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Yesterday, I joined the ArtStack site.
ArtStack is something like Pinterest, only strictly for sharing images of art past and present–including your own which you can easily upload. Follow other artists, galleries, museums and brands on ArtStack.
It’s Me Again (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have taken part in Tweet Swap over the past year and I always found only high quality tweets on creative arts, art and design, photography and such listed for sharing.
The way it works is that you add your tweet to the share list, then select 2-3 from the list to tweet to your followers. Others on the list will tweet your tweet.
This is Zoltan’s project and he just sent out this notification–
Hey guys, just a quick note to let you know that we now have a simple Register Interest page up for a dedicated, proper version of Tweet Swap.
Image via FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Art Snapper on Pinterest has a share your own art board where you can add images of your own art to get more visibility for your work.
I’ve also found that there are many Tumblr art blogs that have options for you to either submit your art or upload your art and artist news, announcements or articles along with art images. Add your own art or cross-promote with another artist to mutually share–this is such an easy way to get more exposure. Also, many Tumblr art blogs also have Pinterest pin buttons. Once you add you artist article and image you can pin it to Pinterest.
Here are just a few Tumblr art blogs that accept your contributions of images and writing–there are many more:
No Ones Nemesis http://noonesnemesis.tumblr.com/submit
A Thousand Words http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/submit
Fuck Yeah Expressionism http://fuckyeahexpressionism.tumblr.com/submit
On the Art Finder site http://www.artfinder.com/about you can build your own art profile, add the link to your website, and connect with art lovers and collectors. An easy way to create a strategic online presence amid art lovers.
I have found that art galleries internationally promote their art publications on the Issuu site, where you can create a free member profile and join one of the groups such as the Art People group that allows members to upload an ebook up to 500 pages. Do you have a digital manuscript of your own artwork? This is a great place to share your own art ebook!
Yes, it is happening today, Friday, the Google + Friday Art Critique
You can stop in and leave comments on the artwork today. To participate in the next critique, upload your art image and label it with +Friday Art Critique
Visit the official +Friday Art Critique website and add them to your Circle: http://gplus.to/FridayArtCritique
Mad Scientist – Artist Max Rubenacker originated and continues to run the +Friday Art Critique
Max said: “I started FAC back in late January because I felt a need in the community for some sort of focused, organized gathering of artists. Up to that point we could ask for critiques on our own, but there wasn’t anything consistent. When I attended art school we’d get together and have a critique every Friday afternoon, so I used that as a model. There’s no official sign-up, artists just post their work and tag +Friday Art Critique, then sometime Friday morning I assemble links to everyone’s posts and make an image showing all the work that was sent in that week. Again, following the model of all the students putting their art up on the walls so you could get a sense of the work as a group. My goal is to drive some traffic to artist’s work and get people together who might never have met otherwise.”
Take a look at Max’s website–I love his original sound vibration paintings–you’ll find them on his website greetings.somethingformed.com
Nothingness (Peaches), oil on canvas panel, 12 x 12 inches, Lena Levin, 2012
When art is over, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, Lena Levin, 2012
Lena Levin shares instructions on how to create photo albums of your art on Google + :
If you add photos not from the main Google+ page, but from the “Photos” tab, you can do either of two things:
1. Add one or several photos from your computer and create a new album out of them; after you have done that, Google+ automatically offers you to share (at which point you can add some text to make a post to accompany the photos). If there are three photos or less, the post will include a “panel” with all of them; if there are more, it will show a panel with the first three.
2. Essentially the same thing happens if you add your photos to one of your already existing albums: Google+ offers you to share, and, by default, it will include in the post only newly added photos: if there are three or less, they will be all visible together, in a panel.
The latter option works better if you have “thematic” albums — in this way, if someone clicks on a photo to view a larger version, they might also browse the whole album (note: if you click “Photos” from my profile, you will see that I have lots of such albums). It works as a “gentle nudge” to the followers to browse more of your work. 
Quite often, this really happens — I see that someone goes through the older images and adds “+1″s or comments.
And it also offers those willing to share your work to their followers an option to share a whole album, rather than a single post or a single image.
I cannot give you links, because I am figuring this all myself, more or less (especially because they rather frequently change how it all works… .
Lena Levin’s website is www.lenalevin.com.
English: Screen Capture of article of front page of Yahoo! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’m going to tell you how I get paid for the articles I write and publish. The purpose of this blog post is not to tell you how I get paid. Even though I do that. The purpose of this post is to let you know that you have more control over online content than you think!
How can you exert control over online content?
If you’re like me, you’ve signed up to receive notices in your email inbox or RSS feed when your favorite online authors publish new articles on such sites as Mashable, Huffington Post Arts, Yahoo! Movies, and many others.
You may wonder how authors are paid for their ideas and time researching and writing these articles. The answer may surprise you!
As contributing writer for both Yahoo! and Technorati News I am paid a dollar amount each time someone clicks on a link within my published articles. Those clicks represent my click-through rate.
Who pays me?
Yahoo! pays based on click-through-rate on links within my Yahoo! articles. I also receive a much lesser amount based on the total number of reader views that my article receives. Yahoo! deposits payments into my PayPal account. Yahoo! also provides extensive analytics so I can track my readership and earnings, and via those stats I can easily see what articles and article topics are the most popular and what links receive the most clicks. (Of course I want to get paid for my work, so I consider these stats when planning future articles).
Technorati news has a similar set-up. Since they are closely linked to Google–with all Technorati news articles feeding into Google news–Google pays me. Google pays varying amounts for each click on links within my published Technorati news articles. I track those clicks, readership numbers, and payment amounts per article via my Google AdSense account. (Again, the more success an article brings the more l will want to write on that topic in future articles and promote those articles enthusiastically).
So you are probably thinking that for each article authors must receive hundreds or even thousands of dollars in total clicks–but that is just not the case!
While hundreds or even thousands of readers may read any given article online, the number of clicks on links within an article is generally quite low. This is frustrating to all authors of online articles–even top authors! “We all have that problem,” one top author told me when I asked about improving click-through rates.
Why do hundreds of people read online articles without clicking on those internal links? This phenomenon is something that many experts have analyzed and written about in numerous articles on click-through-rates. This payment structure I have described is why you often see sensationalized, rather silly or limited value content online—the authors are hoping to find a gimmick that will make their content a hit so that it will go viral and they will receive a large number of click-throughs and high total payment.
So what does this mean to you?
Think about it. Now you better understand the secret to exerting control over what gets published online!
If you have favorite online authors you’d like to keep around and support, then thoroughly review their articles and click on those article links of interest to see where they go! Share the articles you like best with others via email. Use the share features to post articles to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and other social media site and include comments on why you like the article. You are exerting control over online content with each click and share. With each click you are paying those authors who provide the information you like and value. Your clicks bring attention to those articles, and attention both to the authors and the content subjects. Remember, Google is watching and analyzing those stats you generate when you click. Google pays authors for each click, so you can be sure that they pay attention to where their money goes. It’s easy to let Google know what you like and value with each click.
You the reader have more control over online content than you think! If you want Google to place more value on art related content then support those authors who write on the arts by clicking on those internal article links and sharing those articles widely.
Want more online articles on your own artworks published?
Authors of articles value a well written press release that provides the full details and includes jpeg images. ( I am glad to receive these from artists.) Now that you know that most authors of online articles do not receive an hourly rate of pay, you understand how important it is for you to provide full details in your press releases and keep your website Newsroom up to date.
One artist, who didn’t even have a blog or website, once told me–”you can go around and search the web for information about me”, when I asked him for a press release. WRONG! If you don’t have time to write a press release, I don’t have free time to do that for you, and neither do other authors of online content. If you want to become the subject of more online articles, get more exposure and visibility for your art, then it is up to you to organize, present and provide your information.
Artists and Arts Organizations may send their press releases to me, Marie Kazalia, via email, at: MarieKazalia@gmail.com
SAMPLE ARTICLE: Here is the link to one of my recently published Technorati articles containing artist news.
