Trends In Website Design
Is your website overdue for an overhaul? It used to be cool to have a white website with a light gray font. It was even cooler if the font required a magnifying glass to read it. This was the rage, oh, about 12 years ago. Then we realized how hard it is to read tiny pale fonts. Artists also latched on to black backgrounds for their sites thinking it made the work “pop,” when it
Twitter Tweekly for June 1, 2014
An annotated and curated list of my top tweets since May 17, 2014. It’s okay if you don’t add dates to your artwork online, but do keep good records of dates Like I always say . . . Trusting Yourself to Make Decisions Instead of Always Seeking Advice Bookstore opens Art store. Cool concept. hyperallergic.com/127842/booksel… Email Subject Lines: 5 Tips to Attract Readers buff.ly/1nbVbSH < #artists please read this! Hilarious! Online game lets you smash Ai Wei Wei vases aiweiwhoops.net RT @ArtistTaraReed: SURTEX thoughts
Powerful Questions That Lead to Progress
Questions, when used in business planning, are more powerful than statements because they make us think and formulate our own answers. They encourage us to consider our situation, environment, abilities, and resources. See if any of these serve you at the moment.
Twitter Tweekly for May 17, 2014
An abbreviate list of my top tweets from the past two weeks since I’m away.
Sometimes artists have awesome newsletters that I’d like to share with people. Try including an online link to yours. . . . Frieze Fair interpreted by @artadvocate huffingtonpost.com/paul-klein/buo…
A Mission for Each of Your Social Media Channels
“I am setting up a social media plan, and I am a little confused about how to use external sites (like Facebook, Twitter, etc.) in addition to my blog. . . . I feel like any update that I could post on Facebook, I’d also like to post on my blog. In other words, how can I avoid duplicate content everywhere?” – Sarah
Good question for evaluating your social media strategy. Let’s establish from the get-go that there’s nothing wrong with duplicate content. Odds are quite slim that the same people would see the same content in all places.
Speak Up on Behalf of Your Art Career
In her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” She encourages women, whether they are in the workplace or at home, to “lean in” to their potential rather than sitting back and accepting unfavorable situations. I’m asking you to speak up.
