John Pfeiffer - Guitarist, Appleton, WI

Now offering guitar lessons

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Written by John Pfeiffer Tuesday, 06 April 2010 14:03

I am now excepting guitar students for lessons to be held in my recording studio, please take a look at the content on instruction under Studio, by shortcut HERE

It has been many years since I have purposely looked for students.  I have an end purpose, which is to document my musical journey and in doing so, hope that others will benefit from my knowledge.  Generally, there is no substitute for practice and no shortcuts to learning.  However, proper focus may get you where you want to go with less unneeded steps.

 

Technical Solutions - Part Two

Marketing

Written by John Pfeiffer Saturday, 06 March 2010 00:00

A month ago I decided I was going to resolve the technical problems I was having on my website.  The fundamental problem was that my calendar function had stopped working; a secondary problem was my songlist would no longer display.  Both of these problems are traceable to changes made in SQL accessing by my previous Host provider.  Additionally, I began having problems with Host provider service so I had decided to change providers as well.  For the future, I wanted to be able to add enhancements myself, without the need for specialized web support.  I can now say this problem is solved, let me know if you think I am right.

I somewhat naively launched into selecting an open source content management system (CMS) as opposed to higher level open source "web development" software.  I did a needs analysis and feature weighted compare on available products and selected one that demonstrated:  

Read more: Technical Solutions - Part Two

Social Networking

Marketing

Friday, 12 February 2010 13:35

There are quite a few social networking tools available now for sharing information with others. Each tool has unique features for publishing and notifications to others. Facebook is one that is widely used. I recently created a facebook page, you can use the link at right to access it. The plan is to post my gigs as events in Facebook. From Facebook, each user can choose what to be notified about (and how to be notified). My goal is to provide notifications of gigs on the day of the event for those who may want ideas for a night out. This feature may limited to facebook members, when I figure it out I will provide an update. For those who prefer no notifications, my performance schedule is posted below and also now on Facebook, The Appleton Hub, and AppletonNightOut.com (a new local Entertainment listing site).

Cell Phone Number Change

Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:00

My cell phone number has changed to 915-9700, please make a note it. I will be sending out an email reminder to my contacts list shortly.