Getting listed on sleightly.com’s directory

June 28, 2008 · Filed Under sitenews · Comment 

I might as well offer this plug about getting listed on the directory to the general blog universe.

If you haven’t already, please check out sleightly.com to see the main directory. On it is a place for anybody to list an item for free. This means that if you have a website, a product, a blog, a forum, a review published somewhere, there are sections available to make a listing for it. You can also submit links to the work of authors or companies that you are a fan of.

Plus, there are plans for more categories coming, including a magician’s registry that will let you have links to your personal website, email, facebook and myspace (although those four links are all optional), as well as a place to put up a notice about any clubs you might belong to or special events that you’re planning.

You don’t have to do this, of course. The wheels have already started turning for getting larger publishers to mass promote their content (I’m in talks with several), and if you’ve checked out the DVD Releases page you’ll see that Big Blind Media has already gotten on board with their catalog, with more companies to come (even if I have to put the dang things up one-at-a-time myself).

That said, there’s no reason not to get in on the action early… unless you’re averse to promoting something for free, that is.

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Welcome to the new magic blog…

June 27, 2008 · Filed Under sitenews · 4 Comments 

…as opposed to Ye Olde Magick Blogge, the one I ran previously. Well, I’m running it still, and if something comes up that’s worth talking about but that’s outside sleightly.com’s mandate, I’ll probably trudge over there to talk about it.

But, for now, I’m here.

Not that this matters one way or the other, especially if you have no clue who I am. ANYHOO…

This is the blog that will chart the development of sleightly.com, a new magic-based internet directory, where you can list items freely in everything from product releases to reviews to publishers to websites to forums to societies to special events… you get the picture. Basically, the long-term goal of sleightly.com is this — if it’s got a name and it’s somehow related to magic, it’ll be listed on here somewhere. I’ll be leaving off the exposure sites (although there’s going to be a Penn and Teller exception) but everything else is fair game.

As such, if any of you guys happen to have a product or event or news item that you want to promote, please feel free to use the various categories off the directory’s main page to get there and post it. Posting of that sort is and always will be free for the life of the site.

Eventually, sleightly.com is going to be adding its own content, including news items, editorials, reviews, photos… If it’s hard-core stuff (read: magic theory, criticism, and things of that ilk), it’ll end up at YOMB, but if it’s industry-related and interesting, it’ll end up here.

So, welcome to the new place. Hope you like it.

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