Pink Insider Goes Facebook!

I feel a need to explain why the Pink Insider now has a public Facebook page. Until recently there hasn't really been any need for one, but now that Facebook allows a limited amount of coding on their pages (much like MySpace did back in the day) the Pink Insider has decided to take it for a spin. As you can see the blog feed automatically gets posted to the Facebook page, and I am also embedding videos from the Pink Insider YouTube channel onto the page directly too. Everything is a bit of a testbed at the moment. Do check the Facebook page as I try out some cool stuff there. And remember you can still follow the Pink Insider on twitter, by email updates and by RSS.

Seeking Out The Pink Insider

Although it purports to be, In The Pink(ies) isn't really a personal blog. For one there are actually multiple Pink Insiders, and any Pinkie is very welcome to contribute if they like, just get in touch with me (if you are a Pink Singer you'll know who I am!) and I will gladly give you access.

When I first started blogging about our choir, there was indeed an ulterior motive - it was to get some kind of informal representation of the Pink Singers out there on the web. We have the website, and we have MySpace and Facebook, but these are official websites, so no matter how much we try to make them more human and approachable, the "official" stance is bound to cut some people off.

I was originally hoping that people would get in touch with the Pink Insider from outside the choir, and if people were looking to see what it was like to be in the Pink Singers, Google would lead them here. This has actually been moderately successful, and I hope that you readers who are not Pinkies realise how great our choir is, partly from what we write here. Leave a comment dammit!

This year has been a little tougher for In The Pink(ies) because of a justified caution about the use of photography in the choir. It has been necessary to resort to stock photography in some cases, or take photos of the usual suspects who don't mind their mugs all over this moderately read blog. You know who you are, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart! In restrospect, I don't think it has affected the personality of these pages much. As our policy on photography is implemented next season I'm hoping the guidelines will be better defined which would simplify what the Pink Insiders currently do.

If you are a Pinkie and have been reading this blog and think, hey yeah, I could do that, then why don't you? Let me know!

P.S. The picture has nothing to do with the post but it comes from Red Nose Studio and I like it!

A Few Changes And An Invitation

If you have been visiting my little blog over the last few days you will notice that I have made a few changes. Apart from the banner which is now animated, I have syndicated the RSS feed through Feedburner. It is now even easier to subscribe to - just have a look at the Subscribe To Me! section in the column to your right. If you find the whole RSS business a little too confusing, then you can even get an email whenever the blog is updated. You will get no more than one email a day, so don't worry! While you're in that right hand column you can also get a sneak listen to one of my favourite tracks from our CD Hand In Hand, and perhaps even buy a copy?

I also wanted to say that although it appears that there is just one Pink Insider, there are in fact three at present who are contributing their thoughts of being in the Pink Singers to In The Pink(ies). If you are a Pinkie and want to share your (unofficial but positive) experiences with our readers, then please feel free to let me know and I will add you to the contributors.