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My prayers have been answered in the form of a bespectacled bunny. And yours can be too! Scroll down for details.

As some of you may know my bandmates and I maintain a presence on about 20 different social networks in order to make it easier for you to keep up to date with what were doing. While we always enjoy responding to messages and comments across those platforms one thing has always been challenging: blogging. Im so glad thats no longer the case!

Thanks to The Apple Blog and UsingMac, I discovered a fantastic blogging editor called Blogo. Blogo has been a game changer for me and heres why:

• It is an extremely powerful editor. With one click you can add direct links, bold text, strike-throughs, italics and more without even diving into html code!
• features awesome Twitter integration.
• has a super intuitive interface.
• allows you to drag and drop photos and customize your images with a built in editor that makes cropping and even re-sizing thumbnails easy! Check out this screen shot:

Most importantly, Blogo affords you the ability to post your blogs directly to WordPress as well as many other sites and then move them, with proper formatting, to almost any web property imaginable. Genius. Dont believe blogging could be this easy? Check out the screencasts at drinkbrainjuice.com!

If you cant tell already, Im really excited about this software. Im not too familiar with HTML and even if I were, after using Blogo I dont think Id ever want to mess with it thanks to the simplicity of this application. Its made a part of my life a lot easier and Im really grateful for that so I wanted to share it with you!

My bandmates and I feel that there is a huge opportunity to use Blogo to promote atris and independent music and are pleased to announce that our friends at Brainjuice have kindly agreed to give away three copies ($25 value each) to our friends, fans, and fellow artists.

Heres all you have to do to enter:

• 1. Follow us on Twitter
• 2. Tweet @atris explaining how you will use Blogo to help support independent artists.

Thats it! You have 140 characters so think different and be creative. Please dont send multiple tweets from different accounts though; thats not cool. The guys and I will pick our favorite messages, tweet the winners on Tuesday 11 August and mention their blogs in a future post!

Thanks for supporting atris and independent music!

-Mason

P.S. If youd like some company while youre turning those creative gears check out my interview with Joey from Wildgoo Radio at Viddler.com