End-Of-Year Review 2011

End Of Year Review 2011 | Shuffle Projects

After the first end-of-year review at the end of 2010 I thought I’m going to write another one for 2011. There are two reasons for that: I can wrap up the year and summarize what was happening here during 2011 for myself but also for you It helps me to set goals for 2012. We all need goals, don’t we? Some Personal Thoughts Before I start with the summary, I would like to write down some personal thoughts about Shuffle Projects The Blog (Shuffle Projects is actually the head label for all my activities in the swing world, that’s why [...]

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And the Winners are…

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This is going to be a short post. I asked you for your help to improve this website and give me thereto your feedback. And here are the winners of a CD “Live in Philadelphia” by Gordon Webster: Suse from Switzerland Dörte from Germany Giovanni from Italy Thank you guys for your feedback! You’ll shortly receive the CD. I hoped for some more comments, but based on the many Facebook Likes I suppose you’re pleased with the content so far . Alreet, thanks again to be part of my community. Keep on swinging and have a great Sunday! Photo credit: [...]

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One Year Anniversary! Help Me To Improve This Website

One Year Anniversary Shuffle Projects

One Year Shuffle Projects – The Blog My first post “For Swing Lovers” (in German) went live on 1st March 2010. This was the starting point of a new project. At the beginning I thought I will publish most of the content in German and some in English – but it changed immediately, most of the posts are in English now. I enjoy having so many international visitors on the blog and I hope you consider my Swinglish as a style . Redesign I just accomplished one of my goals for this year (see “End-Of-Year-Review 2010“): last night I published [...]

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A Short Note by a Newly Minted Father

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As you may have heard or read I’m now a father of a son, since one month to be precisely. His name is Sidney Miro and you can guess where we got the inspiration from… Well, that’s the reason why I’m not that active right now on this blog. I’m still far away from a daily routine, so it’s pretty difficult to find enough time for oneself or let’s say, to get one hour in a row to attend to something! The series Song of the Week will be continued as usual: on Mondays I’ll post a new one. And [...]

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End-Of-Year Review 2010

In March 2010, while temporarily living in Sydney Australia, I started Shuffle Projects, the website. Actually, I didn’t have concrete plans where it will end up, I just had the idea about a swing blog and thought let’s do it. Meanwhile, I know much more about it. Here is a review about the last 10 months. End-Of-Year Review General I published 94 posts. The blog gets 500-600 visitors per month Most Popular Posts about Dance How Does The Perfect Balboa Weekend Look Like? – An Event Review Balboa History – Wie alles begann (in German) Global Shim Sham Lerne die [...]

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“Song of the Week” Series featured on Hey Mr. Jesse Podcast!

Hey Mister Jesse: Podcast for Swing DJs

Host Jesse Miner & Co-host Manu “Spuds” Smith are featuring my series “DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week” in the October edition of “Hey Mr. Jesse” podcast. I feel honoured, thank you guys! Hey Mister Jesse is a podcast for Swing DJs since 2006: “Hey Mister Jesse’s barbecue of tasty talk about swingin’ jazz and blues. DJ Jesse Miner will serve up a platter of swingin’ music that matters to dancers. Check out the show every month to hear music, interviews, listener feedback and news about the music swing dancers love.” Check out this month’s episode #058! Related posts: Great [...]

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New Domain Name: shuffleprojects.com

Shuffle Projects

First of all, thank you for being a part of my community! When I started this website, I had no idea that it will attract so many international visitors. Currently there are more than 600 per month on the website what is more than expected. At the end of the year I will post a summary about the visitors and the most popular posts. The biggest group are the Swiss of course, because Shuffle Projects is based in Zurich and we are organising classes, workshops and events here. But the main content on the website is considered for an international [...]

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For Swing Lovers

Shuffle Projects

Willkommen auf der Website von Shuffle Projects! Mit dieser Website erfülle ich mir einen persönlichen Traum: eine von der Schweiz ausgehende Plattform, die alle Lindy Hop und Balboa Workshops und Events von Shuffle Projects versammelt ausgewählte externe Veranstaltungen ankündigt und darüber berichtet Musikempfehlungen für Tänzer und DJs anbietet den geschichtlichen und kulturellen Hintergrund von Jazz und Swing beleuchtet immer auch Platz bietet für neue Shuffle Projects wie CD-Reviews, Guest-Posts von nationalen und internationalen `Swing-Spezialisten’, und und und. Diese Website kann deutsche und englische Posts enthalten, je nach dem ob die lokale oder die internationale Swing Szene angesprochen ist. Mein Wunsch [...]

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