Severed Fifth

It is awesome to see so much going on in the Street Team community. I just wanted to highlight some work that Virgil “vbrummond” Brummond has done to put together an introduction video for the Pennsylvanian Street Team:

Be sure to join the Pennsylvania Street Team on Facebook!

It is this kind of awesome work that is fueling the global Severed Fifth Street Team each day. Keep us updated with your work too!

Every Wednesday at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UTC/UK / 9pm Europe I host a live Severed Fifth videocast in which I provide updates about the band, the recording, the Severed Fifth Street Teams, how people are spreading the word and more.

On Wednesday I did one of these shows and discussed:

• The Severed Fifth Recording Campaign Final Stretch and showed the video.
• The new album, the recording and future plans.
• Street Team work that is going on.
• Played a few videos of rehearsals and the 2010 recap.
• Played some music from the demo.
• Other updates and news.

See the video below:

Facebook has become a hugely popular site, and with so many of us using it and it providing devilishly simple tools for keeping in touch, it is a really useful tool for keeping your Street Team together, getting more members involved, and communicating.

I recently set up the Bay Area Street Team and decided to use a Facebook Group as the place where we communicate. I chose to use a Facebook Group for a few reasons:

• Everyone in the team who has expressed interest in joining the Street Team (mainly folks who have been to our shows) are using Facebook.
• It provides simple tools for people to join and communicate with other Street Team members.
• Having conversations is really easy – you just post and everyone sees it. This is great for organizing Street Team events such as going out and putting posters up, giving CDs out, and other fun.

As such, I just wanted to recommend this as a useful tool for our growing Street Teams to use.

Getting Your Street Team Facebook Group Set Up

Here is how you set it up:

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/ and click the Create Group button.
2. Enter a name for the group – I recommend you call it the Severed Fifth Street Team (e.g. I called mine Bay Area Severed Fifth Street Team).
3. You can also invite people to join. Don’t just spam people, but do invite people who have expressed an interest in joining.
4. Finally, be sure to add your team to the list of Severed Fifth Street Teams and add your Facebook Group there as your website.

Simple as that! I hope this helps you get your awesome Severed Fifth Street Teams up and running!

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Neil Oosthuizen, a South African living the UAE is off to a great start for his Street Team.

Neil has previously been noted for being the creator of awesome SF ring tones, is now creating fliers to distribute in his local area. He also has bigger plans in the works, planning to spread the word further at an Ubuntu installfest he will be attending. You can find a link to the flier image below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59930315@N03/5473619703/

Some Severed Fifth fliers in action!

Anyone from the UAE interested in helping Neil, please join the forums and introduce yourself, and we would be glad to help you out! \m/

http://www.severedfifth.com/forum/

Just a quick heads up for you folks to let you know of two important events this week:

• Severed Fifth Video Update – today (23rd February 2011) at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UTC – I will be running a live and interactive video update to discuss the latest happenings in the band, in the Street Team, the latest studio news (we started recording at the weekend), and more! See it here!
• Street Team Meeting – Thu 24th February 2011 at 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 8pm UTC – we will be hosting our weekly Street Team meeting in which we put together plans for the next week for growing our global Severed Fifth Street Team in preparation for the album and beyond! To join, simple join the chat channel – everyone is welcome!

I look forward to seeing you at these next two events!

Thanks to the hard work of Street Team, I am proud to announce the third release of the Severed Fifth Fanzine!

Download Here: http://audio.lugradio.org/severedfifth/fanzine/severedfifth-fanzine-3.pdf

This edition of the Fanzine includes:

• Updates on the new recording of the first album!
• News about the Severed Fifth Local Street Teams
• Behind The Song: Politicold

A special thanks to Torontomario for his great artwork, Brandon Felton from the PA Street Team  for his ideas, and Jono for his great support as always! \m/

One of the great things about the Severed Fifth community is that users are empowered to create fan content and support the band in their own way. Forums contributor Stranger created Severed Fifth ring tones that so far have been a hit with the community.

The tool used was the open source audio editor Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). The five second message tones and thirty second ring tones are available for download from the forums post here: http://www.severedfifth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=182

Thanks a lot for your contributions! Keep them coming guys. \m/