Official website of the Zambia Association of Musicians. The Zambia Association of Musicians (ZAM) is an affiliate organization of the National Arts Council (NAC). ZAM was created in 1979 for the purposes of promotion and development of music and Zambian musicians locally and in the Diaspora. The Zambia Association of Musicians is the official body representing the interests of all professional and freelance musicians in Zambia. 

The website also serves as an online social network and community portal with integration and support of very powerful features such as detailed musician and standard-user membership profiles, student profiles, photo, music & video-upload functionality, independent creation by any registered member of blogs, events, groups, photo albums, forums, classifieds, jobs post, link directory, business listing, shopping-cart / online shop listing, online polling, efficient local search, user-specific privacy settings and live chat functionalities, among many applications:

• CMS Pages
• Music
• Videos
• Articles
• Blogs
• Events
• Groups
• Photos
• Video Feeder
• Forums
• Listings
• Links
• Job Posts
• Classifieds
• Online Shop(s)
• Businesses
• e-Payment / Online Payment Gateway
• Badges
• Polls
• Chat

Anyone can register on the website, and it is recommended that Zambian musicians, whether professional or freelance, register. Registration is free of course. As a (first-time) online guest one can create a unique membership profile (with a Username) that distinctly identifies one (as a Musician or otherwise); and then one can access—(via the link "My Apps" in a logged-in member's profile panel tabs)—an array of diverse features and applications to:

• Keep oneself informed and updated on current trends in a fun and fast way!
• Meet like-minded interesting people, exchange music and ideas.
• Create an online social-networking profile that suits.
• Stay in touch with loved ones, family and friends via your mail account.
• Invite friends to join so one can connect live with them directly, in real time.
• Make friends and online business contacts.
• Know what one's friends or others in your network are up to, via the Recent Activity Feed.
• Add a Business Listing to the business directory.
• Place any desired type of listing in the listings directory.
• Add a website's link to the open links directory.
• Use ad campaigns to advertise website(s), business(es) or business product(s) or service(s).
• Make e-commerce, e-payment processing and online trading be only a finger-tip away.
• Post jobs or search for jobs in the jobs directory, search career opportunities.
• Expand one's online universe & interests, boost one's web presence.
• Create and organise photo albums.
• Upload pictures and videos.
• Advertise or sell music or share favourite music.
• Sell or buy stuff in the ZAM Online Store or Members' shops, own an own shop.
• Start one's very own blog at the word go!
• Instigate discussion, post comments, or share in the forum exchange.
• Place classifieds in the classifieds directory, with free image-hosting service.
• Create or join groups, choose one's favourite network or suggest / create a sub-network.
• Choose from user-specific sub-networks to find or suggest one that meets one's needs.
• Manage an own personal events calendar.
• Chat live in real time with one's friends and contacts.
• Create or participate in online user polls.
• Keep tabs on all relevant member/user statistics.
• Consult FAQ if in  need quick answers to basic questions.
• Share only info one really wants shared with others, as per one's profile privacy settings.
  
  
• The strict Privacy setting configurations of the website enable one the full power to override things and decide what information about oneself one'd like to share with everyone, or no-one, or only with ones's friends, or a select few, or only with others in the (main) network or a sub-network of the website: A member can specifically set whether their content should be spidered or not by the ZAM search engine, and this allows members to exclude any selected profile content of theirs, as they will decide, from even being searchable, or being found or able to be found, by the search engine. Such settings may be handy with e.g. personal photo albums.

For more info, visit the ZAM Website:http://www.zamonline.com