Mailing List sign-up without leaving Twitter
: “If you follow my Twitter feed, you might have seen this tweet: …”
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: “If you follow my Twitter feed, you might have seen this tweet: …”
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: “Ariana Osborne is credited as “Chief Mechanic” on the FreakAngels(1) web-comic/graphic novel series (written by Warren Ellis, artwork by Paul Duffield). In practice it seems that this means…”
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: “As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to. …”
: “Twitter is the rising star of social media at the moment, and is a surprisingly good tool for artists. …”
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: “Following up from my “Microsites for Arts Projects” post in August, I noticed that Maki at DoshDosh had (quite separately) published a similar article in September entitled “How…”
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: “I’m going to concentrate on HTML email design here rather than best practice for sending your emails or building your email list. …”
: “In my earlier post on using Facebook to promote your artwork I promised an update on how it was going. So here’s the first update. …”
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: “In my job at a publishing company we often have to create special one-off mini-websites for individual books, book series or for the books by a particular author. These are in addition to the book’s…”
: “Facebook Pages are a recent addition to Facebook, and they’re currently the best way for an artist to promote their artwork on Facebook (better than Facebook Groups, which are an earlier addition). …”
: “I was chatting to a good friend of mine yesterday about business strategies for her music. She’s not planning on chart-topping super-stardom, she just wants to have a plan for getting her…”
: “I’ve written about social networks and their uses before, but I wanted to expand on some of my original thoughts. …”
: “1. Disabling right-clicking …”
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: “I wanted to take a short break from writing long articles to provide a quick list of links to various sites and online tools which can help artists with selling art online. …”
: “OK, read this blog post by Kevin Kelly first. …”
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: “Kentucky-based collage artist Randel Plowman launched a new project back in March 2006. The project—called A Collage A Day—was ambitious to say the least. …”
: “I’m trying to alternate theory with practical examples, and it’s time for a practical example again, this time from my own practice in the world of visual art. …”