Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Great seeing everyone again the other night!
I was really impressed with your “cocktail speeches” and with all the thought and work that you have put into them. Now grab a cocktail and practice!
This week we talked about written elements that you need to have ready to go for galleries, collectors, juried shows, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alysonstanfield, artbiz, artist, blogs, etsy, flickr, tinamammoser, twitter on April 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Tina Mammoser is a London artist I know through Twitter. She just posted an insightful rumination on the usefulness of Twitter to her as an artist, and how this and other new media might alter how artists live, work, and communicate.
The bulk of the post is a copy of an email she sent to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Many thanks to everyone who posted links to their new blogs in the comments! I have linked them all in the sidebar to the right.
If anyone would like to add their link, just post it in the comments and I will be happy to oblige.
I see that many of you have questions about how [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, blogs, davecaolo, WYS on April 15, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Many thanks to Dave Caolo for an excellent presentation on Blogging for Artists tonight at the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. I particularly loved the exercise in which he asked us which of the alleged benefits of blogging were we skeptical of — I really admire a presenter that asks for that kind of feedback [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, davecaolo, jessicaburko on April 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I am sorry to relate that Jessica Burko is feeling poorly and so she will not be able to present as scheduled this week. But the show must go on!
Instead, our presenter of Blogging, Dave Caolo, who was originally scheduled for April 29, will present his session this Tuesday. We have already been discussing blogs [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As promised, here is the slideshow from Jim Hill’s presentation on week 1 of What’s Your Story: Personal Branding, PR, and New Media for Artists – our first look at branding and how it affects the individual artist.
And here, also as promised, is the worksheet we used during our exercise to find out more about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, chrisbrogan on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chris Brogan, a blogger who writes and thinks a lot about why people blog (or Twitter, or use Facebook, etc.) just wrote an excellent post that I thought the class would be interested in.
He talks about the various fears that keep people from blogging, or twittering, or just generally making their voices heard online:
…perfectionism, failure, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged branding, jessicaburko, WYS on April 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We’re looking forward to Week Two of What’s Your Story: Personal Branding, PR and New Media for Artists! We had to relocate to a room at Cape Cod Community College last week, but we are all set this week to return to our natural home at the offices of the Arts Foundation of Cape [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged twitter, WYS on April 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
We talked a little about Twitter at the first session of What’s Your Story: Personal Branding, PR and New Media for Artists, and I know a couple of you have already given it a peek.
Twitter can be a little confusing to the uninitiated, so I’m posting a few guides here to get you started.
First, watch [...]
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