Make A Difference for Working Musicians Around the World. Vote for our Idea: Tune Your World = Music + Microfinance. We're in the finals round at the business idea contest site Ideablob.com. The prize is $10,000. We need your vote by midnight on May 31.

We're providing opportunities for revitalizing the music industry in places where the music industry has never really worked very well.We have built a micro-finance platform (at www.tuneyourworld.com )allowing music fans to back their favorite artist while sharing in their financial success.We're developing a mobile delivery, promotion and payment platform allowing direct engagement between artists and fans at live events and distributing music in parts of the world where personal computers with broad band connections are rare.We're creating a micro-publishing and syndication platform allowing artists and fans to create and sell mp3 albums on their own web site or blog.We're taking advantage of creative commons-style licensing allowing for flexible pricing and multiple uses for music content and creating new sources of revenue for both mash-up artists and original content owners.We're partnered with the most respected media companies with large and dedicated audiences who want to learn about world culture including: National Geographic, Discovery Channel, the BBC and Public Radio InternationalWe're applying socially responsible practices to the independent music industry that place artists in control of their music.

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