVD's from around the world, because it can be set to any region I want.

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