Music Teacher's Helper Blog

We are delighted to have comments on any post, as long as they are fairly on-topic.  It doesn’t matter how old the post is, just add your comment.  Thanks for recent comments by: Chris F. on New Server, Geri on Ricci Adam’s musictheory.net, Amy on More Online (FREE) Resources, Chris B. on Keeping it Fresh, Kathleen on Tips for Advertising your Studio this Fall

Here’s more info on participating in and staying in touch with our blog.  Contributing your ideas is very easy.  At the bottom of each post is an option to Add a Comment.  If you are concerned about your anonymity, you should know that only the name and email are required, and the email is not made public.  We are a community of music teachers, so hopefully you can feel comfortable participating, and presumably if you have a Music Teacher’s Helper site, you are okay with having your name and information out on the web for people to learn about and to contact you.

But, say you want to just try out adding your voice to the blog through a comment, but are not sure about putting your name out there.  First of all, the email address is not made public.  Secondly, there is no need to enter a URL unless you want people to be able to click on your name and be directed to your website.  Third, the system doesn’t check that the name and email are real.  In this community, I would hope people would not fake these things.  It’s nice to know who made comments and there are rare occasions when it’s fitting to send an email to help out someone who asks a question in the comment area of one of my postings. Normally I respond to comments by adding another comment–for example, if George asks a question in his comment, I might add a comment that begins “@ George:” and contains my response to George.

We do have the option of removing inappropriate, garbled, misdirected, off-topic, or otherwise zany comments.  I can think of only 3 times this happened, though–a duplicate entry, a comment on the wrong post, and once, a truly garbled comment…

As I said, we are delighted to have comments regardless of the opinion stated, though, as long as it is fairly on-topic.