Hey all,

This news is a few days old, but thought it would be nice to share with everyone none the less. Artician was reviewed on Web Worker Daily (GigaOM blog site) by Darrel Etherington. He gave an honest review from his standpoint as an existing DeviantART user, and mentioned some great things about Artician. Read up...

http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/02/17/artic...-creative-work/


Because the GigaOM network has become a influential blogging news network, this article was also fed onto:

CNN Money: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom...ative_work.html

Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/web_life...work/index.html

Notice:

Artician will be entering the second phase of promotion at the end of the month. We will be expecting large surges of traffic, and new users to Artician. At that time we will be ready to promote some new Moderators, and create another user status known as "Scouts". Scouts will generally be the "eyes" of Artician, and the primary task of this newly assembled team will to be seek out talented work on Artician, and influence a featured status on submissions. The featured work will ultimately will be reviewed by Admin's and soon probably Mods as well. We will create a dedicated topic for Scouts with more details, so look out for that soon as well. (Just to ensure there is no confusion, the Featured Work system will not be entirely controlled by Scouts, other logical algorithms will play their role as well)

Otherwise, get ready to welcome many more new users and talent to Artician. We also have been busy on some new things, which will be announced in the near future. Artician Pro, and Artician Groups are still under development, but they are both 95% complete. We are just tying em' up, and smoothing little things out.

A small word to the community.."You are awesome!"

Hey everyone,

First off, I'd like to welcome all these wonderful new users around here. It's such a pleasure to see many new faces, and beautiful portfolios.
We are very busy working on some great new features including Artician Groups, and Artician Pro. For this topic, we'd like to get some of your feedback on Artician Pro, so we can truly give what the community wants.



Artician Pro is a subscription based service for $4.95/mo on Artician. It will provide additional features and a more professional mark on your Account. Some of the things included in Artician Pro are:

• No Ads on the site at all, and ads are even removed from your userpage and content when people are viewing.
• Allow users to keep ads, and make money off them new!
• Browse up to 150 submissions per page in Browse sections
• More visitors to your userpage
• Unlimited Access to Pro Resources. (This will be done in the near future when we develop a resources section)
• First notice on Events, Contests and New Features
• Link your own domain to your userpage new!
• Hide network bar to guests (black bar at the top of every page of artician) new!

As of now, these are all the things that we have been able to think of for Artician Pro accounts. We really want to hear your ideas, and what you'd like to have if you were getting a Pro Account. What sort of things would be useful to you as an artist, designer or photographer managing a portfolio. Anything that would help you manage your portfolio, be more professional, or simply make your experience on Artician better.

Any feedback, ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Cmon.. don't hold back, we know your thinking of something, and we're here to listen.

To all those facebook users out there, come join us!

Hey Everyone...

We've got a small feature update to announce! We have just released a nifty little feature that will be extremely useful when browsing work on Artician. You will now notice, when you place your mouse cursor over the thumbnails in browse, or on the homepage, you will see more details smoothly slide up revealing the user who posted it, the category it was posted in, and the date it was uploaded. We may change or add some minimal info to the detail hovers, but you get the gist! View the screenshot below and enjoy! :)

See it in Action

[b][size=3]Help Us Spread the Word![/size][/b]

We are happy to announce that we are finally entering official promotion stages of Artician! As we are eagerly finishing up some of the last features and fixes, we are now ready to give Artician the full attention it deserves on the marketing end.

[b]For those of you who are new to Artician[/b], you should know that it's been a long journey in the development of a perfect place for Artists, Designers, and Photographers, to come and create a fully customizable portfolio that is ideal in many, many ways. Artician gives you the tools you need to harness the benefits of a creative professional social network, along with a powerful portfolio and web presence to promote your work. To learn more, check out the [b][url=http://tour.artician.com]Artician Tour[/url][/b]

[b]For those of you who have been a part of the community[/b], or have been keeping any eye on the development of Artician, you are probably well aware of how much time, effort, and nourishment went into creating what we’d like to call this beast, Artician.

Now, we need your help to provide Artician with the recognition that the rest of the web unknowingly anticipates. For the next few weeks, we are going to be giving it our all in spreading the word about this wonderful place. This includes newsletters, advertising, promotions, link exchanges, public relations, press releases, and social network communication. But in fact, our undoubtedly best weapon in completing this goal is You. The Artician Community can do more than any of the above methods combined, and any help we receive will be recognized and applauded. Please take a moment to see what you can do to help...

[b][size=3]How can you help?[/size][/b]

We are on the hunt for links! We are looking for as many URLs as possible related to Art, Design, Photography, Web Design, or any Creative website to help get the word around. A topic has been started a little while back by Mark Skully dedicated to this. Post up your favorite links! It could be Art Communities, Galleries, Blogs, Personal Portfolios, Social Networks, Resource websites etc. Every link counts! [b][url=http://www.artician.com/forum/Places-to-promote-Artician-t573.html]Post your links here![/url][/b]

[b][size=3]Other ways to support Artician[/size][/b]

[b][size=3]Some Other things to keep in mind... [/size][/b]

Within the next few weeks, we will be scheduling a "Digg it" day. This will be a specified time that we can attempt to make it to the front page of digg, with the help of our community. Please check back soon for postings with detail time and information. Thanks for all the support shown up until this time, and many thanks to our dedicated users who are always there to help.